IT Management

IT Project Management

This seminar is designed to help the growing number of people who are pressed into service as part-time project managers. Students who attend this seminar will leave up to speed on project management terminology, and will know how to avoid common blunders, and yet deliver the project with some speed and ease. This class is also a good way for IT workers in parallel disciplines to gain insight into what a project manager does, or should be doing.

Objectives
Upon completion attendees will understand:

Process, pseudo-process, and anti-process. How to you tell the difference and where do you draw the line? We will supply you with some guidelines so that you can sift through the alphabet soup of CMM, TQM, 6-sigma, and PMP.
Similarities between waterfall and iterative methods
Management by checkpoints, not by phases.
Similarities and differences between IT projects and other projects
The importance of metrics
The important questions to ask, rather than the answers to give:
Pros and Cons of outsourced and subcontracted work
How to Determine Project documentation
The importance of testing, and how to design a test plan
Basic Terminology

Duration 1 day

Who Should Attend
Current and future IT Project Managers. Programmers, testers, analysts, and first and second level managers who want to get a better grasp of project management techniques and industry practices. This class is particularly suited to people who may be taking over a project that is already in process, or people who are changing jobs into a project manager role.

Class Format: Lecture, group discussion, exercise

Instructor: George Kelly Flanagin or Susan R. Jacobs, or Dr. Pamela Kiecker or John N. Pastore Jr.