About Workshop
Today’s IT projects present unique challenges to the project manager, requiring coordination with many stakeholders and integration of various technological capabilities. In this comprehensive introductory course, you’ll discover critical success factors and hidden risks inherent in IT projects and you’ll leave with an understanding of strategies and techniques developed in the field by experienced IT project managers for successfully managing IT projects. IT means different things to different people.
This course addresses all areas of IT project management: hardware, software, systems integration, communications and human resources. It addresses the role of the project manager and the project team at each phase of the project life cycle, helping you gain the foundation, basic experience, techniques and tools to manage each stage of your project. You’ll learn techniques to determine customer requirements, set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs, get the most from your project management team, and utilize project management tools to get work done on time and within budget. By extending traditional project management concepts into the IT arena, this course will help you gain an understanding of the strategies and skills necessary to manage IT projects of any size.
You’ll take home powerful tools to enhance your IT project management capabilities, as well as written text in your course binder explaining the concepts in each unit for reference when you return to the workplace. You’ll learn IT project management skills through hands-on exercises, interactive case studies and relevant discussions with your peers and an experienced IT project management instructor.
Workshop topics to be covered:
1st session:
- Definition and characteristics of IT project management
- Common reasons why IT projects fail
- Critical factors for IT project success
- The IT project life cycle and the activities of each life cycle phase
- Project processes common to all projects
2nd session:
- Define the role of the IT project manager
- Develop a results-driven project management team
- Identify, interpret, and manage the real project requirements
- Case Study
3rd session:
- Develop a focused project plan to manage IT projects
- Estimate IT project costs and schedules using proven techniques
- Find solutions to problems specifically related to IT projects
- Case Study
4th session:
- IT Project and Risk management
- IT Project and Change management
- IT Project and Quality management
- IT Project Management and Certifications
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