Workshop title: Project Management for the Resource-Challenged

Brief Abstract:

In this session we will cover enough of project management basics as outlined by the Project Management Institute, so that managers will have a working sense of the "Project Management Lifecycle," as well as an understanding of critical areas such as communication planning and risk management. This workshop will cover managing several types of projects from building exhibits (or new exhibit halls) to developing software with a special focus on the latest trends in Agile development – the idea that many types of development work best when done in short, iterative cycles.

This is a reprise of last year's "Project Management 'On One Foot'" workshop with additional focus on Agile project development methodologies and tools. Participants (as well as graduates of last year's workshop) interested in getting more of a "hands-on" feel for Agile Development as it relates to website development should also consider the complementary afternoon workshop, "Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Website Development."

Slides:

Are now available on slideshare. They can also be discovered using the tag "mcn2010".

http://www.slideshare.net/aridavidow/adavidow-projmgm

Abstract:

Over and over again projects go over budget, under-deliver on scope, and fail to be ready on time. Professional project management provides tools to control the process, ensuring that projects are defined so that they may be planned, executed, and controlled with problems dealt with as they arise, thus ensuring that the project manager – and his or her superiors – is never surprised, and finally, at closing, useful lessons are learned and recorded.

In this session we will cover enough of project management basics as outlined by the Project Management Institute, so that managers will have a working sense of the "Project Management Lifecycle," as well as an understanding of critical areas such as communication planning and risk management. This workshop will cover managing several types of projects from building exhibits (or new exhibit halls) to developing software with a special focus on the latest trends in Agile development – the idea that many types of development work best when done in short, iterative cycles.

This is a reprise of last year's "Project Management 'On One Foot'" workshop with additional focus on Agile project development methodologies and tools. Participants (as well as graduates of last year's workshop) interested in getting more of a "hands-on" feel for Agile Development as it relates to website development should also consider the complementary afternoon workshop, "Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Website Development."

Session Info:

• Type: Half Day Workshop
• Keywords: agile, agile project management, pmi, intro
• Relevance: People responsible for delivering projects as diverse as new physical exhibits or new websites in libraries, archives, and museums.

Instructors:

Alon Salant

Principal

Carbon Five

171 2nd Street 4th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94105

http://www.carbonfive.com

Alon Salant is a founder and owner of Carbon Five, a software development firm dedicated to delivering high value software through an agile collaboration with its clients. Alon has over ten years experience delivering web applications for startups and large institutions. His areas of expertise include Agile Coaching, software design, automated testing and rubber-hits-the-road software development. He has written articles and book contributions for O'Reilly and spoken at SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, JavaOne, CodeCon and Bay Area user groups on technology and process topics. He is also an avid cyclist, surfer, bicycle mechanic and urban gardner. He holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dana Mitroff Silvers

Head of Online Services

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

151 Third Street

San Francisco, CA  94103

http://www.sfmoma.org

Dana has worked on the design and production of large-scale, educational websites since the early days of HTML. Among the sites she has worked on are the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley Interactive University project, and Computer Curriculum Corporation. Dana led the multi-year redesign of sfmoma.org, and oversees all aspects of the public-facing SFMOMA website. She is on the international program committee of Museums and the Web and presents regularly at that conference, and has also presented at the annual meetings of the Museum Computer Network, American Association of Museums, IMLS Web Wise, and the National Museum Publishing Seminar. Dana has taught and lectured at both the undergraduate and graduate-level for numerous Bay Area institutions, including the University of San Francisco and JFK University. Dana holds an MA in art history from the University of Chicago and a BA in journalism from the University of Southern California.