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People Oriented Project Management

Spring 2025

Mar 9, 2025

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Apr 13, 2025

Program Pricing: $250 for Erdős Institute Alumni Club Members and $500 for all other academics.

Notes: You do NOT need to be a Spring 2025 Launch Cohort member to register.
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Registration Deadlines

Mar 7, 2025

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Category

Advance, Supplemental, Mini-Course

Overview

The goal with this course is to help participants gain knowledge and techniques that make leading and participating in projects more successful throughout a whole project. When we look at just the project and not the people, even the most carefully planned project can fall apart in a blink. We will examine the basic foundational concepts of project management with an emphasis on leadership, communication, best practices and people skills that will boost trust, morale, and commitment by the humans that make projects happen....successfully.

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Organizers, Instructors, and Advisors

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Lisa Reitz

Lead Instructor

Office Hours:

TBD

Email:

Preferred Contact:

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Objectives

Participants will:
- Develop a general understanding of the project management framework and how process helps lead a team.
- Learn about and apply techniques for positive and impactful interactions within a project team.
- Assess the challenges of people oriented project management and create strategies for successful project completion.
- Understand various techniques to establish and guide a productive and successful project team.
- Develop self-awareness to be a better project leader

What to expect:

The POPM course is primarily asynchronous. Participants use self-guided weekly lecture videos/slides and reading materials. Small teams will work together throughout the course and be tasked with "Weekly Teamwork Assignments." Participants will meet 1x weekly via Zoom to discuss team solutions to the "Weekly Teamwork Assignments" and dig deeper into our own experiences with the course topics. Certain requirements need to be met to receive certification.

Past participants found weekly commitment to be approximately 4-6 hours, including reviewing all lectures and materials, collaborating on the team project and the weekly 45 minute live discussion.

Course Requirements for Certification - To earn certification, workshop participants are required to:
- Weekly: Actively participate with your team in the 4 Weekly Teamwork Assignments (1 per week), submitting them in a timely manner to the designated location.
- At the end of the course: Submit your Collective Weekly Teamwork Assignments (4 total) and Individual Post-Mortems (1 total) during Week 5.
- Teams are responsible to fairly self-report their own and individual team members' active participation each week via the Weekly Teamwork Assignments.
- Participate in a minimum 3 of 5 Video sessions (Kick Off and Weeks 1-4)

First Steps/Prerequisites

The course syllabus contains requirements and the schedule for this 5 week course. Please review and get familiar with this prior to the Kick-Off Live Zoom held on SUNDAY, 3/9/25 @ 6:30pm Eastern Time.
First Steps

Program Content

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Course materials are available on github through the following link:

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Textbook/Notes

Week 1 - Lecture 1

Week 1

Welcome to People Oriented Project Management. Let's get a foundation built by doing a overview of Project Management.

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Week 4 - Lecture 1

Week 4

Project Success even with challenging people on board.

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Week 2 - Lecture 1

Week 2

Enhancing Influence
Building stakeholder relationships

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Week 5 - Lecture 2 (& Assignment Details)

Week 5

Closing the Project / Post-Mortem
Week 5 Personal Action Plan
Week 5 FINAL Assignment Details

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Week 5 - Lecture 1

Week 5

Emotional Intelligence
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Week 3 - Action Plan and Assignment Review

Week 3

Week 3 Personal Action Plan
Week 3 Assignment Overview

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Week 3 - Lecture 1

Week 3

Boosting your Team and Creating a great team environment.

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Week 2 - Lecture 2

Week 2

Developing Relationship Strategies

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Week 2 - Action Plan and Assignment Review

Week 2

Very Brief Recap
Week 2 Personal Action Plan
Week 2 Assignment Overview

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Week 4 - Action Plan and Assignment Review

Week 4

Week 4 Personal Action Plan
Week 4 Assignment Overview

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Week 3 - Lecture 2

Week 3

Improving attitude and performance of your team.

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Week 1 - Lecture 2

Week 1

Managing Process to Lead Teams

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Week 4 - Lecture 2

Week 4

Being touch on people problem withouth being tough on people.

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Week 1 - Action Plan and Assignment Review

Week 1

Very Brief Recap
Week 1 Personal Action Plan
Week 1 Assignment Overview

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Project/Homework Instructions

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Project/Team Formation
Project Submission
Projects README

Schedule

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Course Kick-Off Meeting

Mar 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC

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Week 3 Discussion

Mar 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC

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Week 1 Discussion

Mar 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC

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Week 4 Discussion

Apr 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC

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Week 2 Discussion

Mar 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC

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Please check your registration email for program schedule and zoom links.

Project/Homework Deadlines

Mar 15, 2025

10:00 PM UTC

Week 1 Group Submission Due

Submit to the Google Drive Student Folder

Mar 22, 2025

10:00 PM UTC

Week 2 Group Submission Due

Submit to the Google Drive Student Folder

Mar 29, 2025

10:00 PM UTC

Week 3 Group Submission Due

Submit to the Google Drive Student Folder

Apr 5, 2025

10:00 PM UTC

Week 4 Goup Submission Due

Submit to the Google Drive Student Folder

Apr 14, 2025

03:59 AM UTC

Final Assignment Individual Submission (including the group assignment)

Submit to the Google Drive Student Folder

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