Description

Managing a project requires first of all mastering the techniques and basic rules of the project manager profession. But this first approach is supplemented by a practical, even opportunistic approach, which must integrate the different components, act and decide proactively.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

This course is aimed at IT project managers, user project managers, project owners who want to learn more about the "Managing an IT project" course (ref. GPI).

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Build and present the budget for your project

Anticipate hazards on the project using the monitoring dashboard

Advance the planning of your project within constraints

Build a motivating system of objectives and productivity measurement

Manage discrepancies by now a common vision

Training program

• Budget and profitability of the project
  • Building a Business Case: the information system delivered by the project, its risks and its gains.
  • Justify the cost of the project: cost of the investment, calculation of ROI.
  • Report expenses: simply measure costs and justify them.
  • Living with an evolving forecast: approach changes in needs and platforms as a constant.
  • Dashboards for monitoring developments.
  • Case study Build and present a project budget and the associated reporting dashboard.
  • Predict and manage development requests.
• Deadlines and decision
  • Optimization under deadline constraints: reconciling realism and respect for objectives, building a project.
  • Know how to present your project (defend it).
  • Progressive and adaptive planning.
  • The progressive definition of feasible and motivating objectives, the measurement of productivity.
  • Monitoring deadlines and decisions: the operational choices of the Productivity triptych, Quality and Deadlines.
  • Case study Adapt a project plan to an external deadline constraint.
  • Build the schedule for a phase.
  • Face a difficult situation and defend your solution.
• Lead a team towards project objectives
  • Welcome and motivate: know your collaborator, define the rules with them, establish your authority.
  • Conflicts and divergences: tensions due to project constraints, imprecision of roles or to personalities.
  • Productivity, quality, deadlines and convergence.
  • The notion of common vision, its practical reality.
  • Case study Internal resources and external resources, choice and harmonization.
  • The integration of a specialist.
  • An observation of a drop in productivity.
• Win with business
  • Capturing real needs: difficulties in expressing users, lack of knowledge of the subject by the project.
  • Communicating a vision in the company: knowing how to state this early and realistically. what will be the IS delivered by the project.
  • Manage change: set up permanent monitoring of foreseeable deployment difficulties.
  • Help the company to take ownership of the results of the project.
  • Case study On a case study, the trainees address the concrete questions asked to the project manager.
  • Their proposals are compared to the rules and recommendations of the standards project management.