IT Project Management Planning And Scheduling
Course Code: IT11
►Course Objective
- Learn how to use a step-by-step, phase based approach for successful projects
- Complete multiple project tasks on time
- Improve estimation of project costs, resources, and time
- Improve your overall project management tracking
- Manage the scope change that often occurs in projects through special methods, tools, and techniques
- Assess and improve your current project management system, both the process and software used
- Effectively initiate, plan, execute, control, and close out projects
- Apply or customize the UW framework for project management to your organizational needs
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of any successful project manager and review the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)
- Immediately apply project management principles back at work
►Target Audience
- New and experienced project managers; program managers; project team leaders who initiate, plan, and manage projects; project team members who are interested in enhancing their careers by preparing to become certified PMPs.
►Course Outline
Day 1
INTRODUCTION
- Why Organizations do Projects? The Drivers!
- The Project Constraints – Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Risk and Benefits
- An organized approach to Project Management
- Projects, Operations, Programs and Portfolios
- The role of a Project Manager
- The Project Management Office
- The Project Stakeholders
- Characteristics of the Project Life Cycle
- Manage by Exception
- The Project Environment and Tailoring
- Using Lessons, Knowledgebase, Experts, Templates and Processes
Day 2
INITIATING
- The Business Case
- Determine the Project Team
- Create a Project Charter
- Develop the Project Scope Statement
- Base project on templates and best practices
- Initiating best practices and checklists
Day 3
PLANNING
- Determining and entering project phases, milestones, deliverables and tasks
- Understanding, choosing and entering dependencies and deadlines
- Determining human and material resources and costs
- Assigning and fine tuning resources within their availability
- Optimize and present the plan to stakeholders for approval
- Life Cycle Costing
- Concepts on Cost
- Developing Project Budget
- Developing the Project Quality Plan
- Developing the Communication Management Plan
- Developing the Risk Management Plan / Risk Register
- Selecting the Contract Type
- The Vendor Selection Process
- Planning best practices and checklists
- Baseline the schedule
Day 4
- EXECUTING
- Team Building and Motivation
- Leadership Styles
- Conflict Management
- Solving Team Problems
- Tracking strategies and updating schedule
- Taking corrective actions to bring project back on track
- Analyzing and revising the schedule
- Status reporting
- Executing best practices and checklists
Day 5
MONITORING AND CONTROLLING
- The Monitoring and Controlling Loop
- Managing Changes
- Managing Corrective and Preventive Actions
- Measuring and Reporting Performance
- Project Reporting
- The Seven Basic Tools of Quality
- Quality Control Measurements
- Performance Appraisals
- Status Review Meetings
- Project reporting strategies
- Progress reporting using reports and views
- Forecasting efforts, dates and costs
- Maintain and control baseline
- Monitoring and controlling best practices and checklists
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