Project Management Principles for IT Professionals

Course Details

• At Course Completion
• Perform discovery and analysis to determine the true nature of the problem or opportunity, ascertain its relevance and feasibility, and identify associated risks
• Establish the high-level timetable and budget for the project
• Create the project planning documents, including Scope Statement, Project Charter, and Statement of Work
• Create the documents that lay the foundation for the project -
• Conduct the management planning activities that result in the development of the project plan, used to control the execution process of the project
• Determine the ideal team composition, recruit, negotiate for, and assign team members
• Define a strategy for monitoring the project iteratively, calculate schedule and budget variances, manage the critical path, team, and vendor relationships, and monitor quality metrics
• Identify variances and outline corrective action, negotiate changes, and identify the proper course of action to avoid scope creep
• Execute the project transfer steps, including documentation, transfer process, sign-off, final project report, and a project team lessons-learned debriefing -
• Lesson 1: Project Initiation: Discovery and Analysis
• Create Project Concept Definition
• Defining Business and Functional Requirements
• Define Technical Requirements
• Strategic and Operational Relevance
• Assessing Project Feasibility
• Perform Risk Assessment
• Lesson 2: Project Initiation: Estimating
• Construct a Formal Estimate
• Create Time Estimates
• Create Cost Estimates
• Lesson 3: Project Initiation: Framing the Projects
• Managing Change
• Writing the Scope Statement
• Writing the Project Charter
• Writing a Statement of Work (SOW)
• Lesson 4: Project Planning: laying the Foundation
• Setting Expectations for the Planning Process
• Decomposing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Creating a Network Diagram
• Identify and Analyze the Critical Path
• Creating Project Schedules
• Creating Project Budgets
• Lesson 5: Project Planning: Developing the Plan
• Develop Resource Management Plan
• Develop a Risk Management Plan
• Develop a Quality Management Plan
• Develop an Operational Transfer Plan
• Develop a Communication Plan
• Compile a Comprehensive Project
• Lesson 6: Project Planning: Building the Team
• Assemble the Project Team
• Building and Supporting the Team
• Developing the Team
• Lesson 7: Project Execution: Monitoring and Mapping
• Monitor the Project Iteratively
• Calculate Earned Value
• Execute Schedule Updates
• Execute Budget Updates
• Managing the Critical Path
• Managing the Project Team
• Managing Project Quality
• Managing Vendors
• Lesson 8: Control: Managing Chaos
• Interpreting Control Techniques
• Mitigating Scope Creep
• Managing Variances
• Lesson 9: Project Closure: Typing Up Loose Ends
• Managing Documentation
• Managing the Operational Transfer Plan
• Write Project Closure Reports
• Obtain Final
• Formal Sign-off
• Document Lessons Learned
• Managing Administrative Closure