How You Will Benefit

• Maintain control of your projects with proven scheduling techniques
• Deliver quality systems on time
• Plan for the unexpected
• Budget more effectively
• Keep conflict at a minimum
• Assess PM software tools

How do we do :

Criteria of a Well-Defined IT Project


Defining Scop

• Using “gap analysis” to prioritize requirements
• Time-cost-scope tradeoffs
• Optimum work flow with interviews and time and motion study.
• Inter department/division/functional  analysis
• Jointly arrive with clients for effective work flows.
  
  
  
  Project Leadership
• The project manager as an effective communicator, motivator and problem solver
  
  
  
  The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• WBS: from high-level strategy to detailed work packages
• Matching project objectives and methodology
  
  
  
  Project Scheduling: Network Logic and Dependency Analysis
• Network diagram, precedence diagram, arrow diagram
• Dependency relationships
• Defining the project’s critical path, free float and total float
  
  
  
  Estimating Uncertainty in IT Projects
• Creating realistic estimates for each work package
  
  
  
  The Integrated Project Plan
• Gantt Chart, network diagram or spreadsheet?
• Project cost or budget plan?
• Project management software examples
• Contigency plan
  
  
  
  Project Control and Reporting
• Five sources of change to project scope
• How to conduct a net impact assessment
• Reporting project status and formats
  
  
  
  Establishing Project Closure
• Securing final approvals and buy-ins
• Organizational, contractual and financial closur