Week 2 · 4 h pre-work · 4.5 h applied

Planning Across Approaches

Build a critical-path schedule and a prioritised backlog, then reconcile both into one integrated hybrid plan with a shared budget and reserves.

Story beat

Omar hands you a fixed certification deadline and supplier contract terms. Priya hands you a backlog. Faisal Kim wants one integrated plan and a spend forecast.

Milestone

One integrated Project Guardian plan — baselined hardware schedule, prioritized app backlog, shared budget and reserve plan.

ECO tasks

Process T1, T2, T3, T4, T6, T8; People T8 (communication planning)

Lessons

Pre-work · 50 minIntegrated planning and scope decompositionFrom charter to WBS to backlog — one scope, two decomposition styles.
Pre-work · 50 minResource and financial planning, including reservesEstimating, funding limit reconciliation, contingency vs. management reserve, and who controls each.
Pre-work · 55 minPredictive scheduling: WBS and critical pathDependencies, leads and lags, float, and compressing a schedule that cannot slip.
Pre-work · 50 minAgile planning: backlog, story points, iteration planningRelative estimation, velocity, release planning, and definition of done for an AI model.
Pre-work · 35 minValue-based delivery conceptsMVP, incremental value, benefits realisation, and how sustainability shows up as value.
Applied block · 270 minLive lab: build, then reconcile, one hybrid planCritical-path schedule for hardware, backlog and release plan for the app, reconciliation into one plan, communication strategy workshop, then Graphic-Based + Point-and-Click drills.