Study Notes
One page per lecture, written for revision rather than delivery. Each summarises what the lecture argued, in its order, and links to the handbook pages that carry the detail and the sources. Read one before a quiz or a case, or after missing the session.
- SN L1a — The Technical Person: personality, culture, communication, motivation, leadership.
- SN L1b — Teams and Decisions: team formation, psychological safety, social loafing, deciding.
- SN L2a — Process and Lifecycles: defined process, ETVX, measurement, the lifecycle models.
- SN L2b — Frameworks and Choosing: agile, XP, Scrum, Kanban, scaling, RUP, choosing.
- SN L3a — Customer Expectations: perception, Kano, success and its threshold, stakeholders, involvement.
- SN L3b — Requirements Engineering: elicitation, testable statements, change, requirements with LLMs.
- SN L3c — Risk Management: finding, writing, ranking and tracking risks, and the Comair case.
- SN L4a — Work Breakdown Structure: the 100% rule, orientation, product plus enabling work, building, rolling wave, keeping it alive.
- SN L4b — Estimation: sizing, judgment, Planning Poker, models, combining.
- SN L5a — Planning and Milestones: coordination, predictive and agile plans, milestones.
- SN L5b — Activities, Critical Path and Critical Chain: networks, float, late schedules, critical chain.
- SN L6a — Release Planning: prioritising, Buffered MoSCoW, contracts and incentives.
- SN C1 — Structured Communication: the Minto pyramid from the C1 recitation. Read it before any case presentation or report.
Revision questions for the same material are under Revision Questions.
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Table of contents
- SN L1a — The Technical Person
- SN L1b — Teams and Decisions
- SN L2a — Process and Lifecycles
- SN L2b — Frameworks and Choosing
- SN C1 — Structured Communication
- SN L3a — Customer Expectations
- SN L3b — Requirements Engineering
- SN L3c — Risk Management
- SN L4a — Work Breakdown Structure
- SN L4b — Estimation
- SN L5a — Planning and Milestones
- SN L5b — Activities, Critical Path and Critical Chain
- SN L6a — Release Planning
- SN L6b — Tracking, Reporting and Controlling