Materials for a Course on Basic Project Management

The contents of this repository describe the outline for a course on basic project management. There are three document sets each described in the following sections.

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What's in This Repository?

Project plan

The project plan ./documents/plan/project_plan.md is the primary planning document for the project.

Risk Management Plan

The risk management plan ./documents/risk/risk_management_plan.md is gives an overview of things that can go wrong in a project and how to handle things when they do go wrong.

Project Schedule

The project schedule ./documents/schedule/schedule.md gives a list of all tasks involved with project competition.

Course Design Documents

The course design ./course_planning/course_design.md contains the overall course goals as well as per week outlines of the course content.

Example Project Plan

The contents of ./example are a sample example plan created for a hypothetical birdhouse building project.

[!NOTE] This example plan is not perfect. You should think about this example as a step below a "minimum" quality for a project plan. Content written here should serve to inform the essence of what should go in each section.

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Citations

1. Boehm, B. W. (1989). Software risk management. IEEE Computer Society Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=ittWAAAAMAAJ
2. Col Lawrence Nixon. (n.d.). RISK MANAGEMENT (RM) GUIDELINES AND TOOLS. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE.
3. Garvey, P. R. (2008). Analytical Methods for Risk Management (0 ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420011395
4. Internationale Elektrotechnische Kommission & Internationale Organisation für Normung (Eds.). (2019). Risk management: Risk assessment techniques (Edition 2.0). IEC Central Office, Commission Electrotechnique Internationale.
5. Pressman, R. S. (2015). Software engineering: A practitioner's approach (Eighth edition). McGraw-Hill Education.
6. Thomsett, R. (1992). The Indiana Jones School of Risk Management. American Programmer, 5(7), 10-18.
7. Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2008). Understanding by design (Expanded 2nd ed, [Nachdr.]). Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
8. Williams, R. C., Walker, J. A., & Dorofee, A. J. (1997). Putting risk management into practice. IEEE Software, 14(3), 75-82. https://doi.org/10.1109/52.589240
9. Yourdon, E. (1995). When good enough software is best. IEEE Software, 12(3), 79-81. https://doi.org/10.1109/52.382191

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Materials for a Course on Teaching Undergraduate Research by Joseph Starr and Lori Adams is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0