This is a comprehensive project management training course for business and IT people who
are involved in IT projects, including software development projects.
The course shows how IT projects should be managed, from inception to post implementation
review. People who attend the course say that it covers more ground and in more detail than
many other 3-day and even 4-day project management training courses.
The course is very highly rated by those who attend. It covers a lot
of material in 3 days yet is run in a relaxed manner and all will feel welcome.
It teaches how to manage projects rather than how to administer a methodology.
This project management training course is suitable for project managers and team leaders,
IT developers and testers and for business people who are involved in IT projects.
Those who have had methodology training (eg Prince2) will find that this course shows how
methodology theory might be applied in a practical way to IT projects.
The course is also ideal for people who may have managed projects before, but not IT projects,
as the course describes the specific challenges posed by IT projects, particularly
software projects, and how they might be dealt with.
There are no prerequisites - no prior project management training is necessary.
No IT knowledge is needed.
Project Management Training Course contents:
The course describes in a readily understandable way how projects should be managed.
The course covers:
project management principles - including the differences between managing operational activities and managing projects; what constitutes good, useful project management standards. more
project definition - turning ideas into defined, planned projects; project definition workshops; business case; project definition document. more
project roles and responsibilities - project sponsor, project manager, team leader and many more. How and when to get roles defined and agreed. more
software development lifecycle phases - who should do what in the Requirements Phase, Design Phase, etc with a focus on user activities. Explained in plain English not IT jargon. more
getting stakeholder buy in and commitment - including the role of the steering committee. more
planning user resources for IT projects - ensuring user resources, not just IT resource, are assigned to IT projects. more
estimating - techniques for estimating how much the project might cost; top down and bottom up methods; rules of thumb, etc. more
planning and scheduling - how to construct a schedule; value (or otherwise!) of planning tools. more
risk management - assessing and managing risk; includes a very comprehensive risk checklist and a sample risk register. more
tracking - how to track and record project status; selling time recording to the team. more
controlling - how to use project status data, compare to plan and identify problems. more
status reporting - how to report status vs plan data at team level, project manager level and project sponsor level; includes sample status reporting templates. more
issue management - how to manage issues, not just log and forget them; sample issue forms. more
change management - mechanisms for controlling change requests; who controls change; sample change request forms. more
quality management - walk throughs, inspections, prototyping simulations, quality measurements, cause analysis, etc; how to get the team interested in quality. more
stage and project completion - lessons learned meetings; capturing experience; recording plan vs actual; sample project completion record template. more
post implementation review - assessing project success and investment return. more
independent project assurance - helping project managers; project health checks; compliance monitoring. more
project management routemap - the major themes of the project management course applied to an example project. more
Instructor This course is run by Mike Harding Roberts. Mike worked for
IBM for many years as a project manager, manager of project managers and project management consultant.
Training Course This project management course is suitable for novices who need introductory
project management training through to experienced project team leaders and others who are moving into
more senior project management roles.
