François Chung, Ph.D.

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Project planning and management

Project planning and management

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Coursera training, MOOC (2017). Given online by the University of Virginia (US), this training introduces the key concepts of planning, executing and managing various types of projects. Every organization runs projects, formally or informally. Project management provides organizations and individuals with the language and methodologies for scoping projects, identifying dependencies, sequencing activities, utilizing resources and minimizing risks.

Week 1: Welcome to the world of projects

Main topics:

  • Organization and stakeholders;
  • Project success and failure;
  • Project life-cycle.

Week 2: The ins and outs of project planning

Main topics:

  • Detailed scoping;
  • Identifying dependencies;
  • Completion date and critical path.

Week 3: It’s a risky world

Main topics:

  • Assessing project risks;
  • Cost risk analysis;
  • Planning for ambiguity.

Week 4: Project execution

Main topics:

  • From plan to action;
  • Earned value;
  • Agile, Scrum and Kanban.

Reference

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Coursera

Introduction to Scrum

Introduction to Scrum

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iLean training, Belgium (2015). This classroom training introduces Scrum, which is an iterative and incremental software development methodology used for product development. This training, which combines theoretical concepts, practical exercises, games, discussions and real-life examples, explains how Scrum maximises product value, while minimizing software development-related risks, by iteratively delivering small increments to allow fast feedback.

Day 1: General introduction

Main topics:

  • Adaptive approach;
  • Scrum methodology;
  • Sprint: planning, review and retrospective;
  • Product backlog;
  • Kaizen approach: inspect and adapt;
  • Planning poker.

Day 2: Product Owner

Main topics:

  • Estimating and planning;
  • Expectation and feedback;
  • Swarm intelligence;
  • T-shape profiles;
  • Story mapping;
  • Large Scale Scrum (LeSS).

References

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Scrum
iLean

Introduction to operations management

Introduction to operations management

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Coursera training, MOOC (2015). Given online by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (US), this training introduces the management skills required to run operations (e.g. to run a restaurant or a hospital). Specifically, the training explains how to improve productivity, increase responsiveness, provide more choice to the customer and deliver higher quality standards. The aim is to provide strategic analyses and solutions to improve business processes.

Module 1: Process analysis

Main topics:

  • Find a bottleneck;
  • Compute throughput;
  • Apply Little’s Law;
  • Compute inventory turns;
  • Deal with multiple flow units.

Module 2: Productivity

Main topics:

  • Understand the sources of waste;
  • Balance a line and compute Takt time;
  • Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) analysis;
  • Key Performance Indicator (KPI) tree.

Module 3: Variety

Main topics:

  • Determine the impact of set-ups on capacity;
  • Analyze set-ups;
  • Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED);
  • Strategies to deal with variety;
  • Limitations to variety.

Module 4: Responsiveness

Main topics:

  • Waiting time analysis;
  • Map out the customer journey;
  • Predict customer loss rates.

Module 5: Quality

Main topics:

  • Analyze processes with yield losses;
  • Toyota production system;
  • Six Sigma;
  • Statistical Process Control (SPC).

Reference

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Coursera

Sustainable development: issues and paths

Sustainable development: issues and paths

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UL training, MOOC (2015). Given online by Université Laval (UL), this training provides the main keys to understand the concept of sustainable development in order to promote active participation in debates and actions for transition to its implementation. The training explains the basic concepts of environmental, social and economic issues related to the development, while taking into account the diversity of discourses and the complexity of issues.

Module 1: Greatness and misery of development in the 20th century

Main topics:

  • The industrious years;
  • Stockholm Conference;
  • Brundtland Report.

Module 2: Ethics, environment and development

Main topics:

  • Ethics of sustainable development;
  • Limits and precaution;
  • Ecocentric ethics.

Module 3: A garbage atmosphere

Main topics:

  • Low-altitude pollution;
  • Depletion of the ozonosphere;
  • Climatic changes.

Module 4: A twisted hydrosphere

Main topics:

  • Assimilative capacity;
  • Biogeochemical cycles;
  • Sampling volume.

Module 5: A humanized biosphere

Main topics:

  • Ocean acidification;
  • Expansion of agricultural land;
  • Biodiversity loss.

Module 6: Footprints and paths

Main topics:

  • Population;
  • Consumption;
  • Technology;
  • End of the linear economy.

Module 7: Complexity, vision and commitment

Main topics:

  • Complexity;
  • Pragmatism of targets;
  • Measures of happiness;
  • Collective actions.

Reference

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UL – Université Laval

Sustainability in practice

Sustainability in practice

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Coursera training, MOOC (2015). Given online by The School of Design (PennDesign) of the University of Pennsylvania (US), this training provides an introduction to the ideas and practices that people are using to understand and change connections, including connections across time, that create systems that are greater than the simple sums of their parts, with consequences that are often unexpected. The objective is to pursue more sustainable processes and communities.

Week 1: Connections

Main topics:

  • Climate change;
  • Brundtland Report;
  • Systems thinking;
  • Design thinking;
  • Sketching.

Week 2: Allocation

Main topics:

  • Efficiency;
  • Natural capital;
  • Externality;
  • Lifecycle accounting.

Week 3: Resilience

Main topics:

  • Climate change;
  • Adaptability, transformability and diversity;
  • Collaboration.

Week 4: Emergence

Main topics:

  • Complex systems;
  • Informal settlements;
  • Computational models;
  • Innovation.

Week 5: Jurisdiction

Main topics:

  • Carbon Tracker;
  • Confirmation bias;
  • Product-service system.

Week 6: Performance

Main topics:

  • Benchmarking;
  • Energy efficiency;
  • Awareness raising;
  • Big data.

Week 7: Disruption

Main topics:

  • Disruptive innovation;
  • Integrated design;
  • Triple bottom line.

Reference

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Coursera

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