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Information Systems Project Management On-Site Training
If you develop software, or contribute to the development and management of software teams, this is the seminar for you.
Course Description/Agenda
Length:
3 days
Number of Participants: Up to 20
Materials: Notebooks and handouts provided
IT Project Teams
understand the meaning of time uncertainty. Too often completion
dates are imposed on software developers without understanding
development time risk. Often objectives are unclear at project
start. Getting customers and corporate managers to clearly state
what they want can be a Herculean effort. If you develop software,
or contribute to the development and management of software teams,
this is the seminar for you.
Who Should Attend
- IT/IS Directors
- IT/IS Managers
- Software Business Unit Managers
- Systems Analysts
- Programmers
- Engineers and System Integrators
- Software Application Developers
- Web Site/Internet Developers
- Software Marketing Managers
- Network Installers
- Help Desk Managers
You Will Discover
Why software projects tend to run into the unexpected, not unlike
the X Files, and why corporate managers or customers have
expectations that are different than what is delivered. When project
scope continually changes, or was not nailed down at project start,
you will discover why both money and time slip through your fingers.
Is this your environment? Well then, it’s time to give your team the
Project Management Training they need to effectively plan and
communicate software projects to managers and customers. This
seminar will show participants how to properly plan, schedule, and
control IT development projects. It will show you how to make
people's overloads visible. With people that have truly blocked time
for work on projects, the schedules and deliverables will be
realistic. If you are tired of being caught between customers and
management with unrealistic schedules, this seminar for you.
Seminar Outline:
1. Project Start,
Getting Input Data:
- The IT Project Managers Role
- Getting Management and Customers to Develop Clear
Objectives
- Communication Bridges and Cross Functional Teams
- Focus Meetings with Customers (Both Internal and
External)
- Building or using an Existing Team
- Methods to Clarify Objectives Prior to Software
Development
- Developing a Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)
- Dividing the Project into Sub projects
- Phase or Stage Development Models
- WBS Examples for Different
Projects
- Templates that will assist in WBS development
- Estimating Task Time
- Optimistic, Pessimistic, and Most Probable Estimates
for Software
- Using Statistical Estimating Techniques for
Development Projects
- Understanding On Time Probability Concepts
- When to End a WBS
2. Group Workshop
- Discuss Time-Uncertain Tasks
in Software Development
- From Past Experience,
Identify Areas that Cause Delays
- Group Recommendations for
Building a WBS
3. The Tools and
Techniques Used to Plan and Schedule IT Projects
- A review of Project
Management Concepts
- GANTT Charts
- PERT (Program Evaluation
Review Technique)
- A Development Tool, When Time is Uncertain
- How Computers Solve Projects: Understanding Computer
Algorithms.
- Calculating a Projects Development Time Risk
- CPM (Critical Path Method)
- When Project Time is Easily Predictable
- Precedence Diagram Method
- Analyzing a Project, A Responsive Exercise
- Building a Project Time Network, A Responsive
Exercise
- Compressing a Project
Schedule (Crashing) to Meet a Market Need
- Developing the Project Cost Time Characteristic
- Using the Crashing Technique to Build Predictable IT
Projects
4. Modern Project
Development Tools and Techniques
- The Combined Gantt Time Network System
- Building a Software Project from Ground Zero
- Multi Project Work Loads: Avoiding People Overloads
- Team Planning, Linking & Layering Project Phases
- Monte Carlo Project Time Risk Assessment
Setting Priorities for Cross
Functional People Teams
A Mechanized Gantt Responsive
Exercise for an IT Project
- Project Start and the WBS
- The Project Plan, A Visible Critical Path Network in
Linear Time
- Work In Process, The Unexpected Happens
- Corrective Action, Getting Back on Schedule
- Project Budgets and Financial Projections
- Project Completion Time Risk Assessment
- Multi Project People Work Loads and Avoiding Overloads
5. Control of
Projects, Financial Monitoring & Status Reports
- Managing Multiple Small Projects
- Earned Value Status Reporting
- Trending a Project
- Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS)
- Budget Cost of Work Performed (BCWP)
- Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP)
- Four Case Studies, A Responsive Exercise
- The Purpose of St
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