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 (27 hours)
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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 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 ₪