Managing Multiple IT Projects


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
As a project manager for IT projects, do you find you are managing more than one project at a time? Multi-project environments are becoming increasingly common. This course will focus on the new skills and techniques that will prepare you and your team for multiple project work. In addition, it will teach you management techniques for the multi-project IT workplace.

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)
5.5

Lesson Objectives

Managing a Portfolio of IT Projects

  • recognize the benefits of effectively managing a portfolio of multiple IT projects.
  • match the stakeholders to the method of overcoming their feelings of resistance to the portfolio IT project environment.
  • sequence examples of the steps to organizing a portfolio of IT projects.
  • apply the steps for organizing a portfolio of IT projects, in a given scenario.
  • match severity codes for IT project issues to their examples.
  • sequence examples of the steps to resolve issues in an IT project portfolio.
  • apply the steps to resolve portfolio IT project issues, in a given scenario.
  • sequence examples of the steps for assessing resources across a portfolio of IT projects.

    • Enterprise IT Project Management

  • recognize the benefits of practicing enterprise IT project management.
  • match the elements in the project management protocol to their examples.
  • identify examples of enterprise-based project management techniques.
  • apply techniques to manage enterprise-based projects, in a given IT project scenario.
  • identify examples of the steps for controlling multiple projects.
  • recommend changes to control multiple projects, in a given IT enterprise scenario.
  • identify examples of IT project prioritization techniques.
  • apply the techniques to prioritize projects, given an IT enterprise project scenario.

    • Course Number:
    PROJ0365