COURSE OBJECTIVE:
The Foundation in IS Project Management course is an ideal introduction to the core IS and IT project management principles.
Over three days of investigation and learning, using a realistic case study, you'll gain a deeper understanding of common IS project management issues. Learn about the nature of projects and project work, monitoring and control, quality issues, project organisation and communication and more.
Presented by one of our expert training consultants, who bring substantial practical knowledge of project planning and management to this programme.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Business analysts, project leaders, business change managers and anyone who needs a thorough grounding in project management principles. Foundation in IS Project Management is also a Knowledge-Based module on the BCS (ISEB) International Diploma in Business Analysis.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
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COURSE CONTENT:
During this course, you will cover:
Project environment
• Characteristics of a project; the ‘triple constraint' of time/cost/quality
• Project and operational responsibilities
• Special features of computer projects
• Role of the Project Manager
• Project success and failure
• Development lifecycles
Project initiation
• Stakeholder analysis and management
• Defining the objectives and scope of the project
• The role of the Client and their responsibilities
• Project constraints and resources
• Project Initiation Document
Project planning
• The importance of breaking work down
• Product breakdown structures
• Project and User deliverables
• Standard deliverable sets and templates
• Product flows and work packages
• The concept of dependencies
Estimating deliverables
• Key concepts in estimating
• Estimating difficulties
• Estimating by analogy
• Parametric estimating
• Effort and elapsed time estimates
• Schedule compression
Planning networks and charts
• Precedence diagrams and project networks
• The critical path and its implications
• Gantt charts and resource histograms
• Planning at an appropriate level
• The use and abuse of planning software
Working in teams
• The elements of a good team
• Team composition
• Team roles
Motivation and management style
• The roots of motivation at work
• Approaches to motivation (Maslow, Herzberg)
• The effect of management style
Project risk management
• Purpose of risk management
• Risk management process
• Identifying and assessing risks
• Introduction to quantitative risk assessment
Project quality plans
• Principles of quality management
• The contents of a quality plan
• Quality Management
• Configuration management
The project plan
• Elements of a project plan (schedule, quality, risk)
• Contents and structure of a project plan
Project monitoring, reporting and control
• The importance of monitoring and control
• Allocating personal deliverables
• Progress measurement
• Time recording
• Introduction to earned value analysis
• Dealing with non-delivery
• Slippage and re-planning – corrective actions
• Change control, scope creep and over-engineering
• Reporting structures
Project completion
• Project sign-off and the need for a controlled close
• Post-project reviews
The project manager
• The project manager's role revisited
• Qualities and characteristics of effective project managers
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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