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IT Project Management Methodology

This 4-day course teaches project management best practices, including how to plan, manage, and deliver projects successfully. Trainees learn processes for defining objectives, estimating costs, scheduling tasks, managing risks, tracking progress, and closing projects. The course content covers topics such as creating project charters, building project plans, scheduling projects, implementing plans, and leading project teams. The target audience includes those new to project management or seeking a refresher on fundamental skills.

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IT Project Management Methodology

This 4-day course teaches project management best practices, including how to plan, manage, and deliver projects successfully. Trainees learn processes for defining objectives, estimating costs, scheduling tasks, managing risks, tracking progress, and closing projects. The course content covers topics such as creating project charters, building project plans, scheduling projects, implementing plans, and leading project teams. The target audience includes those new to project management or seeking a refresher on fundamental skills.

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IT Project Management Methodology

Duration : 4 Days 24 hrs. 6 hrs./ Day Overview: This course teaches best-practice techniques for running projects in a businesslike and professional way. Trainees learn how to successfully plan, manage and deliver projects using best practices. Trainees also learn how to implement project management processes, develop leadership skills and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, they have access to templates and checklists for use back at the workplace.

Target Audience:
Individuals who need to strengthen their project management skill sets, those new to project management, or project managers seeking a refresher on fundamental project management knowledge, skills and current tools.

Course Content: Introduction


Managing the project processes and issues Creating a realistic and achievable project plan Working within project constraints

Launching Your Project Applying a project framework for success


Managing the key inputs and outputs Balancing typical challenges of project management Selecting and applying best practices

Core project leadership skills


Building and managing team effectiveness Taking responsibility for the team culture

Building a project charter

Defining clear project objectives Determining and clarifying the goals Defining key project deliverables Gaining buy-in from stakeholders

The 6-Step Planning Method Defining the project workload


Determining project scope with work breakdown structures (WBS) Driving the plan down to manageable task level Calculating a first cut of project costs

Building high-confidence estimates


Effective ways to produce better estimates Differentiating between work, duration and resources Leveraging three-point estimating to refine accuracy Managing the estimating process

Scheduling the project


Converting WBS to precedence networks Determining the critical path tasks Creating dependency diagrams Calculating the project duration

Creating the project timeline


Building clear and readable Gantt charts Using slack effectively in the schedule Setting key milestones to track and control the project

Developing a risk management process

Identifying the project risks and assumptions

Evaluating risk impacts Strategies for managing risks Managing key risks with the Risk Register Reducing risks through contingency plans

Effectively matching resources to work


Identifying the resources your project needs Assigning resources to tasks Analysing resource use and costs in the schedule Optimising the use of resources Preparing and agreeing on task contracts

Running the Project Establishing an effective control process


Establishing change control procedures Presenting the project plan for approval Setting the baseline schedule

Implementing the plan


Monitoring real task progress Analysing progress against the baseline Picking up warnings of trouble ahead Engaging team members to maximise productivity

Tracking and reporting progress


Tracking planned vs. actual task performance Analysing the impact of variation to the baseline Avoiding the 90% complete trap Crashing the critical path tasks

Implementing, correcting and optimising strategies to achieve project objectives

Leading throughout the project life cycle


Communicating project status to stakeholders Coping with common project scenarios Building ownership, motivation and commitment across the team

Successful Project Closure


Managing systematic project closedown The payoff of post-implementation review Documenting project and personal lessons learned

Time spent on each topic Content Introduction to project management Building a project charter Core project leadership skills Identifying and structuring project work Building high-confidence estimates Task sequencing and scheduling Effectively matching resources to work Developing a risk management process Setting the baseline Running the project Hours 2.5 2.5 1.0 2.0 2.0 3.5 2.5 2.0 2.0 3.0

Closing the project

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