Managing the Execution and Control of IT Projects


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
Did you know that the average IT project has cost overruns of nearly 200 percent, and that almost 30 percent of all IT projects fail? Why do you think IT projects are so vulnerable to cost overruns and failure? How can you ensure that your project does not end up as one of these statistics? You can avoid being a statistic by managing project scope, cost, and scheduling. As you go through this course, you will learn valuable strategies for managing your project. You will learn about tools to manage scope, time, and cost that will aid in the successful control and execution of your project.

Target Audience
This course is specifically targeted at 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)
5.5

Lesson Objectives

Managing the Execution of IT Projects

  • recognize the benefits of being able to execute an IT project.
  • sequence the steps to creating an understanding of a project's scope.
  • apply the steps to create an understanding of the project scope with the team and client sponsor in an IT project scenario.
  • identify the steps to updating a Gantt chart.
  • use a Gantt chart to track the progress on a project.
  • identify the components of a precedence diagramming method (PDM).
  • calculate the critical path based on the PDM for a given IT project.
  • identify the steps to determine the resources for an IT project team.
  • apply the steps to determine the resources for a specified IT project team.
  • sequence the steps to calculate an IT project's resource budget.
  • calculate the resource budget for a given IT project.

    • Managing the Control of IT Projects

  • recognize the benefits of managing the control of IT projects.
  • match the sections found in a project report to their examples.
  • sequence the steps of the change control process.
  • apply the steps of the change control process.
  • match the corrective actions that result from an IT project change request to their examples.

    • Course Number:
    PROJ0354