Managing IT Projects: Project Planning and Execution

In a Project Planning and Execution '' you will learn about project activity definition time management project critical path and cost management. Planning is critical to the success of a project. Project managers must develop and maintain plans for both human and resource management as well as for communication risk and procurement. With proper planning in place the project can be executed.

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Duration: 4 hours Training Presented in: English

Audience

Six months previous experience in an IT project-intensive environment or six months experience managing IT projects.

Objective

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Identify features of a work breakdown structure.
• Identify methods for resource scheduling and acquisition.
• Identify the critical path from a network diagram.
• Identify quality standards for the project and how to achieve them.
• Identify requirements for project integration management.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Prepare for Planning

• Identify features of activity definition and sequencing.
• Identify ways of calculating activity duration estimates.
• Identify characteristics of a Gantt chart.
• Identify the critical path from a network diagram.
• Simulation Overview.

Unit 2: The Project Management Plan

• Identify methods for resource scheduling and acquisition.
• Identify requirements for communication planning.
• Identify requirements for procurement and solicitation planning.
• Identify the need for performance measurement baselines.
• Simulation Overview.

Unit 3: Project Execution

• Identify components of solicitation and contract administration.
• Identify characteristics of human resource management in project management.
• Identify how to calculate cost and schedule variance.
• Identify how to generate status reports.
• Simulation overview.

Duration

4 Hours

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

• Managing IT Projects: Project Control and Closure
• Managing IT Projects: Project Fundamentals and Initiation