IT Project+

Topic-Level Outline

Days: 5

Prerequisites: None

Unit 1 : Introduction to IT project management

Topic A: 0 An introduction to project management

A-1: Discussing project management concepts

Topic B: 0 IT project management

B-1: Discussing project management tools

B-2: Managing a project

Topic C: 0 Project management skills

C-1: Discussing project management

C-2: Identifying a project’s failure and success

Unit 2 : Scope definition

Topic A: 0 Scope definition and identifying stakeholder needs and expectations

A-1: Identifying key stakeholders

A-2: Defining stakeholder requirements

Topic B: 0 Identifying business requirements

B-1: Determining business needs

B-2: Refining business needs

B-3: Discussing informal drivers

B-4: Defining the concept

Topic C: 0 Performing a systems requirements analysis

C-1: Identifying business and functional requirements

C-2: Discussing system requirements analysis

Topic D: 0 Identifying roles and responsibilities

D-1: Identifying typical roles

Topic E: 0 Creating a scope document and stakeholder consensus

E-1: Performing risk assessment

E-2: Developing a budget

Topic F: 0 Stakeholder consensus and approval

F-1: Identifying strategies and creating scope documents

F-2: Building consensus

Unit 3 : Project planning

Topic A: 0 The planning phase

A-1: Discussing the planning phase

Topic B: 0 Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

B-1: Discussing uses of a WBS

B-2: Creating a WBS

Topic C: 0 Managing risks

C-1: Discussing project risks

C-2: Identifying risk severity criteria

C-3: Discussing risk management

Topic D: 0 Developing effort, time, and cost estimates

D-1: Estimating effort

D-2: Discussing and creating a time estimate

D-3: Discussing cost categories

D-4: Listing assumptions for creating estimates

D-5: Creating effort, time, and cost estimates

Topic E: 0 Creating a project schedule

E-1: Developing project schedules

E-2: Analyzing critical path

Topic F: 0 Creating a budget

F-1: Developing budgets

Topic G: 0 Creating a project team

G-1: Creating project teams

Unit 4 : Management plans

Topic A: 0 Creating a vendor management plan

A-1: Determining contract tasks or deliverables

A-2: Discussing vendor management

Topic B: 0 Creating a resource management plan

B-1: Creating resource management plans

Topic C: 0 Creating a communication plan

C-1: Developing a communication plan

C-2: Communicating and communication reporting

C-3: Communicating in various situations

Topic D: 0 Creating a quality management plan

D-1: Developing quality measures

D-2: Monitoring quality measures

D-3: Resolving disagreements

Topic E: 0 Creating a project management plan

E-1: Performing preliminary planning steps

Unit 5 : Execution and project closure

Topic A: 0 Project execution

A-1: Calculating Earned Value (EV) variables

A-2: Discussing budget overruns

Topic B: 0 Resources and quality management

B-1: Reconsidering schedule slippage

B-2: Identifying individuals for negotiation

B-3: Applicability of testing methods

B-4: Discussing quality management

Topic C: 0 Managing the project team

C-1: Providing feedback

C-2: Discussing reasons for poor performance

C-3: Creating project teams and managing team performance

C-4: Managing a team

Topic D: 0 Managing change

D-1: Preventing scope creep

D-2: Controlling change

D-3: Communicating during change

D-4: Justifying changes

D-5: Handling scope creep

Topic E: 0 Project closure

E-1: Discussing project closure

E-2: Discussing the closure phase

E-3: Discussing the project report and lessons learned