I.T. Project Management Training

IT projects are very challenging; this training course can help to make a real difference to the way they are managed. Our courses will provide you with real practical help to manage your IT projects.

PMIS has delivered IT Project Management training for well over a decade. We only provide project management training, and can supply excellent customer references .

£895 plus VAT - 3 days

Whether your use a  Waterfall or Iterative development approach, all IT projects require direction, focus and management. This course will show you how to achieve the right balance between the technical execution of IT projects and the direction and control that effective project management must bring.

The course will teach project management best practices in an IT environment - it will demonstrate

• the root causes of common challenges on IT projects
• how to maximise definition and control while minimising paperwork
• how to plan business projects efficiently focusing on key measures of success
• how to simplify business cases while maximising the return from this key task
• why and how communication is often ineffective between users and developers
• how and why our approach to planning projects is sometimes unrealistic and flawed

• Results of research on complex IT projects;
• factors for success and challenges on IT projects;

• Programme Boards; Business / Customer Owners;
• Project  Sponsor;   Programme and / or Project Managers; System Architect; Stakeholder Mapping and Management.
• Developing improved 'team based roles' and responsibilities across the project; 'ways of working' for your project team.

• Structures and Processes.

• Benefits Realisation Management: 
• Benefits identification, structuring and benefits realisation planning.

• Improving quality while reducing its quantity; 
• Improving definition of and separating out: goals; objectives and outcomes. 
• Improving the presentation of business cases to decision makers and stakeholders.

• Improving communication between users and analysts;
• minimum components for effective process mapping;
• relationship between process mapping and requirements capture.

• Structuring requirements; business and users requirements;
• developing basis for change control and acceptance;
• improving communication between analysts and users dramatically;
• use cases.

• Separating risk from estimating uncertainty;
• improving risk identification;
• separating assessment from analysis;
• mitigation and contingency planning;
• integrating the outputs into the mainstream project

• Defining projects - the statements of work. 
• Product based work breakdown structures;
• using the WBS to define clear responsibilities.

• Improving estimating dramatically;
• understanding estimating challenges and weaknesses.

• Scoping UAT;
• linking UAT planning to requirements;
• executing and managing UAT.

• Key controls on IT project;
• bringing objectivity to measures of performance;
• key metrics to employ.

• Simplifying review and controls on projects;
• maximising visuals;
• key broader measures of success - maximising visibility and minimising overhead.

• Developing an effective and simple change control process.