Project Management Fundamentals for Information Technology Professionals

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Detailed Overview/Outline

This workshop enables you to minimize the all-too-common problems inherent in managing a systems development project. Our approach is comprehensive, practical, and anti-bureaucratic, emphasizing flexibility and participative management. Conducted as a practical, hands-on workshop.

Participants will learn the project management concepts, skills and principles especially needed for success in an IT setting. They will gain the confidence needed to successfully plan and control complex projects and enhancement efforts. Attendees will leave the program with a workable plan of action for managing IT projects effectively – and the skills needed to make the plan succeed.

A number of factors are impacting the project manager’s role within IT – for instance, the need to fully integrate IT into the business improvement process and the advent of distributed technology and Business Process Reengineering. As a result, the range of activities required of a project manager has greatly increased, as well as the range of people with whom he or she interacts.

Who Should Attend
This Project Management workshop is designed to meet the needs of information technology professionals and product managers. It is equally useful for systems and software developers, systems analysts, and IT managers, and business people who are involved in IT projects.

You’ll Learn How to:

• Apply project management principles and techniques
• Identify and manage the critical roles in IT projects – particularly, clients, business partners, project managers, sponsors, steering groups, systems experts, architects, and vendors
• Integrate Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology (based on the SEI Capability Maturity Model)
• Develop useful, practical, and comprehensive project plans, including task analysis (using SDLC templates)
• Plan quality management using checkpoint reviews, quality gates, walk-throughs and inspections, testing and process reviews
• Negotiate realistic project plans
• Integrate objective problem solving
• Plan projects in dynamic multi-project and system support environments
• Assess project risk and contingency
• Identify the principal causes of project slippage in IT projects
• Capture actual performance data (at a reasonable level of detail) with minimal effort
• Create status reports expediently
• Replace authority with accountability

Course Overview

Introduction

• What makes IT projects unique
• Issues and their causes
• Project success and improvement
• Project management process overview

IT Project Life Cycle

• Capability and project management maturity
• Methodology and frameworks
• Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, etc.
• Gates/checkpoints
• Project plan and document templates

Initiating:

• Project selection
• Early involvement
• Kick-off

Scoping: Objectives and Requirements

• Identifying and engaging stakeholders
• Business and project objectives
• Defining scope - disciplined approach
• Prototyping and iterative refinement
• Product vs. project planning

Project Planning

• Negotiating realistic estimates
• Dynamic multi-project planning
• Iterative plan refinement

Planning Steps

• Task Analysis and the WBS
• Estimating effort and duration
• Scheduling - critical path approach
• Allocating and leveling resources
• Risk and contingency management
• Budgeting and cash flow planning

Project Organization

• Roles and responsibilities
• Interdisciplinary team/matrix management
• Authority and accountability
• Managing vendors

Managing the Crucial Resource: People

• Motivation, morale and management style
• Communication management

Project Control - Status and Progress

• Data collection
• Reports and meetings
• Keeping the plan up to date
• Corrective action
• Earned value management
• Change and issues control
• Administration and automation

Quality Assurance and Control

• Tests, reviews and Configuration control
• Process and post-project review

Implementing PM Improvement

• Ongoing improvement program
• Next steps and lessons learned

Closing

• Transition to production
• Lessons learned

Times
Note: This seminar will begin at 8:30 am and end at 4:30 pm daily. Registration begins at 8:00 am on the first day.

Sponsor Background:
International Institute for Learning, Inc. is the world center for The Kerzner Approach to Project Management Excellence and the pre-eminent vendor in Project Management training.

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