IT Project Management:(4th Edition)

Introduction to project management
Introduction to project management
The role of the project manager
The project management profession

Context and process groups
A systems view of project management
Stakeholder management
The project life cycle
Process groups

Integration management
Project Integration Management
Project charter
Monitoring and controlling project work

Scope management
Managing scope
The work breakdown structure

Time management
Project schedule
Schedule development
Controlling changes to the project schedule

Cost management
Components and principles of cost management
Cost estimating and budgeting
Cost control

Quality management
The importance of quality planning
Quality control
Improving information technology project quality

Human resource management
Managing people
Acquiring team members
Developing the team
Managing the team

Communications management
Planning for good communication
Improving project communications

Risk management
Risk management planning
Risk identification
Qualitative risk analysis
Quantitative risk analysis
Response and control

Procurement management
Procurement planning
Sellers and contracts

After completing this course, you will know how to:

Define a project and its constraints and attributes, and describe project management, describe the role of a project manager and the skills necessary to fulfill that role, and relate a brief history of project management, the Gantt chart, and the Project Management Institute.
Describe a systems approach to project management and understand organizational structures and organizational culture, understand the importance of stakeholder commitment to a project and the need for organizational standards, and describe project phases and project life cycle and the context of information technology projects.
Describe integration management, strategic planning, and methods for project selection, develop a project charter and a plan, and monitor project work and control changes in the project.
Describe the processes involved in scope management and the tools and techniques for scope planning, and define and develop a work breakdown structure (WBS).
Define schedules and activities, identify activity sequencing, and discuss activity duration estimation, discuss schedule development with the help of Gantt charts, PERT, critical path analysis, and critical chain scheduling, identify how to control changes to a project schedule, and use software to manage time.
Identify the components and principles of cost management, discuss cost estimating and budgeting and identify the techniques used for them, and discuss cost control using EVA.
Explain the processes of project quality management and describe quality assurance, discuss quality control and identify the tools and techniques to improve, and describe models to improve IT project quality.
Define human resource management and plan a project team, acquire a project team, develop a project team, and manage a project team.
Plan for effective information distribution and performance reporting, describe ways to improve project communications.
Describe the risk management processes and risk management planning, identify risks and explain the use of risk identification tools, define and discuss qualitative risk analysis, discuss the steps involved in quantitative risk analysis, and describe risk response strategies and describe how to monitor and control risks.
Describe procurement management processes and create a procurement management plan, select sellers, and administer a contract.

Prerequisites

None