Course Outline
Pre-Requisites
None; Do not take this course if you have taken Project Management
Lessons
Learn the fundamentals and best practices of project management methodology as applied to IT initiatives, and practice and master the skills you need to deliver IT projects on time, within budget, and to specification.Examine all aspects of IT projects, including hardware, software, vendor relationships, communicating with different audiences, and working with local and remote teams. Learn to determine project scope, set and manage stakeholder expectations, identify and manage IT risks, and meet quality standards. Learn how to overcome the most common pitfalls of IT project success.
Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.
Who Needs to Attend
- IT Professionals
- IT Project Managers
- IT Managers
- IT Project Team Members
- Associate Project Managers
- Project Managers
- Project Coordinators
- Project Analyst
- Project Leaders
- Senior Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Product Managers
- Program Managers
- Examine the IT project life cycle
- Understand project management methodologies
- Build an IT project business case, schedule, and budget
- Estimate IT project costs
- Procure human and capital resources
- Understand typical risks for IT projects
- Identify, assess, and manage risk
- Establish quality metrics
- Monitor project progress
- Create Business Case
- Identify the Stakeholders
- Establish Project Mini-Charter
- Develop Work Breakdown Structure
- Create Network Diagram and Critical Path
- Estimate Schedule and Budget
- Identifying Resource Requirements
- Creating Resource Calendar
- Establish Risk Management Plan and Matrix
- Create Risk Response Strategies
- Create Communication Plan
- Inform Stakeholders through Status Reports
- Using a Decision Tree to Select Vendors
- Analyze Contract Types for Deliverables
- Manage Change Control
- Create Final Project Report
1. IT Project Failure and Success
- Reasons for IT Project Failure
- Reasons for IT Project Success
- How to Plan for IT Project Success
- IT Projects: What Makes Them Different?
- Project Management Institute's (PMI) framework
- Project Management Basics
- Project Management Life Cycle
- Project Management Knowledge Areas
- Triple Constraints of Project Management
- Types of Project Organizations
- Project Selection and Prioritization
- Business Case Development
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Project Charter
- Project Objectives
- Constraints and Assumptions
- Scope Statement
- Requirements: Defining and Gathering
- Identifying requirements
- Approaches to elicit requirements
- Functional vs. technical requirements
- Requirements traceability
- Work Breakdown Structure
- Identifying tasks and activities
- WBS dictionary
- Activity Definition
- Activity Sequencing
- Estimating Activity Duration
- PERT
- Network Diagramming
- Critical Path
- Float and Lag
- Identify Required Project Resources
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Resource Assignment Matrix
- Staffing Management
- Resource Constraints
- Cost Estimating Techniques
- Types of Estimates
- Contingency and Management Reserves
- Typical IT Expenditures
- Controlling and Managing Costs
- Earned Value Analysis
- Manage Stakeholder Expectations
- Considerations for Effective Communication
- Communication Management Plan
- Project Status Report
- Risk Sources for the IT Project
- Stakeholder Risk Tolerance
- Risk Identification
- Risk Ranking
- Risk Triggers
- Risk Response Strategies
- Role of the Project Manager in Procurement
- Build or Buy
- Build or Buy
- Sourcing Management
- Procurement Life Cycle
- Procurement Documents
- Contract Requirements and Legal Terms
- Contract Types
- Stage-Gate
- Organizational Project Management Maturity Model
- Critical Chain
- IT Project Management Methodologies
- Extreme Project Management
- Waterfall
- Rapid Application Development
- Rational Unified Model
- Capability Maturity Model Integrated
- Causes of Change
- Change Control Framework
- Integrated Change Control
- Change Control Process
- Change Control Tools
- Creating Project Quality
- Quality Management Theories
- Quality Tools and Techniques
- IT Project Testing
- Contract Closeout
- Administrative Closure
- Lessons Learned
- Phase and Project Reports
Cancellation Policy
We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted. Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.
Training Location
Online Classroom
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your city,
your province
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I would never take another course that starts at 11AM and goes to 9PM again. The way the course was laid out really took away from the capturing of what was presented as it was 5-6 hours of watching a screen before getting to the actual labs. There has to be a better way to lay out this particular course. In my previous course, the lectures were broken up by labs which worked out fantastic and kept you engaged in the course. There were days when in order to actually complete the labs, would go over the 9PM day end time frame. Was able to get the primary labs done, but if you want to get all the content completed, you cannot complete it in the window of this course, you will need to come back on your own time.