1. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Above two images from Wikipedia.com

2. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Visual organizers let you use pictures to organize concepts. These are two examples, but there are many other types of charts.

3. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Example: Fishbone from reading for Thursday
Stakeholders
Team Leaders
Process
People
Managing the project
Product
Project

4. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Example: Concept Map for Reading for Thursday
Objectives
People
Product
Project Management
Track Progress
Project
Process

5. These tools can be used for learning
Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
These tools can be used for learning
These tools can also be used for design or brainstorming
UML diagrams are often used to visualize a design

6. Terminology Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Terminology
Activity – Something we need to do. Activities have duration
Milestone – Completion of an activity. It is a single point.
All activities and milestones comprise the project.
Deliverable – The product of an activity. Delivery of a deliverable
is often a milestone.
Work breakdown structure – Describes each activity and milestone
in a project and includes relationships among the activities.
Precursor - Something that must be done before the current activity
can begin.
Due Date – The date that a milestone or activity is due to end.
Duration – The amount of time that the activity will take to
accomplish.
Activity Graph – A visual chart of the activities, durations and
dependencies.

7. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Activity – Building a house
Critical Path Management
Model – circles are the milestones
Given the time estimates, how long will this job take to complete?
Given the calculation of time, what is the critical path?
Given the critical path, how much “slack time” is there in the jobs not on the critical path? (Slack time is the available time – the time it takes to complete.)

8. Activity – Managing the project The critical path tells us … what?
Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Activity – Managing the project
The critical path tells us … what?
Scenarios – what happens if….?
AFUEWS – Allowance for unexpected events within scope. (Wiggle room).

9. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Another tool – GANTT chart
From (really) GANTTchart.com/history
Bar chart to provide a visual mechanism for tracking progress on projects. Originally used in large construction projects.
Dependencies are stated as start to start, start to finish, and finish to finish.
Typically in most software, you can get information from the task performers and plug that into the software to continually evaluate where we stand on a project.
See demo of MS Project – as one tool for producing GANTT charts (available through the MSDN Alliance…windows machines only).

10. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Scope
Quality
Budget
Schedule

11. What features should it have?
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Tools for Risk Mitigation
Our voting system
What features should it have?
What major tasks should the work breakdown structure have?
How are these related (dependencies)?

12. Tools for Visualization
Tools for Managing the Project
Tools for Risk Mitigation
Author web site provides lots of checklists.
Example of Risk Analysis checklist.
What are some of the risks you can foresee in this
project?