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Public
Courses — Career Based Course Curriculum — Tier 3
The Art of Project Management® for
IT/IS Projects
Best-practice based project management training for IT/IS
projects.
Packed with industry "best practices" and proven project
management techniques, this three-day course gives you a practical
approach to
managing the technical challenges in typical IT/IS
industry projects so you can more effectively deal with the deadlines,
resource needs, team issues and technical complexities in a successful,
professional way.
Who
Must Attend? | The Benefits | Program
Details | Public Course Schedule
Who Must Attend?
IT project managers and leaders, IT product development managers, programmers,
system analysts, marketing/operations/R&D managers, MIS managers,
system development managers, functional managers who deal with IT project
managers and team members who manage IT tasks and subtasks.
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The Benefits
Develop
a complete set of management skills for your current level of project-related
responsibility in IT.
You will be able to:
- Plan IT projects effectively and coach others
to plan
- Set realistic IT goals and objectives
- Develop realistic resource
plans
- Control single or multiple IT projects
- Build project teams
- Motivate and empower team members
- Develop effective communication
across project teams
- Manage cross-functional and cross-cultural
project
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Program Details
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1 |
The
Project Management Method
Effective
Project Planning
- Five basic
project planning elements and “behaviors”
- Defining
project objectives, “agreement”
- Developing
work breakdown structure (WBS), “control”
- Project
organizations, “accountability”
- SDLC – System
Development Life Cycle in IT projects
- Developing
realistic schedules, “communications”
- Using GANTT charts,
CPM and PERT network techniques
- Using GANTT charts (eg.
MS Project) in management reports
- Allocating and balancing
resources
- Establishing
performance baselines and budgets, “control”
- Examples
of the performance baseline
WORKSHOP:
Structuring and organizing an IT project
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| Day
2 |
Organizing
Project Teams
- Functional, project, matrix organizations
- “Managing
by projects”
- Roles and responsibilities
of line and project managers, team members
The
Project Leader/Manager
- The basics of leadership
- Project teambuilding
- Effect of management styles
- Complementing and conflicting
problem-solving styles
- Effect of problem-solving styles
on team performance and creativity
EXERCISE:
An assessment of your problem-solving style
EXERCISE:
Conflicts between project team members, functional
managers and project managers
EXERCISE:
Improving the project managers/senior management
interface
WORKSHOP:
The Project Planning Situation™
WORKSHOP:
How does your style and others’ enhance or
inhibit project team performance?
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3 |
Interpersonal
Skills
- Improving communication
- Project offices and control
rooms
- Three types of project review meeting
- Responding to
conflicts
- Techniques to motivate individual team members
- Dealing
with difficult people
Project
Control Techniques
- Principles of progress monitoring
- Controlling IT quality,
schedules and budget
- Activity-based performance measurement,
earned value
- Types of reports and displaying progress
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