Project Management for IT Professionals

Length: 4 days
PDUs:  28
PMI Activity ID#: 000417



Prerequisites
This course assumes some experience as a project team member. However, no specific prior PM training is required.

Who Should Attend
This course will be of special value to project managers and team leads who want a solid, guiding PM framework, experienced project managers who are looking for a refresher on foundational concepts and techniques, managers of project mangers, functional managers with project responsibility, and Project Management Office staff.

The Challenge
All too often Project Management training focuses only on passing an exam. Unfortunately, this kind of PM training does not necessarily provide what is needed for the actual work at hand: managing projects. What we need is PM training that focuses on those concepts, tools and techniques that actually help us to get the job done. When we leave the course we want to feel as though we can immediately use what we've just learned. Where can we find such training?

The Solution
Project Management for Technical Professionals delivers practical, hands-on training in essential project management concepts and techniques that every project manager must know. While based on PMBOK® concepts, all topics are supplemented with field-proven best practices that are effective in any project setting. Students learn how to structure a project, establish and manage scope, create an effective schedule, identify and manage risk, control costs, deliver meaningful status reports and more. The format is truly multimodal, with a mixture of exercises, group discussions, individual discovery and lecture. Every student receives a set of useful Project Management templates. Whether new to Project Management or building on existing skills, participants will return to their workplace better equipped to bring their projects to a successful conclusion. Topics covered during this course include:

• Project lifecycle and project environment
• Getting a project off to a good start
• Knowing who your stakeholders are
• Working with estimates
• Defining and managing scope, schedule and budget
• The Communication Strategy
• Procurement; Resource Planning; Quality
• Managing Project Risk
• Status Reports, Project Metrics and Earned Value
• Change Control; working with baselines
• Managing stakeholders and vendors
• Controlling cost
• Product delivery
• Lessons Learned

Instructor Background:
A certified Project Management Professional, the instructor for this course is highly experienced in all aspects of project management.  As a past member of the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Chapter of the Project Management Institute, he has presented numerous workshops and seminars at PMI events, most recently as the keynote speaker at the Palmetto Chapter Symposium in 2010.  He brings that experience with him into the classroom, and uses an endless supply of stories to bring the concepts of project management alive for his students.  Just in the past few years he has trained hundreds of students in both fundamental and advanced project management topics through delivery of courses and workshops.  His unique take on the central importance of Business Value, human factors and implementation of best practice in project management influences his entire curriculum, which takes students far beyond standard Project Management instruction.

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