Strategies in IT Project Management

Day 1

Planning projects

• Projects versus operations

• Project management definitions

• Managing project constraints

• Applications of project management

• Potential benefits of project management

• Definition of project life cycle

• Project charter

• Project scope statement

• Project specifications

• Work breakdown structure

• Project decomposition

Day 2

Overview of IT project management

• Defining project management terminologies

• Skills needed by IT project manager

• System development life cycle

  • Waterfall model

  • Incremental model

  • Basic iterative model

  • Agile development model

• IT project manager roles and responsibilities

Day 3

Scheduling projects

• Linking activities and WBS sequencing

• Predecessors sequencing techniques

• Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)

• Critical Path Method (CPM)

• Forward and backward scheduling

• Gantt chart

• Milestone chart

• Slack management

• Schedule compression techniques

• Myths and realities of schedule compression

• Resource planning

• Resource leveling

Day 4

Project concept

• Assessing business needs and opportunities

• Developing a project concept

• Developing a business case

• Identifying stakeholders

• Establishing conceptual solutions

• Project charter

Day 5

Project requirements

• Gathering and defining requirements

• Functional and non-functional requirements

• Requirements gathering techniques

• Analyzing and prioritizing requirements

• Documenting requirements

Day 6

Organizing and controlling projects

• Project organization and project control

• Mastering earned value management

• Schedule and budget variances

• Schedule and cost performance indexes

• Earned value management benefits

• Project management reporting

• Auditing a project

• The role of software in project management

Day 7

Project planning

• Building work breakdown structure

• Estimating project duration and resources

• Activity sequencing

• Network diagram

• Critical path analysis

• Schedule planning

• Gantt charts

• Milestone charts

• Resource planning

• Agile project planning

  • Adaptive planning

  • User story (product) backlog

  • Relative sizing and story points

  • Product roadmap

  • Release and iteration planning

Day 8

Selecting projects using capital budgeting techniques

• Definition of capital budgeting

• Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)

• Payback Period (PP)

• Net Present Value (NPV)

• Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

Day 9

Managing project stakeholders

• Identifying stakeholders

• Types of stakeholders

• Managing stakeholder engagement

• Project manager skills

• Project negotiation

Project design

• Developing preliminary design

• Performing gap analysis

• Prototyping IT solution

• Preparing technical specifications documentation

• Solution alternatives

Day 10

Project implementation and closeout

• Managing project team

• Managing schedule

• Managing cost

• Earned value analysis

• Change management

• Delivery and transitioning

• Project closeout