An intensive professional development training course on
IT Project Management
Advancing Agile Projects in an IT Environment
Why Choose this Training Course?
In the era of Digital Transformation, the performance of IT projects is crucial for organizations to achieve their strategic goals. Despite technological advancements and development methodologies, delivering IT solutions that meet stakeholder expectations for delivery timelines, costs, and functionality remains a significant challenge.
IT project management is notoriously difficult because initial project requirements often evolve as users and stakeholders identify additional needs, such as new features or enhancements. While predictive project management with rigorous change controls has been used to address this issue—with varying degrees of success—a more agile approach has increasingly proven effective in meeting stakeholder needs in a complex and diverse IT landscape.
This course focuses on "SCRUM," the leading agile project management framework, and guides delegates on when and how to apply this agile approach as opposed to traditional predictive methods in IT projects. It also covers generally accepted practices from the PMI® Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) for 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
Who is this Training Course for?
This 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 AZTech 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
How will this Training Course be Presented?
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.
The Course Content
Day One: Nature of IT Projects
- 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
Day Two: Scope - IT Requirements
- Requirements Engineering
- Stakeholder management
- Requirements elicitation
- Quality factors in requirements engineering
- Key roles: Product Manager - Product Owner - Business Analyst
- Managing emergent requirements
Day Three: Detailed Planning
- 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)
Day Four: Managing Project Execution
- 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)
Day Five: Controlling & Closing IT Projects
- 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
The Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
- The applicable PMI Professional Development Units/Contact Hours will be reflected in the Certificate of Completion
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