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IT Project Management (PM07)
Duration : 3 days Contact Hours : 21    
       
Course Mode
Lectures, Exercises, Group Discussions, Presentations, Role Plays, Assessments
       
Target Audience
Middle Managers, Project Managers, Project / Team Leaders who are involved in IT Projects
       
Benefits
  • Understand and apply Project Management concepts, skills and principles needed in an IT project (moulded around PMBOK®)
  • How to plan and control complex projects
  • Learn about stakeholders, including customers of a project, and how to communicate with them
  • Develop a concrete plan to implement projects
       
Course Overview
Why projects fail
Critical success factors
Best practices of Project Management: PMI® and the Project Management Knowledge Areas
Project Life Cycle versus Project Management Life Cycle
Types of IT projects
IT Project Life Cycle
Project Planning
Work Breakdown Structure, Well Defined Scope (Requirements), Design Specifications, Estimation Methods
Development of Project Schedules: Network Diagrams, Critical Path, Floats
Resource Planning: Profiling and Selection, resource sharing, resource assignment
Quality Planning: the various processes and tests involved in the various IT projects, including Infrastructure, Software Implementation, Data Conversion
Cost Planning: Materials, Human Resources, Equipment
Identify and plan for Change Management
Risk Planning
Stakeholder Mapping and Communication Plan
Procurement Planning
Execution and various controls: how and when to implement
Manage the triple constraints of a project
Performance Indicators set up at various stages
Monitoring project through performance indicators
Communication processes: e.g. meetings
Execution for various projects
Regularly mitigate risks and monitor possible new risks
Change Request and Configuration Management
Managing styles
Getting the best out of people
Conflict Management
Soft Skills required
Post Project Review
Sharing Lessons Learned