IT Project Management
IT Project Management
OBJECTIVES
- Maintain control of your projects with proven-in-action scheduling techniques
- Deliver quality systems on time
- Achieve leadership skills that really work
- Successfully plan for the unexpected
- Budget more effectively
- Stay on top of schedules and workloads
- Get organizational support
- Keep conflict at a minimum
- Master the do’s and don’ts practiced by successful managers
- Identify the capabilities and limitations of a variety of project management software tools
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- IT project managers
- Team leaders
- Programmers/analysts, systems analysts
- Project office staff members
- Personnel who manage IT projects but are not necessarily IT experts
COURSE OUTLINE
DAY 1
- Characteristics and Success Criteria of a Well-defined IT Project Defining Scope
- Current (“as is”) vs. the future (“to be” situation)
- Using “gap analysis” to prioritise requirements
- Time-cost-scope tradeoffs
- Project Leadership
- The project manager as an effective communicator, motivator and problem solver
DAY 2
- The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- WBS: from high-level strategy to detailed work packages
- Matching project objectives and methodology
DAY 3
- Project Scheduling: Network Logic and Dependency Analysis
- Network diagram – precedence diagramming – arrow diagramming
- Dependency relationships
- Defining the project’s critical path, free float and total float
- Estimating Uncertainty in IT Projects
- Creating realistic estimates for each work package
DAY 4
- The Integrated Project Plan
- Gantt Chart, network diagram or spreadsheet?
- Project cost or budget plan?
- Project management software examples
DAY 5
- Project Control and Reporting
- Five sources of change to project scope
- How to conduct a net impact assessment
- Reporting project status and formats
- Establishing Project Closure
- Securing final approvals and buy-ins
- Organizational, contractual and financial closures
- Includes IT-focused Case Studies