Project Management for Information Systems ISI-1439E

Module 1Course Introduction

Module 2Project Basics

• Basic concepts of project management including project workflow, roles, and constraints

Module 3Project Scope

• Introducing the project charter as a pre-flight checklist, covering objectives and requirements, constraints, stakeholders, product description. We’ll also cover the scope statement and creation of the Work Breakdown Structure.

Module 4System Development Lifecycles

• We’ll cover the most common SDLC models including predictive, agile, and hybrid, dive into the common phases and deliverables, and discuss the benefits of using a defined lifecycle model

Module 5Project Schedule and Resources

• How is a schedule developed? Through defining activities and resource needs, sequencing activities, and estimating durations, we’ll see how to pull together a realistic project schedule and set up a team with the right resources to get the job done.

Module 6Project Budget

• We’ll cover methods for estimating costs, and determining a realistic budget

Module 7Project Risk

• Covers the basics of risk management, from risk identification and analysis to development of risk responses using industry standard risk response strategies, in order to address the uncertainties faced by your projects.

Module 8Project Communications

• A project manager spends a vast majority of their time communicating. This critical skill is broken down to look at the potential barriers disrupting the communication process, and strategies a project manager can use to maximize the effectiveness of their project communication with a wide variety of stakeholders and situations.

Module 9Leadership

• We’ll look at the importance of leadership for a project manager, and how this role can change through the life of a project, including team building, coaching, motivating, influencing, and developing the team. This includes the concept of looking back periodically using a review process to make continuous improvements.