Strategic Approaches to Managing IT Projects


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Are you looking to enhance your project management skills? Are you looking for new approaches to better manage IT projects? As you proceed through this course, you will learn new procedures and techniques that will improve your project management skills. You will learn new practices for process planning and systems management planning. You will also gain insight on how to better resource for IT projects, and understand the resourcing challenges unique to IT projects. This course will also show you how to more effectively track IT projects.

Target Audience
This course is specifically targeted to experienced IT managers, and managers who support IT project managers. Company executives, project managers, and functional managers with employees assigned to project teams will also benefit from this course.

Expected Duration (hours)
5.0

Lesson Objectives

Strategic Practices for IT Project Management

  • recognize the importance of understanding strategic practices to managing IT projects.
  • select examples of strategies for managing IT projects.
  • identify the steps involved in creating a strategic process plan for an IT project.
  • develop a strategic process plan for a given IT project.
  • identify the issues that must be identified when conducting strategic systems planning.
  • develop a strategic systems plan, given a scenario.

    • Successful IT Project Resourcing

  • recognize the benefits of understanding IT project resourcing.
  • match the three components of the human resources management process to examples of each.
  • match the resourcing techniques to examples of when they should be applied.
  • apply appropriate techniques to successfully resolve resourcing challenges on a given IT project.
  • identify examples of reasons for using consultants on an IT project.
  • determine if a consultant is required for an IT project, given a scenario.

    • Tracking IT Project Performance

  • recognize the benefits of tracking IT project performance.
  • match the three tasks of successful project tracking for IT projects to examples of each.
  • sequence the steps involved in status reporting for an IT project.
  • apply the steps involved in status reporting for a given IT project scenario.
  • sequence the steps involved in tracking multiple IT projects.
  • apply the steps for successfully tracking multiple IT projects, given a scenario.

    • Course Number:
    PROJ0362