Functions of IT Project Managers


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
William Shakespeare wrote, "Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great; some achieve greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them." Good information technology (IT) project managers are trained, not born. As an IT project manager, you can achieve greatness by improving and developing your own skills through continued education and experience. Your management skills will become better each time a project is delivered successfully. The need for skilled IT project managers continues to grow as technology continues to soar. As you proceed through this course, you will learn valuable techniques and methods for applying these techniques to your projects. You will acquire a knowledge and essential skills needed to deliver projects successfully, time after time.

Target Audience
This course is specifically targeted at IT project managers, and IT professionals preparing to take on IT project management responsibilities. Managers who support IT project managers, top management, and high-level executives will also benefit from this course.

Expected Duration (hours)
4.5

Lesson Objectives

Foundations of IT Project Management

  • recognize the benefit of learning the foundations of IT project management.
  • identify the personal skills necessary for successful IT project managers.
  • use effective personal skills to manage a situation involving an IT project.
  • identify examples of the actions that can be taken to manage technical aspects of an IT project.

    • IT Project Initiation

  • recognize the benefit of understanding how to evaluate, select, and organize IT projects.
  • match essential criteria in the evaluation and selection of IT projects to examples.
  • recognize the organizational steps necessary in IT project organization.
  • apply the steps to effectively organize a given IT project.

    • Staffing IT Project Teams

  • recognize the benefits of knowing how to develop and maintain an effective team of IT professionals.
  • match criteria for selecting IT project team members to examples.
  • apply the criteria for selecting IT project team members to evaluate a candidate for a given project.
  • identify strategies for managing IT project teams.
  • apply the strategies for managing IT project teams.
  • match strategies that can help IT project managers retain staff to examples of those strategies.
  • identify guidelines for effective communication with project teams.
  • apply IT guidelines for effective communication with project teams, in a given scenario.

    • Course Number:
    PROJ0352