Project Management for Technology Professionals

Improve Your Project Management Abilities With This Fast-Paced Course Using a Mix of Interactive Teaching Methods.

Overview

This comprehensive course focuses on the principles across the breadth of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), teaching you the knowledge, tools, techniques, and best practices to successfully manage a technology project from initiation to final closeout. Fulfill the goals of your project, organization, and customers while balancing the competing demands of time, cost, and scope.

You Will Learn How To

1. Define the role of the Information Technology(IT) project manager

2. Structured your approach to project management

3. Use methods and techniques necessary to effectively initiate, plan, control and report on projects

4. Develop effective, realistic project plans using proven techniques

5. Identify project tasks by creating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

6. Use scheduling techniques to create achievable schedules

7. Employ different estimating methodologies for calculating required resources

8. Develop a project risk management plan to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks

9. Manage change throughout the project life cycle

10. Keep your project on track by establishing baselines, monitoring progress and updating the project plan

11. Close out a project and capture essential lessons learned for repeatable project success

12. Communicate project status to stakeholders, team members and managers

13. Find solutions to problems specifically related to IT projects

14. Use forms and checks-lists that are ready for use immediately upon return to your work.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who has a responsibility to contribute to and deliver the right systems — the system that get used. Business Systems Analysts, Software Project Managers, Programmers, and other team members who make up an IT project team.