Course Description
Goals:
- Understand the role of a Project manager in IT
- Explain the main competencies of a Project manager
- Identify Product development and deliver models
- Discuss how to engage and influence stakeholders to maximize value
- Learn and define project development models – predictive, agile, hybrid
- Discuss the role and characteristics of the project team and team management approaches
- Define project scope, schedule and budget
- Design WBS and project schedule
- Manage project risks and quality
- Transfer project’s product to operations and close the project.
- Prepare fort the Scrumstudy Agile master certification
Audience:
Product owners, Project managers, IT Pros, IT managers, Analysts, IT developers and engineers
You will learn
After graduation you will know:
- identification of stakeholders, their needs,
- Types of organizational structures
- The role and competencies of the IT project manager
- The role of the sponsor in the project
- How to manage project requirements
- How to define the appropriate project model across predictive, FDD, DSDM, XP, Scrum, Crystal, Test driven development
- formulation and coordination of requirements for IT products,
- Decomposition of requirements and construction of WBS (IRS), backlog
- The use of prototyping as an element of digital solution planning
- The specifics of managing a team of ambitious, highly educated employees
- Formation of a calendar plan (schedule) of a project or part of it: phase, sprint
- Risks of change. Agile approaches to management through change
- Digital Product and Project Implementation Quality Management
- Control and monitoring of project implementation
- Closing a phase (iteration, sprint) and a project.
- Learning and knowledge management in the project
After graduation, you will be able to:
- Manage the collection of project information
- investigate the feasibility of the project, choose ways to implement the project: waterfall, iterative, flexible and combine them
- work with the management and the customer on the implementation of the project
- Collect requirements and resolve contradictions
- Effectively plan the project and generate project documentation
- competently prepare the project budget, assess the economic efficiency of the project
- select and lead a team for the project, develop staff and resolve conflicts
- set quality metrics and organize quality control of both the IT product and the progress of the project
- Monitor the implementation of the project plan, make the necessary changes, complete the project
- Complete a phase, iteration, sprint, and the project as a whole. Put the product into operation
- Manage knowledge in the project.
Prerequisites
No specific pre-requisites are required. Having basic experience in IT or working with IT would be an advantage.
Awareness with ITIL 4.0 Foundation training is an advantage, but not mandatory.
Course Program
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- Let’s know each other
- Goals and objectives of the course
- The place of the project in the life cycle of IT services
- Project as a way to create value
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- Stakeholders.
- The role and competencies of the IT project manager
- The role of the sponsor in the project.
- Ways to initiate a project
- Business case
- Project Charter, Canvas
- Initiating documents
- Practice: Development of a stakeholder matrix and project initiation documents
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- Uncertainties in the project
- Create a requirements specification.
- Digital product prototypes
- Results of the feasibility study
- Project implementation models: predictive, incremental, iterative, adaptive and hybrid
- Waterfall, V-models
- Agile principles
- Feature driven development (FDD)
- Dynamic systems development method (DSDM)
- Scrum
- XP
- Crystal
- Test driven development (TDD)
- Stacey and cynefin models for project model selection
- Practice: Feasibility study and decision on the project implementation model
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- Decomposition. Granularity dependency on implementation model
- Work breakdown structure (WBS and dictionary)
- Hierarchical backlog
- Resource planning for decomposed works
- Practice: Build a decomposition of work in a project
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- Task dependencies
- Constraints, lags
- Control reserve
- Network diagram analysis
- Ways to shorten the schedule
- Incremental refinement of the schedule (agile).
- Practice: Developing and optimizing a project network diagram
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- Features of the IT team.
- Management through leadership
- Self-organizing teams
- Conflict resolution in the team.
- Communication options and communication models.
- Virtual Teams
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- Methods of evaluation.
- Budgeting. S-chart.
- Economic indicators of the project
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- Risk management.
- Typical risks of IT projects.
- Risks of hierarchical and agile planning.
- Methods of identification, analysis and risk management.
- Adaptive (flexible) approaches as a way to manage uncertainty risks
- Practice: Development of a project risk register
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- Quality management in the project.
- Proactive (leading) and reactive (lagging) indicators
- Planning, control and monitoring tools
- Project Quality Management Plan
- Types of monitoring.
- Earned value method
- Burndown chart
- Control the closure of a phase/iteration/sprint.
- Knowledge management.
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- Pilot
- Handover of the product into operation
- Start-up support
- Making a decision on the success of the project.
- Lessons learned.
- Accumulation of knowledge.
- Team encouragement.
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- Exam requirements overview
- Registration procedure
- Mock up test
Course duration in hours:
27 hours
Course Schedule
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Trainer
Danil Dintsis
Date
Any convenient date
Training format
Place of study
Online, from a convenient locationLanguage
EnglishPrice
5620 ₪
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Trainers
Danil Dintsis
Learning price
5620 ₪