DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
2 DAY WORKSHOP COURSE
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Take control of your projects today and avoid common pitfalls!
In today's high-paced, multi-tasked business environment, coordinating your projects has become not only necessary, but critical to the success of your organization. Keeping projects on schedule and on budget is more crucial than ever. Project managers are increasingly asked to juggle competing demands on the project's schedule, budget and threats to creating quality deliverables.
This two-day interactive workshop will give you the tools you need
This highly interactive, case study driven workshop will provide participants with a strong foundation in the discipline of project management. By applying newly acquired skills and knowledge, students will be able to immediately ‘take action’ to influence their project results upon their return to work.
This course is aligned with the PMBOK®
This course is completely aligned with the Project Management Institute's Body of Knowledge and is a great introduction to those looking to get certified.
Only taught by a PMP-Certified Instructor
This course is only presented by PMP-Certified Instructors with recent real-world experience. You will leave with numerous tools and templates you can integrate into your workplace immediately.
This class covers projects of any type
Whether your projects involve hardware, software, systems integration or communications, we'll address the role of project manager through each phase of the life cycle.
Practical, Immediately Useful Benefits of Attending:
- Apply industry-recognized project management best practices
- Identify key stakeholders and better negotiate your accountability as the project manager
- Build Project Charters, Gantt Charts, Work Breakdown Structures and Network Diagrams
- Effectively manage competing interests of stakeholders so that your project meets the common thread of “company needs” AND is on time, under budget
- Build a plan…and stick with it!
- More accurately predict estimates
- Influence people without formal authority - a key skill for getting things done correctly and within the right timeframe
- Identify risks before the project is derailed
- Realistically report project status
- Communicate and manage change as it occurs – not after the fact, when its detrimental effects have already wreaked havoc on your project
- Manage the project successfully using time-tested techniques and strategies
- Understand the softer side of project management
- Learn to take control of your schedule and resources in order to focus projects and drive them efficiently
- Capture the real requirements
- Build strong relationships and real partnerships with your stakeholders
- More accurately estimate costs for better end results
- Get buy-in and lock in support from senior management
Course Outline
- What can project management do for me?
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. Learn why it is so critical to perform this task effectively.
- PM 101
- PMI and Certification
- Process groups
- Knowledge areas
- PMP
- Project management as a business strategy
- The role of the project manager
- Managing projects in organizations
- Challenges of Managing Projects
There are many challenges unique to managing projects, including competing technical and business demands, seemingly endless business reengineering and increased responsibility and accountability created through downsizing, outsourcing and increased accountability. What can you do about it?
- Why do projects fail? Why do they succeed?
- Outsourcing is a reality - but project management is here to stay
- Project management success factors
- Project management and the development life cycle
- Initiating the Project
A good start is integral to the success of any project. Get off on the right foot by aligning with the appropriate strategy and getting buy-in from the right people.
- Identifying the project
- Project selection criteria
- Aligning projects with business goals
- Stakeholders
- The“people side” of project management
- Requirements
- Objectives
- Deliverables
Course Outline Continued...
- The business case
- Scoping
- The Project Charter
- The Scope Statement
- Project Planning
The actual plan is the essential tool to success; without it you have nothing. Learn to integrate the scope, resource management, risk, quality, cost, procurement, schedule, and communications plan into your day-to-day realities. - Task/activity analysis
- Components of the plan
- WBS
- Schedule
- Control plans
- Communicating the plan
- The Critical Path
- Estimating Project Costs and Schedules
Even with a good plan, competing demands inevitably pull the project manager in many directions. Arm yourself with tools to make these challenging situations easier.
- Estimating
- Negotiating
- Planning for quality
- Charts, diagrams and histograms
- Budgeting
- Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
- Risk assessment and management
- Managing vendors
- Mitigating quality trade-offs
- Execution - Putting the Plan in Motion
Getting it done is a success. It can be a challenge to work the plan and handle curveballs. Learn to manage your team and the plan to accomplish your goals.
- The project organization
- Team building
- Leadership and motivation
- Tracking Progress
- Communication
- Quality Assurance
- Dealing with conflict
- Taking Control of the Project
Changes, challenges and the unexplained inevitably creep into projects. Learn how you can control their effect on your project. - Data collection
- Managing and reporting status
- Taking corrective action
- Information distribution
- Earned value management
- Change management
- Quality
- Scope verification
- Completing the Project On Time/On Budget
At the end of any job, look back and see what you could do better next time. But - most importantly, celebrate the end of the project. - Transition to production
- Customer acceptance strategies
- Contract closeout
- Lessons learned
- Celebrate
- What's next
- Next Steps to Grow as a Project Manager
So you want to do more... - Professional Responsibility
- Careers in project management
- Becoming recognized as a Project Management Professional
- Resources
- Project Managers
- Technical/Non-technical Managers
- Business Analysts
- Developers
- Programmers
- Software Developers
- Consultants
- Executives
- Team Leaders
- Everyone involved in software development
- Understand the project management framework and learn to relate it to your workplace immediately
- Identify the critical success factors
- Manage risks and build contingency plans
- Relate project management principles to your business
- Learn to take control of your schedule and resources
- Understand the softer side of project management
- Capture the real requirements
- Build strong relationships and real partnerships with your stakeholders
- More accurately estimate costs
- Get buy-in from the start...lock in support from senior management
TARGET AUDIENCE
This workshop is designed for information technology professionals who want to learn more about the language, tools and basics of project management. This course is a MUST for:
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