IT Project Management

Course details

Poor-quality IT systems - Late delivery of IT systems - Cost overruns on IT systems development. Fifty years ago, in 1968 in Garmish Germany, these outcomes led to delegates at the first NATO conference in software engineering to coin the term "Software Crisis". Despite advances in technology and development approaches, it is still hugely challenging to deliver IT systems that satisfy stakeholder expectations in relation to delivery dates, costs and usefulness.

IT project management is notoriously difficult due to the rapid increase in possible IT solutions leading to users and other stakeholders often only coming to realize that what they require is not what they initially requested! In many cases, solid predictive project management with rigorous change controls has been used to tackle this issue - sometimes successfully but not always! As the world becomes increasingly complex and IT demands become more diverse, another more agile project management approach has proven to be more effective in meeting stakeholders needs. This training course presents generally accepted practices (as outlined in the PMI® Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) used in both predictive and agile project management approaches.

This AZTech training course will feature:

• Predictive IT Project Management - the "Waterfall" approach
• Agility - why IT projects have adopted agile approaches
• Roles and responsibilities of IT project management
• Core project management practices - scoping, scheduling, budgeting
• Managing project quality, change, risk, communications, stakeholders
• Practices to manage IT project initiation, planning, execution, control and closure

 
What are the Goals?

By the end of this AZTech training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand when to use different project lifecycles for different IT projects
• Reflect on the importance of enabling effective collaboration in IT projects
• Perform core practices used in both predictive and agile IT management approaches
• Recognize and tackle common issues that can occur in IT project management
• Control IT project progress and report status appropriately

Updated on 04 October, 2018