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Learn the fundamentals & best practices of project management methodology as applied to IT initiatives, practice & master the skills you need to deliver IT projects on time, within budget & to specification.

  • Course Start Date: 2024-04-15
  • Time: 08:30:00 - 16:30:00
  • Duration: 3 days 08:30 AM - 04:30 PM
  • Location: Virtual
  • Delivery Method(s): Virtual Instructor Led

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
What You'll Learn
  • 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
Hands-On Exercises
  • 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
Course Outline

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?
2. Project Management Foundation
  • 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
3. Project Initiation
  • Project Selection and Prioritization
  • Business Case Development
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Project Charter
  • Project Objectives
  • Constraints and Assumptions
4. Project Scope Definition
  • 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
5. Time Management and Scheduling
  • Activity Definition
  • Activity Sequencing
  • Estimating Activity Duration
  • PERT
  • Network Diagramming
  • Critical Path
  • Float and Lag
6. Resource Planning
  • Identify Required Project Resources
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Resource Assignment Matrix
  • Staffing Management
  • Resource Constraints
7. Cost Management and Control
  • Cost Estimating Techniques
  • Types of Estimates
  • Contingency and Management Reserves
  • Typical IT Expenditures
  • Controlling and Managing Costs
  • Earned Value Analysis
8. Communications Management
  • Manage Stakeholder Expectations
  • Considerations for Effective Communication
  • Communication Management Plan
  • Project Status Report
9. Project Risk Management
  • Risk Sources for the IT Project
  • Stakeholder Risk Tolerance
  • Risk Identification
  • Risk Ranking
  • Risk Triggers
  • Risk Response Strategies
10. Procurement and Sourcing
  • 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
11. Project Management Methodologies
  • 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
12. Controlling and Managing Change
  • Causes of Change
  • Change Control Framework
  • Integrated Change Control
  • Change Control Process
  • Change Control Tools
13. Quality Assurance and Control
  • Creating Project Quality
  • Quality Management Theories
  • Quality Tools and Techniques
  • IT Project Testing
14. Phase and Project Closure
  • 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.

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Training Provider Rating

This vendor has an overall average rating of 4.38 out of 5 based on 431 reviews.

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 ... Read more
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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.

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Wasn’t as advanced as I thought it would be. There was an issue when the day my course was the first time they used a new platfo ... Read more
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Wasn’t as advanced as I thought it would be. There was an issue when the day my course was the first time they used a new platform.. from adobe to something called zoom; I had to call support line cause it stated our instructor wasn’t present. Thankfully I called cause everyone online was in the adobe virtual classroom waiting for what looked like a teacher who didn’t show up for class (IT didn’t get anything resolved until 10mins after start time). I felt like he was really getting hung up on very basic knowledge for the first half of the course (talking about how to create tabs and drag formulas as an example). I completed files a few times before he was done explaining. There was a scheduled fire drill for them (roughly 30mins)that also cut into our time, which wasn’t deducted from the hour lunch break or the two, fifteen min breaks. I also really wish he touched base more on the automating workbook functions portion which we barely did. I'm happy there were/are those study guides (learning videos) and exams to take on my own time that I hope after I've had the class are still available for me to learn from.

Course Reviews

This course has an overall avarage rating of 4.00 out of 5 based on 5 reviews.

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Chris F attended this course Dec 2016

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Patrick B attended this course Jun 2015

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The course was IT project Management. It really seemed like a Project management fundamentals course not so much IT.

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