Managing Efficiencies of IT Projects


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Are you delivering quality application systems? Do you know how you can ensure that your projects deliver value to your organization? The key to delivering value is "process." Organizations are becoming more aware of the importance of following the same process for each project. In this course, you will learn how to converge methodologies with other project management techniques and process management techniques that address common application development problems. You will also learn what you can do to manage development problems and what steps you can take to increase the quality of application systems.

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

Rapid Application Development (RAD) in IT Projects

  • recognize the importance of applying rapid application development to IT projects.
  • sequence tasks associated with each phase of the RAD life cycle.
  • match the criteria for determining RAD feasibility to examples of each.
  • determine whether RAD is feasible for a given IT project.
  • match the members of a RAD team to their corresponding roles and responsibilities.
  • apply appropriate criteria to select a RAD team for a given IT project.

    • Managing Risks in IT Projects

  • recognize the importance of understanding how various techniques are used to help manage project risks.
  • match the types of risks associated with IT projects to their examples.
  • sequence the steps of an IT project risk management process.
  • implement a project risk management process for a given IT project.
  • match the steps of the problem-solving process to their examples.
  • apply the steps to the problem-solving process for a specified IT project.
  • match the quality management processes that reduce risk in IT projects to their examples.

    • Course Number:
    PROJ0355