Complex IT Project Management

Course Length: 3 days

Course Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Professional Development Units (PDU's): 21

Current Schedule: This course is available to corporate customers and government agencies at this time. Scheduled on demand in a public forum. If you are interested in attending this course in a public session, call Mindavation at 1-866-888-MIND to be put on our wait list.

Course Price: Corporate customers and government agencies - please call 1-866-888-MIND for pricing of on-site courses.

Course Description: This course is designed for experienced project managers who want to take their skills to the next level. Managing large, complex and multiple IT projects strains the project manager in many ways. Weaknesses in your project management skills can quickly bring a complex project to its knees. Learn from instructors who have experienced firsthand the challenge (and rewards!) of complex project management and how to successfully implement large/multiple projects. Mindavation courses are highly interactive with challenging IT based case studies and lectures filled with real life work scenarios. Students will team together to apply techniques learned from the lectures. Instructors for this course have over 10 years of project management experience in multiple industries.

Key Learning Objectives

• Understand how large, complex and multiple projects need to be managed differently than smaller isolated projects
• Develop techniques to manage and coordinate project managers, subcontractors, customers, team members and vendors
• Learn methods to handle complex cost constraints
• Manage scope in a rapid changing business environment
• How to handle multiple resource constraints and keep resources for your project(s)
• Devise control mechanisms to ensure complex projects remain on time, within budget, and within predetermined quality metrics
• Know how to identify a project that's in trouble and how to recover it
• Identifying, managing and reporting risk
• Techniques to manage project managers effectively
• Dealing with contract management - Writing and responding to RFP's, and writing great contracts
• Understand various implementation techniques

All PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas are covered in this course:
Project Communications Management
Project Cost Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Integration Management
Project Procurement Management
Project Quality Management
Project Risk Management
Project Scope Management
Project Time Management

Course Prerequisites: A minimum of four years project management experience is required

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