801 Accurate Project Estimating Enabled with Scope Management
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Friday, October 2
Management
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Anyone still struggling with learning projects or courses that exceed schedule, budget, or that do not meet audience objectives needs to understand project-scope management. This project management key knowledge area is often overlooked. However the planning, monitoring, and controlling processes involved are critical to ensuring your projects deliver the required results, on time, and on budget.
In this session you will learn the processes, tools, and techniques available to quickly and accurately collect stakeholder requirements. You will learn how to reach agreement on the scope of a learning project, and how to deconstruct the project work for the transparency and visibility required to develop reliable project time and cost estimates.
In this session, you will learn:
- The components of a good scope-management plan
- How to adequately identify requirements and document objectives and agreements
- How to decompose projects into manageable work packages
- Techniques to monitoring and validating projects and prevent scope creep
- Techniques for estimating project time and costs
Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers,
and managers.
Technology
discussed in this session:
Work breakdown structure (WBS) templates.
Sherrie Dotson
Manager, Technical Learning
Intel Security
Sherrie Dotson is manager of technical learning at Intel Security, an Intel business unit. An advocate of realizing potential though lifelong learning, she has designed and implemented global learning solutions for over 20 years. Her expertise covers the total array of learning and development roles with an emphasis on technical product training. Prior to joining Intel Security six years ago, Sherrie held leadership positions at several major technology companies including as an advanced services education team lead at Cisco Systems, manager of training and publications at InterVoice, and product marketing manager at Alcatel USA. Sherrie holds both an MSc degree and a PMP certification.
