IT Project Management

In this age of Digital Transformation, IT project performance plays a massive role in enabling organization’s implement their strategic goals. Despite many advances in technology and development approaches, it is still hugely challenging to deliver IT solutions that satisfy stakeholder expectations in relation to delivery dates, costs and usefulness.

IT project management is notoriously difficult as initial proposed information systems solutions are subject to constant change as soon as users and other stakeholders realize additional needs that can be met “if only the system had this extra feature”. In many cases, solid predictive project management with rigorous change controls has been used to tackle this issue - sometimes successfully but not always! As the world becomes increasingly complex and IT demands become more diverse, another more agile project management approach has proven to be more effective in meeting stakeholders needs. This course explores “SCRUM” – the dominant agile project management framework and enables delegates to understand when and how to apply this approach rather than the traditional predictive approach when performing IT projects. This IT Project Management training course presents generally accepted practices (as outlined in the PMI® Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)) used in both predictive and agile project management approaches.

This IT Project Management training course will feature:

• Predictive IT Project Management - the “Waterfall” approach
• Agility - why IT projects have adopted agile approaches
• Roles and responsibilities of IT project management
• Core project management practices - scoping, scheduling, budgeting
• Managing project quality, change, risk, communications, stakeholders
• Practices to manage IT project initiation, planning, execution, control and closure

By the end of This IT Project Management training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand when to use different project lifecycles for different IT projects
• Reflect on the importance of enabling effective collaboration in IT projects
• Perform core practices used in both predictive and agile IT management approaches
• Recognize and tackle common issues that can occur in IT project management
• Control IT project progress and report status appropriately

This IT Project Management training course is targeted at both management and team members engaged in IT projects. The course is designed to clearly explain formal project management approaches and enable delegates to recognize “warning signals” that indicate when IT projects are about to encounter issues. While delegates learn generally accepted practices widely used in predictive project management, they are also trained on how to refine predictive thinking in order to apply agile IT project management practices.

This IT Project Management training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• IT Directors considering digital transformation
• IT project managers
• Business analysts, programmers, quality assurance specialists
• Other technical specialists involved in IT projects (e.g. DBA)
• Stakeholders in organizations who influence IT projects

• AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
• The applicable PMI Professional Development Units/Contact Hours will be reflected in the Certificate of Completion