At-a-Glance:
Course Length:
4 days
Course Number & Level:
352.IPR4 – Proficient
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 28
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 2.8
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
- Project Integration Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Time Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Communication Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Procurement Management
Tracks:
IT Project Practicum
Course Overview
IT Project Practicum is the capstone course for completion of the Master's Certificate in IT Project Management from PM College. This four-day capstone course takes participants on a journey through the entire life cycle of an IT project using the initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and close out processes of project management. Participants will be given a sophisticated case study, which will require them to utilize the knowledge gained from the previous courses. The case will take participants through the team building process, analysis and development of project tools and documents, execution of their plans, through close out of the project. Participants will experience the real-life challenges of meeting deliverables with tight timelines, dealing with group development issues, managing conflict, and meeting customer expectations. Participants are strongly encouraged to complete all of the previous required Master's certificate courses in the program prior to enrolling in this course.
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Develop and implement effective team building and team maintenance approaches.
- Conduct an effective requirements analysis effort using the project overview document.
- Conduct an effective stakeholder assessment.
- Develop a communication plan for the project.
- Develop a comprehensive list of requirements for the project
- Apply estimating methodologies to determine project costs.
- Develop a project schedule and analyze the schedule for critical path and float.
- Develop and integrate a risk management plan for the project.
- Apply conflict management and negotiation skills.
- Develop an executive briefing project for the project.
- Conduct a comprehensive project closeout exercise.
Course Outline
Building the Project Team
- Explain the identifying characteristics of high performing teams
- Describe the impact of individual behavior styles on team development
- Identify team behaviors related to team development
- Explain the role of the team charter in establishing the team guidelines
- Explain the importance and contents of the project notebook
Initiating the Project
- Identify the components of a Project Overview Document (POD)
- Describe the key components of a communications plan
- Explain the importance of stakeholder analysis
Requirements Validation
- Define project scope
- Explain the process of refining requirements
- Explain the best practices of developing and using work breakdown structures
Developing the Project Budget
- Explain methods of developing quality estimates
- Describe components of a good estimate
- Identify resources to use when creating an estimate
- Explain techniques to validate the estimate Developing the Project Schedule
- Define schedule terminology
- Describe schedule views and their uses
- Explain network construction and calculations
- Identify network issues
Developing the Risk Management Plan
- Describe the components that comprise the risk management process
- Explain the process of identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, mitigating, and controlling risks
Project Implementation
- Describe the various metrics used to establish a project baseline
- Define components used to track project progress
- Define the components of schedule management
- Define the components used to track risk
- Define the elements of a change control process
- Describe the principles of interest-based negotiation approach
Project Closeout
- Describe the benefits of conducting a project closeout
- Describe organizational and customer project closeout activities