MANAGING IT PROJECTS

OBJECTIVE

Managing IT Projects workshop is designed for business professionals who coordinate or manage small-to-medium-size projects. This workshop will ensure participants gain knowledge and skills required to manage the project life cycle, coordinate small-to-medium-size projects, ensure appropriate communication, manage resources and stakeholders, maintain project documentation and support the completion of larger projects.

CONTENT

Project Basics

• Summarize the properties of a project
• Classify project roles and responsibilities
• Compare and contrast standard project phases
• Identify the basics of project cost control
• Identify common project team organizational structures
• Execute and develop project schedules
• Identify the basic aspects of the Agile methodology
• Explain the importance of human resource, physical resource and personnel management

Project Constraints

• Predict the impact of various constraint variables and influences throughout the project
• Explain the importance of risk strategies and activities

Communication & Change Management

• Use the appropriate communication method
• Compare and contrast factors influencing communication methods
• Explain common communication triggers and determine the target audience and rationale
• Use the following change control process within the context of a project
• Recognize types of organizational change

Project Tools & Documentation

• Compare and contrast various project management tools
• Analyze project centric documentation
• Identify common partner or vendor-centric documents and their purpose

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.