How many times …
- have you spearheaded an IT project that turned out to be a failure?
- have you been involved in projects that just kept getting more complex, more costly, more out of control, and more behind schedule?
- have you wasted time, energy, and resources to restart projects that turned out to be missing key elements criticial to their progress?
As you know, information technology is an extremely volatile and dynamic work environment. Technical advances, business requirements, competitive forces, and regulatory issues create an atmosphere of almost constant change. Anyone who takes on the daunting task of planning, executing, and controlling complex projects within the IT environment faces a unique set of challenges, frustrations, and problems. And that's where this powerful training from Fred Pryor Seminars can really make a difference.
We've designed this seminar to address the needs of IT project managers who are responsible for delivering new systems and technology — on time and on budget — to internal and external clients, customers, and stakeholders.
This course offers 6 hours of solid project management instruction, complete with case studies, in-depth discussions, exercises, examples, and much more. It provides IT project managers with a strong platform of skills, tools, and techniques for planning, scheduling, budgeting, organizing, and controlling projects.
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Project Management for IT Professionals — Seminar Overview
The IT Project Life Cycle
- The different types of IT project life cycles, and how to determine the appropriate life cycle for your project
- Essential project control documents — the project charter, work breakdown structure, statement of work, project status report, and more
- How to establish an optimal process for accomplishing your project's goals
Initiating Successful IT Projects
- The key to setting effective project goals
- A simple step-by-step plan for creating the IT project's statement of work
- A valuable formula that helps you define the project's scope
- Your project's triple constraints — how they limit progress, how you can work around them
- The real reasons why IT projects fail — and how to improve your chances of success
Planning the Project
- How to define the requirements of your project
- What it takes to create, develop, and chart the work breakdown structure of your project
- How the work breakdown structure can be used to avoid errors of omission and identify unknowns that may cause problems down the road
- The importance of identifying and reporting project milestones to stakeholders
- Task and activity duration estimates — key formulas to simplify them and allow for both knowns and unknowns
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Execution and Control
- How to identify the skills and knowledge needed to perform your project's tasks
- Factors to consider when matching people and skills to project tasks
- How a Human Resources Matrix can determine who will perform project activities and how much total effort they will invest
- Techniques to monitor progress; key monitoring devices that keep your project on time, on budget, and on target to meet objectives
Closing the IT Project
- How to get project acceptance, final approvals, and buy-in from stakeholders
- What to do when the proejct is finished, but not all objectives have been achieved
- How and why to hold a post-project evaluation meeting
- Ways to analyze the results of your project and incorporate "lessons learned" — both good and bad — into your next project
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To find out more about Project Management for IT Professionals, contact our customer service department at customerservice@pryor.com or by phone at (800) 780-8476.
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