5 Topics
5 Days
31 Sessions
Programme Overview
Training Description
Who Should Attend
- Software Development Managers
- Product Managers and Product Owners
- ScrumMasters and Agile Practitioners
- IT Consultants
- Digital Transformation Professionals
- Cybersecurity Project Professionals
- Infrastructure and Cloud Professionals
- Data and Technology Professionals
- Quality Assurance Professionals
- IT Support and Operations Managers
- Professionals transitioning into IT project management
Session Objectives
- Understand when to use different project lifecycles for different IT projects
- Reflect on the importance of enabling effective collaboration in IT projects
- Perform core practices used in both predictive and agile IT management approaches
- Recognize and tackle common issues that can occur in IT project management
- Control IT project progress and report status appropriately
About the Course
The Seminar on IT Project Management provides participants with practical knowledge and modern techniques for successfully planning, executing, monitoring, and closing information technology projects. The seminar addresses the unique challenges of IT projects, including rapidly changing technologies, evolving requirements, cybersecurity concerns, resource constraints, stakeholder expectations, integration challenges, and delivery risks.
Participants will explore how to apply project management principles across software development, digital transformation, cloud implementation, cybersecurity, systems integration, infrastructure, data, and technology modernization projects. The seminar combines project management frameworks with Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery approaches to help professionals improve project predictability, collaboration, quality, and business value.
Curriculum & Topics
5 Topics | 31 Sessions
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Workshop 1.1:
Characteristics of projects
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Workshop 1.2:
Fundamental concepts of project management
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Workshop 1.3:
IT project lifecycle - core phases performed in IT projects
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Workshop 1.4:
IT Product Management
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Workshop 1.5:
Key IT Project Considerations - Globally Distributed Teams
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Workshop 1.6:
IT project initiation - establishing the project charter
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Workshop 2.1:
Requirements Engineering
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Workshop 2.2:
Stakeholder management
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Workshop 2.3:
Requirements elicitation
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Workshop 2.4:
Quality factors in requirements engineering
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Workshop 2.5:
Key roles: Product Manager - Product Owner - Business Analyst
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Workshop 2.6:
Managing emergent requirements
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Workshop 3.1:
Software Engineering Methods
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Workshop 3.2:
Work Breakdown Structures
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Workshop 3.3:
Building the project schedule - critical path management
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Workshop 3.4:
Establishing the release plan
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Workshop 3.5:
Key roles: Technical Architect, Designer, Developer Quality Assurance Specialist (QA)
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Workshop 3.6:
IT Project Quality Management - planning, executing and controlling quality
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Workshop 3.7:
Developing the Quality Assurance Plan (QA plan)
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Workshop 4.1:
Understanding IT Project Costs
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Workshop 4.2:
Software engineering teamwork - developing and managing the team
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Workshop 4.3:
Managing uncertainty - addressing risks
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Workshop 4.4:
The challenges with using Waterfall (predictive project management)
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Workshop 4.5:
Agile Software Development - values and principles
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Workshop 4.6:
Adaptive (Agile) Project Management (SCRUM)
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Workshop 5.1:
Preparing the progress report - traditional approach
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Workshop 5.2:
Progress dashboards using Earned Value Management
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Workshop 5.3:
Controlling value generation using Scrum (Agile) - Reviews
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Workshop 5.4:
Measuring Success - requirements traceability matrix
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Workshop 5.5:
Measuring Success - confirming value generation
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Workshop 5.6:
Continuous improvement - Lessons Learned & Retrospectives
