IT Project Management

In the era of Digital Transformation, the performance of IT projects is pivotal in enabling organizations to achieve their strategic objectives. Despite technological advancements and development methodologies, delivering IT solutions that meet stakeholder expectations regarding deadlines, costs, and functionality remains a significant challenge.

IT project management is notoriously difficult because initial proposed information systems often undergo frequent changes as users and stakeholders identify additional needs. This dynamic necessitates a flexible approach to project management, as traditional predictive methods with stringent change controls may not always succeed. As the IT landscape grows more complex and diverse, agile project management approaches like SCRUM have proven more effective in meeting stakeholder requirements.

This IT Project Management online training course explores SCRUM, the leading agile project management framework, empowering participants to understand when and how to apply it instead of traditional predictive methods in IT project execution. The course covers generally accepted practices outlined in the PMI® Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), applicable to both predictive and agile project management approaches.

This Anderson online 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

By the end of this Anderson online 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

This online training course is targeted at both management and team members engaged in IT projects. The course is designed to clearly explain formal project management approaches and enable delegates to recognize “warning signals” that indicate when IT projects are about to encounter issues. While delegates learn generally accepted practices widely used in predictive project management, they are also trained on how to refine predictive thinking in order to apply agile IT project management practices.

This Anderson online training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• IT Directors considering digital transformation
• IT project managers
• Business analysts, programmers, quality assurance specialists
• Other technical specialists involved in IT projects (e.g. DBA)
• Stakeholders in organizations who influence IT projects

This training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The course is highly interactive and is designed with briefings and a central project scenario as the driver for all course learning. The scenario will facilitate student participation in the development of many elements of IT project management. Several work products will be created including charters, product backlogs, Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), WBS, Sprint Backlogs, Schedules, risk registers etc.

• Characteristics of projects
• Fundamental concepts of project management
• IT project lifecycle - core phases performed in IT projects
• IT Product Management
• Key IT Project Considerations - Globally Distributed Teams
• IT project initiation - establishing the project charter

• Requirements Engineering
• Stakeholder management
• Requirements elicitation
• Quality factors in requirements engineering
• Key roles:  Product Manager - Product Owner - Business Analyst
• Managing emergent requirements

• Software Engineering Methods
• Work Breakdown Structures
• Building the project schedule - critical path management
• Establishing the release plan
• Key roles: Technical Architect, Designer, Developer Quality Assurance Specialist (QA)
• IT Project Quality Management - planning, executing and controlling quality
• Developing the Quality Assurance Plan (QA plan)

• Understanding IT Project Costs
• Software engineering teamwork - developing and managing the team
• Managing uncertainty - addressing risks
• The challenges with using Waterfall (predictive project management)
• Agile Software Development - values and principles
• Adaptive (Agile) Project Management (SCRUM)

• Preparing the progress report - traditional approach
• Progress dashboards using Earned Value Management
• Controlling value generation using Scrum (Agile) - Reviews
• Measuring Success - requirements traceability matrix
• Measuring Success - confirming value generation
• Continuous improvement - Lessons Learned & Retrospectives

Anderson e-Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the online course