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Introduction
With tight pressure to cut costs and yet implement
technology quickly, IT project managers are under severe
pressure to complete projects on time, on budget, and at
the promised quality. Yet industry figures consistently
show that 90 percent of major IT project initiatives
fail to be completed both on time and on budget. This
course delves into the unique challenges of managing IT
projects, and offers a roadmap to success.
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Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able
to:
- Perform discovery and analysis to determine the
true nature of the problem or opportunity, ascertain
its relevance and feasibility, and identify associated
risks
- Establish the high-level timetable and budget for the project
- Create the project planning documents, including scope statement, project
charter, and statement of work
- Create the documents that lay the foundation for the project
- Conduct the management planning activities that result in the development of the
project plan, used to control the execution process of the project
- Determine the ideal team composition, recruit, negotiate for, and assign team
members
- Define a strategy for monitoring the project iteratively, calculate schedule and
budget variances, manage the critical path, team, and vendor relationships, and
monitor quality metrics
- Identify variances and outline corrective action, negotiate changes, and
identify the proper course of action to avoid scope creep
- Execute the project transfer steps, including documentation, transfer process,
sign-off, final project report, and a project team lessons-learned debriefing
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Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take
the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
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CompTIA Certified
Professional Exams
This course will help the student prepare for
the CompTIA
IT Project+ examination
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Course Materials
The student kit includes: CompTIA IT Project+ manual
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Course Outline
Lesson 1: Project Initiation: Discovery and Analysis
- Creating a Project Concept Definition
- Defining Business and Functional Requirements
- Define Technical Requirements
- Strategic and Operational Relevance
- Assessing Project Feasibility
- Perform Risk Assessment
Lesson 2: Project Initiation: Estimating
- Construct a Formal Estimate
- Create Time Estimates
- Create Cost Estimates
Lesson 3: Project Initiation: Framing the Project
- Managing Change
- Writing the Scope Statement
- Writing the Project Charter
- Writing a Statement of Work (SOW)
Lesson 4: Project Planning: Laying the Foundation
- Setting Expectations for the Planning Process
- Decomposing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Creating a Network Diagram
- Identify and Analyze the Critical Path
- Creating Project Schedules
- Creating Project Budgets
Lesson 5: Project Planning: Developing the Plan
- Develop Resource Management Plan
- Develop a Risk Management Plan
- Develop a Quality Management Plan
- Develop an Operational Transfer Plan
- Develop a Communication Plan
- Compile a Comprehensive Project Plan
Lesson 6: Project Planning: Building the Team
- Assemble the Project Team
- Building and Supporting the Team
- Developing the Team
Lesson 7: Project Execution: Monitoring and Managing
- Monitor the Project Iteratively
- Calculate Earned Value
- Execute Schedule Updates
- Execute Budget Updates
- Managing the Critical Path
- Managing the Project Team
- Managing Project Quality
- Managing Vendors
Lesson 8: Project Control: Managing Chaos
- Interpreting Control Techniques
- Mitigating Scope Creep
- Managing Variances
Lesson 9: Project Closure: Tying Up Loose Ends
- Managing Documentation
- Managing the Operational Transfer Plan
- Write Project Closure Report
- Obtain Final, Formal Sign-off
- Document Lessons Learned
- Managing Administrative Closure
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