About Workshop
Course Overview
Do you manage your projects or do they manage you? Sometimes it seems easier to herd cats than to get IT projects done successfully! Your success in the modern workplace depends on your projects being executed within the triple constraints: on time, within budget, and within scope. Your ability to balance these cornerstones of the project reflects your ability to manage not only the hard skills (your IT technical expertise), but also the soft skills (people, team, project sponsor, and vendor management). Failure to achieve these ends can and has driven companies out of business. This workshop is designed specifically to teach you how to cope with the unique characteristics of IT projects from understanding the basic principles of project management tools to managing all the people that will be involved in the success of the project. At the end of this workshop, you will have the fundamental knowledge required to professionally manage IT projects.
Workshop topics to be covered:
Overview
- Why our projects in IT are different
- The triple constraints that affect every project
- Project phases
- The essential skills required to make you a great project manager
Getting the Project Started
- Identifying the stakeholders and their needs
- List the business requirements
- Determine the systems requirements
- Identify the key roles and responsibilities
- Create a project charter and define the project scope
Project Plans, Estimates and Schedules
- The elements of the planning process
- How to create a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Creating the effort, time, and cost estimates
- Putting the project team together
- Creating a schedule
Plans for All the Other Stuff
- Communication and resource planning
- Procurement and vendor management planning
- Risk and quality management planning
- The comprehensive project plan
Keeping Everyone on Track
- Managing the Project Team
- Managing client relations
Managing Cost and Project Performance
- Identify project-tracking tools
- Evaluate and measure project performance
- Compare actual expenditures to the budgeted amounts
Dealing with Project Change(s)
- Manage change
- Manage resources and quality
The End (of this project)
- Project review
- Boss debriefing
- Contract closure
- Team debriefing
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