NSME PM

WORKSHOP
Session 1: Managing student projects

Facilitator:
Farhan Ellahi

+923217020480
ellahifarhan@hotmail.com
CHECKPOINTS
Demystifying student projects

Intro to Project Management

Dos and donts

Get your thinking
straight

Grades

Career

Learn

Hands-on method

Fun

SMME
 Semester courses
Mimic projects - DIYs

Look around
Search the internet

Ask a teacher
Visit industries

Go to your labs
Competitions
PRACTISE EXERCISE 1
Idea generation
Roam around

Write it down idea + reasons

Discussion
Project team
(resources)

Technically sound

Friends

Variety of skills

Good values

Mentor
INTRO TO PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
Project definition
Parts of a project
Project lifecycle
Pain curve planning
Student projects
SCOPE & WBS
Scope aims & objectives

Tasks

80/8 rule
WBS
PRACTISE EXERCISE 2
Make a work breakdown structure of your project idea
Discussion
SCHEDULING
Estimating duration

Project timeline - Gantt

chart

Critical path

Tracking the schedule

Updating
FYP PROJECT TIMELINE
 HPV PROJECT TIMELINE
CAD and
Simulations
1/31/20
15 Review
Team Desig Final and
Selection
9/1/201 n 1
12/31/20 Design
2/28/20 Finish
3/31/20
4 14 15 15

201 Se Oc No De 201 Fe Ma 201

p t v c 5 b r
4 5
Toda
1. HPV science study y
10/1/2014 -
2. Learning CAD and
11/30/2014
Simulation
3. Designing and
calculations 11/15/2014 -
4. Paper drawings 12/31/2014
and CAD
5. Run basic
simulations 1/1/2015 -
6. Improve the 1/31/2015
design 1
7. Select Materials and
standards
1/15/2015 -
8. Run complex test
2/28/2015
simulations
9. Improve
10. Start design 2 3/1/2015
fabrication -
11. Performance 3/31/201
testing 5
RESOURCE
ALLOCATION
Team member duties

Resources leveling

Cost funding
TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL
PROJECT
Dos Overlook or overkill when
Donts
planning
Spend time on project idea Find a shortcut
Select the right team members
Reinvent the wheel all the time
Document your work
Adjust your friends in the group
Seek help when in trouble
Take too much time making a
Track & share progress
decision
Predict situations Waste resources
Improvise when unexpected appears
Be a workaholic
Learn on job
Be a manager boss
Use common sense
Get disheartened
Incentivize
Go by the books
SURVIVAL
TOOLKIT
Software MS OneNote
Cloud storage
Facebook group

Fund approval

Your best friend

Faculty watch

Getting fast

Online ordering

Data sheet of products

Decision matrix
Work order
ENJOY THE FRUITS
Brag about it

Win prizes

Sustainability

Post project evaluation

Self-evaluation
BONUS QUOTES BY DR.
MUFTI
FAILED PROJECTS
HOME WORK CASE STUDY