COURSE 4025 | 2-DAY SESSION
Hands-On IT Project Management

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Tools and Techniques to successfully execute projects and deliver on customer expectations every time

This two-day course provides a unique combination of skills development and tool/technique utilization critical for IT Project Success. First gain a solid foundation in PMI's Project Management Framework. Then acquire the skills to use the best emerging, cutting edge IT Project Management tools and techniques available. Taught only by a PMP-certified instructor.

Learn how to:

• Extract the correct Development Lifecycle Method for your project to insure project success (there are eight – do you know what they are?)
  
• Harvest the best approach, hands down, for elaborating requirements and capturing the ‘Voice of the Customer’
  
• Find and utilize the common points between current Quality frameworks including PMI, CMMI, Six Sigma, ITIL, CobiT and RUP to run your projects successfully
  
• Execute the most effective approach to managing high risk, high uncertainty projects
  
• Insure the accuracy of your timeline estimates. Acquire skills on two specific tools to estimate your timeline with data and fact
  
• Utilize the five key metrics in the Project Framework to ensure project success
  
• Give management clear visibility into your project processes and results
  
• Reap the benefits of the most effective method yet devised to ensure continuous improvement in your organization
  
• Find and remove the ‘hidden factory’ in projects and impact your organization with top line improvements in customer satisfaction and bottom line cost reductions
  
  

Real-World examples, case studies, and class exercises:

This class is a stimulating combination of class interaction, case studies, group exercises and workshops. Each is designed to allow you to easily grasp new concepts and techniques. Learn the methods that immediately allow you to:

• Extract the real project requirements
  
• Set customer expectation and get customer buy-in
  
• Manage schedule and resource conflict
  
• Identify critical risks and manage them
  
• Plan the work and work the plan — create the WBS
  
• Make Change Management work
  
• Manage Configuration — a key to product quality
  
• Manage the moving target and address changing market demands

Who Should attend:
Whatever level of experience, you will leave this course with the working knowledge you need to do an effective job managing any project. This course is a must for:

• Project Managers
  
• Technical Managers
  
• Business Analysts
  
• Developers
  
• Programmers
  
• Consultants
  
• Software Architects
  
• IT Managers/Directors
  
• Power users, or users that support IT
  
  
  

ASPE has been reviewed and approved as a CPE training provider for the National Assoication of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). 12 CPEs are awarded upon full completion of Hands-on Project Management.