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Project Management Fundamentals for IT Professional
...Developed for Information Technology Environments
A number of factors impact the new project manager’s within IT,
for instance, the need to fully integrate IT into the business
improvement process and the advent of distributed technology
process and Business Process Reengineering. As a result, the
range of activities required of a new project manager has
greatly increased, as well as the range of people with whom he
or she interacts. This workshop enables you to minimize the
problems inherent in managing a systems development project.
Prerequisite
An understanding of the project management approach
Course Level
Foundational/Intermediate
Duration
3 Days
Who should attend?
- Information Technology professionals who want to take up
Project lead and team lead roles
- Product managers
- System and software developers, systems analyst, and IT
managers
- Business people who are involved in IT projects
Performance Focus
- Practical, systematic approach to managing IT projects
along with the project management skills and concepts
- Realistic planning and control, along with other project
management activities minimize the probability of project
failure
- You will leave the program with workable plan of action
for managing IT projects effectively –and all necessary
skills needed to make the plan succeed
What You Will Learn
You'll learn how to:
- Take a more disciplined, yet flexible approach to
managing different types of IT projects
- Identify and describe the critical roles and
responsibilities of IT project stakeholder
- Initiate and plan an IT project using objective setting,
risk management and scheduling techniques
- Recognize the advantages and disadvantages among the
range of software development life cycle models used on IT
projects
- Integrate improved vendor relationships practices into
the execution
- Perform the major activities of IT project control and
closure
- Identify effective communication; team building and
relationship concepts that can improve IT project
- Recognize the quality and cultural change issues
inherent in implementing IT project management
Content
Basic Outline of the course:
Foundation Concepts
Key terms and definitions
The project management process
IT project success factors
Process maturity: CMMI, KPM2, and OPM3
Methodologies and IT project life cycles
Project Originating and Initiating
Originating IT projects
Initiating IT projects
Distinguishing between business and project objectives
Assessing merits and/or shortcomings of business and project
objectives
Getting stakeholder involvement
Scope, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
and Requirements
Scope and progressive elaboration
WBS
Requirements definition
Success factors
Planning and Estimating
Project planning overview
Estimating best practices
IT project schedule estimates
IT project cost estimates & useful techniques
Common estimating techniques
Project scheduling
The IT project scheduling process
Network diagrams
Resource loading & leveling
Critical path method and Gantt chart view
Schedule optimization |
Executing
Project execution overview
Executing with IT specific PLCs
Transitioning from PLCs to IT service management
Executing IT projects with external vendors
Monitoring and Controlling
Project monitoring and control overview
Project reporting
Understanding variance
Using Earned Value Management (EVM)
Integrated change control for IT projects
Project Risk Management
Defining the project risk management process
Planning for project risk management
Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis
Risk response planning
Risk monitoring and control
HR & Communications Management
Organization/team structures
Human Resources
Planning and acquisition
Team development and management
Communications Planning and distributing
Developing effective skills for managing stakeholders
Project Closing
Project closure overview
Project deployment
Project evaluations
Project knowledge management |
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