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====== Information Technology Project Management Course ======

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Date : 30 September 2022

Updated : 6 March 2024 

By : Khawar Nehal (khawar@atrc.net.pk)


Course Title: IT Project Management

Course Overview:

    This course provides an in-depth understanding of project management principles, practices, and tools specifically tailored to IT projects. Students will learn how to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control, and close IT projects successfully.

Course Objectives:

    Understand the fundamentals of project management and its application in IT projects.
    Learn how to initiate and define IT projects effectively, including stakeholder identification and requirements gathering.
    Develop skills in project planning, including scope management, scheduling, resource allocation, and budgeting.
    Gain proficiency in project execution, including team leadership, communication, risk management, and quality assurance.
    Learn techniques for monitoring and controlling IT projects, including progress tracking, issue management, and change control.
    Understand the importance of project closure and post-implementation review in IT project management.

Course Outline:

Module 1: Introduction to IT Project Management

    Overview of project management concepts
    Importance of project management in IT
    Key roles and responsibilities in IT project management

Module 2: Project Initiation

    Defining project objectives and scope
    Stakeholder identification and analysis
    Requirements gathering and analysis

Module 3: Project Planning

    Work breakdown structure (WBS) development
    Schedule development and management
    Resource allocation and management
    Budgeting and cost estimation
    Risk identification, assessment, and mitigation planning

Module 4: Project Execution

    Team development and leadership
    Communication and collaboration in IT projects
    Procurement management for IT projects
    Quality assurance and control

Module 5: Project Monitoring and Control

    Progress tracking and performance measurement
    Issue identification and management
    Change management and configuration control
    Earned value management (EVM) for IT projects

Module 6: Project Closure and Post-Implementation Review

    Formalizing project closure
    Lessons learned and knowledge transfer
    Project documentation and archiving
    Post-implementation review and project evaluation

Assessment:

    Assignments and quizzes to assess understanding of key concepts
    Group projects or case studies to apply project management principles in real-world scenarios
    Final exam to evaluate overall comprehension of course material

Conclusion:

    Summary of key takeaways from the course
    Next steps for further learning or certification in IT project management

Prerequisites:

    Basic understanding of project management concepts is recommended but not required.

This course outline provides a structured framework for teaching essential IT project management skills and knowledge to students. Instructors can customize the content and activities based on the specific needs and objectives of the course and the target audience.





Course Description:

IT Project Management: Fundamentals overviews the basics of project management. It provides the theory and core methodology you will need to manage projects or participate 
on project teams.

This course uses openproject as a project management software application

Target Student:

Students enrolling in this course should be planning to lead a project (primary audience) or

serve on a project team (secondary audience).

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, we recommend you have some working knowledge of computer usage. 

The basics are covered in the our OCDL course.


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Open Computer Driving License (OCDL)]]



Benefits:

Students will learn how to use project management techniques to plan, organize, control,

document, and close out their projects successfully and with minimum risk.

Performance Based Objectives :

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Discuss the phases of the Project Management Life Cycle and a project manager's 
role in each phase.

• List and discuss basic project success criteria and common reasons for project 
failure.

• Discuss techniques for setting up a strong project team.

• List and discuss elements of a Risk Management Plan.

• Discuss techniques for planning and sequencing project activities, including the

Work Breakdown Structure and the Network Logic Diagram.

• Identify the Critical Path for completing a project on schedule.

• List and discuss the cost elements that should be included in a project budget.

• Discuss techniques for controlling for deviation from budgets and schedules.

• Discuss key elements of project management communications and reporting tools.

• Discuss key activities of project closeout.

 
===== Analysis of Requirements =====


Match competence to scenario

Evaluate a project business case


===== Stakeholders =====

Identify and assess stakeholders

Stakeholders

Resource management

Teams

===== Scope =====

  

Define product scope

Project charter

Product and project scope

Decompose product scope into stakeholder requirements

Create WBS and dictionary

Work breakdown structure


===== Risk Management =====
 Cause-and-effect diagram

Risk register

SWOT analysis

Create risk register

Risk identification and management

ICT Risk Management

Project Risk 



===== The Project Team =====


The Teamwork Challenge

Selecting Team Members

The Team Charter


==== Communication ====


Develop a communication plan

Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix

Run charts

Project Cycle Optimisation (PCO)

Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (An approach for developing common understanding and consensus amongst project participants and stakeholders as to how the project will achieve its goal)

Logical framework approach

===== Project management activities =====

Project management is composed of several different types of activities such as:

    Analysis and design of objectives and events
    Planning the work according to the objectives
    Assessing and controlling risk (or Risk Management)
    Estimating resources
    Allocation of resources
    Organizing the work
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(project_management)
        http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/introduction-to-project-management.html
    Acquiring human and material resources
        http://www.businessballs.com/freeonlineresources.htm
    Assigning tasks
    Directing activities
    Controlling project execution
    Tracking and reporting progress (Management information system)
    Analyzing the results based on the facts achieved
    Defining the products of the project
    Forecasting future trends in the project
    Quality Management
    Issues management
    Issue solving
    Defect prevention
    Identifying, managing &amp; controlling changes
    Project closure (and project debrief)
    Communicating to stakeholders




===== Project management artifacts =====

The following documents serve to clarify objectives and deliverables and to align sponsors, clients, and project team's expectations.

    Project Charter
    Preliminary Scope Statement / Statement of work
    Business case / Feasibility Study
    Scope Statement / Terms of reference
    Project management plan / Project Initiation Document
    Work Breakdown Structure
    Change Control Plan
    Risk Management Plan
    Risk Breakdown Structure
    Communications Plan
    Governance Model
    Risk Register
    Issue Log
    Action Item List
    Resource Management Plan
    Project Schedule
    Project Status Report
    Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix
    Database of lessons learned
    Stakeholder Analysis
    Document Management

These documents are normally hosted on a shared resource (i.e., intranet web page) and are available for review by the project's stakeholders (except for the Stakeholder Analysis, since this document comprises personal information regarding certain stakeholders. Only the Project Manager has access to this analysis). Changes or updates to these documents are explicitly outlined in the project's configuration management (or change control plan).

===== Project Management tools =====

Project Management tools include following:

==== Financial tools ====



    Earned value management
    
    Monte Carlo methods in finance



==== General management tools ====

  * Online tools to run a Project Health Check (Ph-Check tool), take a baseline or checkpoint, or to generate highlight, or status reports.

==== Scheduling charts ====



    PERT charts
    Gantt charts
    Event Chain Diagrams


===== Related lists =====


    Glossary of project management
    List of management topics
    List of production topics
    List of project management software
    List of Theory of Constraints topics
    Timeline of project management

  Establish quality metrics
  Create an initial schedule and budget
      Effort and duration
      Estimating effort
      Level of accuracy in estimates
      Team-based estimation
      Scheduling
      Estimating cost
  Review and disposition a change request
      Change management
  Plan a project rollout
      Testing
      Release management
  Use metrics to reassess the business case
      Delivering business value


===== The Project Management Life Cycle =====


What is a Project?

The Project Management Life Cycle

The Role of the Project Manager

===== Setting Up for Success =====


The Meaning of Success

What Happens in the Initiation Phase?

Project Definition and Scope

Putting Together a Statement of Work

The Project Charter





===== The Project Team =====


The Work Breakdown Structure

Work Package Sequencing


===== The Project Schedule =====


The Scheduling Process

Time Estimates

===== The Project Budget =====


What is a Budget?

Creating a Preliminary Budget

Budget and Schedule Balancing

===== Project Tracking and Control =====


Moving the Project Forward

Monitoring for Project Progress

Earned Value Analysis

Getting Back on Track

===== Project Reports =====


Communications Overview

Project Performance Reports

Project Change Requests

===== Closing =====

Close out a project

Elements of Closeout

Evaluation of People and Projects

 


===== Integration Management =====
 

===== Time Management =====

 

===== Compensation Management =====
 
 

===== Cost Management =====


 

 

===== Quality Management =====


 

 

===== Human Resource Management =====
 

===== Communications Management =====
 

===== Procurement Management =====

 

===== Stakeholder Management =====

 

===== Agile =====
 

===== Scrum =====

 
===== Methodology =====


  * Learn about project management, organizational project management, and project management maturity
 

 

  * Understand the essentials for effectively managing a project

 
 

  * Learn a simplified project methodology, including stages and stage gates

 
 

  * Learn how to start the project right and continue on the right path toward achieving project strategic objectives

 
 

  * Apply the learning to develop the PM and Project Detailed Plans 

  * Understand project implementation, control, handover, and closure
 
 
===== Certifications =====

PMP 

prince2

program_management

scrum 
 
 

 

**APM Certifications **

Project, Program &amp; Portfolio Management 

PMI Certifications 




===== Contact Information : =====
 
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**What is included :** 

1 hour of teacher online time per participant. 

If participants discuss in a group, the total time available shall increase. 

Example : If a group of 10 participants attend a 1 hour discussion, only 6 minutes of teacher time shall be counted from each participant's one hour available.

23 Assignments 

23 Quizzes 

3 Vivas 

1 Online Certificate 

1 Printed certificate 

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**Fees**

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PKR 50,000 per participant

Limited time and limited intake offer 

Inside Pakistan : PKR 5,000 

Outside Pakistan PKR 6,000 

Duration : 2 Months maximum from the start. 

This course requires about 115 hours of study. This is about 2 hours per day for 60 days. 

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Financial aid and student loans also available for cases which need it. Anyone can apply.