IS Project Management Course Overview

Target Audience for IS Project Management

The IS Project Management course equips professionals with skills to manage IT projects effectively, ensuring timely delivery and quality outcomes.

• Project Managers
• IT Managers
• Systems Analysts
• Project Coordinators
• Product Managers
• Scrum Masters
• Agile Coaches
• Business Analysts
• Quality Assurance Managers
• Software Development Managers
• Technical Team Leaders
• IT Consultants
• Change Managers
• Risk Management Specialists
• IT Project Team Members
• Program Managers
• Operations Managers involved in IT projects
• Project Management Office (PMO) Staff
• Project Sponsors and Stakeholders
• IT Professionals looking to transition into project management roles
• Professionals aiming for Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification

Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this IS Project Management?

Introduction to Learning Outcomes:

The IS Project Management course equips learners with comprehensive skills to effectively manage information systems projects, from initiation to closure, ensuring quality and mitigating risks.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

• Understand the distinction between projects and other types of work, and define the unique characteristics of projects.
• Learn to draft a project's terms of reference and understand the components of a business case, including the significance of discounted cash flows.
• Acquire knowledge of system and project life cycles, including iterative and incremental approaches, and familiarize with various implementation strategies.
• Develop project plans with clear deliverables and understand the relationship between products, activities, checkpoints, and milestones in project planning.
• Master the principles of project monitoring and control, including tracking progress, identifying variances, and implementing corrective actions.
• Grasp the importance of change control and configuration management to maintain project integrity and accommodate necessary changes.
• Define and assure quality within the project lifecycle, understanding the difference between quality control and quality assurance, and learn defect removal processes.
• Learn estimating techniques to accurately forecast project effort, duration, and cost, and understand the implications of estimation errors.
• Identify, assess, and plan for potential project risks, and learn to maintain risk registers and logs.
• Understand the dynamics of project communications and organization, including stakeholder identification, team roles, management styles, and team building phases.