IT Project Management

INTRODUCTION

• The tools and techniques that will help you optimize the Systems Development Life-Cycle processes so that you can bring your projects online more effectively, more quickly and on budget
• Learn how to accelerate development and compress design time - and how to use capability and maturity models so that you can assess where your IT processes currently are

• IT project managers
• Team leaders
• Programmers/analysts, systems analysts
• Project office staff members
• Personnel who manage IT projects but are not necessarily IT experts

• 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

• 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

• The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• WBS: from high-level strategy to detailed work packages
• Matching project objectives and methodology

• 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

• The Integrated Project Plan
• Gantt Chart, network diagram or spreadsheet?
• Project cost or budget plan?
• Project management software examples

• 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

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