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Overview
IT professionals are increasingly required to operate within a project environment or even to manage IT projects. Projects bring together resources, skills, technology and ideas to deliver business benefits - but all too often they fail to deliver or overrun on time and budget. Methods such as PRINCE2 provide an effective framework for the management of any project but rely on members of a project management team applying a wide range of business and interpersonal skills and techniques.
This course aims to develop the core skills and techniques required to deliver todays IT projects on time, within budget and to the required quality. This includes those mentioned in the PRINCE 2 manual but not included in the examination syllabuses. The course is therefore a perfect complement to our PRINCE2 certification courses. It is also an ideal starting point for those who wish to develop the core skills of project management outside a PRINCE2 environment.
Extensive use is made of case study material and a practical workshop which covers the life of a project from Startup to Closure.
Delegates will learn how to:
- Describe the key phases of an IT project
- Define the scope of a project
- Approach risk management
- Implement planning and estimating techniques
- Manage the project team
- Track the projects progress
- Control change
- Execute project Closure
Prerequisites:
No previous knowledge of project management is assumed other than a basic awareness of project work in the delegates own business environment
Course Outline
Day 1 (Startup)
- The nature of projects and project work
- The IT project management life cycle
- Identifying Business Requirements
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Creating a Scope Document
- Risk Management
- Structure, organisation and responsibilities
Day 2 (Planning)
- The need for project planning and control
- Outline and detailed planning techniques
- Work Breakdown Structures
- Identifying resource requirements
- Estimating effort, duration and cost
- Adjustments, allowances and contingency
- Activity networks and Critical Path Analysis
- Schedules and Gantt charts
Day 3 (Execution & Closure)
- Managing Quality
- Change control procedures
- Collecting and analysing progress information
- Earned Value Analysis
- Dealing with Issues
- Taking corrective action
- Managing the Project Team
- Managing Project Closure
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