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Modern IT Project Management — A 4-Day Course
Synopsis
This course brings together new technology and modern Project Management
techniques to provide an efficient and realistic basis for managing today's
projects. The focus is on the practicalities of how to achieve "on time and on
budget" delivery of successful product to demanding end-users, using proven
tools and methods. Attendees of this course will understand how to select an
appropriate software lifecycle, understand "agile" project management
techniques, define a build-strategy, perform realistic estimations, produce a
working Project Plan, and use the Project Plan to manage the project. Core
technologies addressed within the course include OO, UML, Test-tools,
Estimation tools, Requirements Management, Acceptance Test design, Inspections,
Agile processes and Extreme programming techniques. The training is
instructor-led, with extensive exercises and discussion sessions. The course is
likely to be seen as intensive.
Attendees will receive extensive classroom materials, white papers and example project planning documents and estimation toolsets.
Course Objectives
The course covers:
- Project Business Case
- Customer Management
- Software lifecycles - RAD, DSDM, XP, Staged, Waterfall, PRINCE2, SWEBOK
- Work breakdown analysis
- Planning tools (MS Project 2000)
- Estimation and estimation-tools
- Team organisation
- Requirements gathering and management
- Acceptance test design
- Inspections and reviews
- Time management
- Quality Processes
- Configuration Control
- Implementation Strategies
- Risk Management
- Choosing your Management Techniques
- Monitoring Techniques
- Making Best Use of Your Team
- Project Tracking and Control
- Project Review and Closure
- Getting Acceptance
Suitable For
- Project Managers
- Lead analyst / programmers
- Staff needing a view on IT Project Management issues
- Staff expecting to move into the Project Manager role
- Management wanting to familiarize themselves with current technology.
Prerequisites
- Exposure to software development
- Familiarity with multi-person projects
- Some knowledge of distributed systems
Presentation Style
- Lectures, demonstrations, hands-on exercises and group discussions.
Dates and Venues
- This course is only available as an on-site event. Prices are available on application.
Outline Course Contents
- Introduction to Project Management
- Project Initiation
- The Business Case
- Sponsor Management
- Customer Management
- Project Manager Toolkit
- PRINCE2™, SWEBOK
- Planning Prerequisites
- Getting to WOW!
- The PID
- Software Development Lifecycles
- RAD
- DSDM
- Spiral
- Waterfall
- V-Model
- Staged
- RUP
- Agile Processes
- Extreme Programming
- The CMM
- Implementation Strategies
- Low-risk Development
- Quality Processes
- Quality Planning
- Nail Driving
- Inspections
- Reviews
- Four-Eyes
- XP
- Validation & Verification
- Configuration Control
- Check pointing
- Testing and Test Strategies
- Test Design and Automation
- Teams and Team Organisation
- Staffing
- Resource Planning
- Roles
- Communication
- Team Approach to Decision Making
- Leadership
- Requirements Management
- Good Requirements and how to get them
- Functional Requirements
- Non-functional Requirements
- Assumptions
- JAD, Use Cases Prototypes, Story Boards
- Prioritisation, MoSCoW Rules
- Bunching
- Managing Changing Requirements- Tools and Techniques
- Designing Acceptance Tests
- Off-the-Shelf Packages
- Evaluating the Options
- Getting Buy-in
- Managing Updates
- Integration effort
- Design Techniques
- OO Design
- UML, Use Cases and Class Diagrams
- Reuse and reusability
- Design Tools, Rose, TogetherSoft, Visio
- Dealing with Risk
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Exposure
- Planning for Risk
- Dealing with Risk
- Product Delivery and Acceptance
- Planning for Delivery
- Deployment Teams
- Cut-over Techniques and Planning
- Data Takeover
- Graceful Back-out
- Post Project Review
- Acceptance Testing Criteria
- Estimating the Task
- Estimation techniques
- Analogue
- Delphi
- KLOCs
- Function Points
- CoComo
- Construx
- "Been There- Done That"
- OO Estimation
- Starting to Plan
- Introduction to Project 2000
- Establishing a Project
- Lifecycle Mapping
- Resource Allocation and Scheduling
- WBS, Gantt and Pert Charts
- Task Planning
- Reports and Reporting
- Costing
- Project Tracking
- Base-lining Your Project
- Progress Monitoring
- Management Techniques
- Critical Path Monitoring
- Time Management
- Monitoring Techniques
- Micro Milestones
- Time Boxing
- Daily Build and Smoke
- When to Re-plan
- Review and Rescheduling
- Customer negotiations
- Recovery techniques
- Key Topics Review
- Elements of Planning and Control
- Requirements vs. Acceptance Tests
- Successful Delivery
- Follow-on Business
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Publicly Scheduled Training Locations
We currently run public training courses in the following locations:
- London, UK
- Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
- Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
- Carshalton, Surrey, UK
- Chester, North West, UK
- Coventry, West Midlands, UK
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
- Manchester, North West, UK
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
- Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
- Reading, Berkshire, UK
- Slough, Berkshire, UK
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
- Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
- Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.
Please see the individual course outlines or our public
training schedule
for details.
In-house (on-site) training locations
We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in
any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.
Our In-house training guidelines
outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs
for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then
make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at
your location.
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