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IT Project Management Essentials: Introduction to IT Project Management
by Skillsoft
The successful delivery of information technology (IT) projects requires managers to adapt project management processes and tools to account for the specific characteristics of the IT environment. By applying these processes and tools in a way that suits the project type and complexity, managers can significantly improve project success rates. This course describes how IT projects differ from other project types and points to the benefits of applying project management principles to IT projects. It provides an overview of the activities you carry out in each of the phases of an IT project and describes key project management tools.Audience: IT project managers and IT professionals preparing to take on IT project management responsibilities, as well as managers who support IT project managersObjectives: IT Project Management Essentials: Introduction to IT Project Management recognize the benefits of being able to use project management tools and techniques for IT projects distinguish between characteristics of IT projects and non-IT projects distinguish between activities that are carried out in each IT project phase match key project management tools to their descriptions Duration: 1 ...
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Project Management Fundamentals
by Skillsoft - Business
The evolution of business strategies has increased the importance of management having a thorough understanding of the products they produce. More and more employees are getting promoted from within to become project managers as they fully understand what they are trying to produce and how best to meet the quality and quantity requirements set forth by upper management. Project management as a process is the supervision and control of the work required to complete the project deliverable. Using established project management processes coupled with the experience and skills of experienced workers has allowed employers to adjust their mind-set when developing management and leadership skills from within. This course will enable someone who is not a professional project manager to learn the fundamentals of project management so he will be able to manage projects related to his area of responsibility within the organization. ...
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IT Project Management Essentials: Initiating and Planning IT Projects
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If you want your IT project to complete successfully, you need to get it off to a good start. During the early stages of a project – the initiating and planning phases – a project manager should clarify objectives and requirements and create a project plan that delineates, among other things, what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how much it will likely cost. Although the plan may change as the project progresses, it’s important to get down as much detail as you can at the very beginning. This course describes how to initiate an IT project effectively. It then focuses on three key areas of planning – developing a work breakdown structure, schedule planning, and cost planning.Audience: IT project managers and IT professionals preparing to take on IT project management responsibilities, as well as managers who support IT project managersObjectives: IT Project Management Essentials: Initiating and Planning IT Projects match steps you take when initiating an IT project to examples of how they are carried out sequence examples of the steps in developing a work breakdown structure recognize the benefits of being able to develop an effective work breakdown structure sequence activities for developing a project schedule match project cost estimating techniques to their descriptions Duration: 1 ...
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Transitioning into a Project Management Role
by Skillsoft - Business
Many people find themselves thrust into a project management role with no formal training or experience. When this occurs it is important to be prepared to deal with the significant changes in your role. Your responsibilities broaden from managing yourself to managing others from short-term to long-term goals and from tangible to intangible issues. Time and experience will develop and refine your project management skills but this course will prime you for the process of transitioning into a project management role. It will discuss the changes a new project manager may face including the development of a successful project team. ...
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Project Management for Non-Project Managers Simulation
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The likelihood an employee will be elevated to a position of authority within a project team increases as the employee gains experience and tenure. Yet experience alone is seldom sufficient to guarantee a smooth transition. Success is dependent upon a number of management and leadership skills that potential project managers must quickly come to master if they hope to fulfill upper management's expectations. The simulation Project Management for Non-project Managers is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to practice project management skills in a secure, virtual environment before facing the challenge of an actual, real-world project. Over the course of the simulation, participants will be tested on the objectives of transitioning to project manager, managing an imposed project team, demonstrating effective leadership, monitoring project activities and quality, maintaining control of a project, and problem solving and recovering. The simulation Project Management for Non-project Managers comprises three scenarios and is based on the SkillSoft Series "Project Management for Non-project Managers." Throughout the simulation, links are provided to the following SkillSoft courses: PROJ_01_a01, PROJ_01_a02, PROJ_01_a04, and PROJ_01_a05.Audience: Managers and staff members who wish to acquire the necessary skills to successfully manage small to medium sized projectsObjectives: Project Management for Non-project Managers Simulation transitioning to project manager. managing an imposed project team. demonstrating effective leadership. monitoring project activities and quality. maintaining control of a project. problem solving and recovering. Duration: 0.5 ...
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Managing a Project
by Skillsoft - Business
The factors of a successful project almost always end up depending on how much money and time is needed to create a product worthy of the customer. This course will help you manage the constraints of time money and schedules and how they relate to the overall quality of your project and product. ...
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Troubleshooting and Closing the Project
by Skillsoft - Business
The factors that can affect a project are numerous and often hard to pinpoint. Conducting meetings and using advanced tools such as formulas and graphs allow the project manager to properly define the health or status of the project. This course outlines how to conduct effective meetings and presents some troubleshooting tools that can be used during the project life cycle. It also presents the information required to close the project which is the last stage in project management. ...
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Initiating and Planning a Project
by Skillsoft - Business
Initiating and Planning are crucial phases in developing and executing any successful project. Companies that are embarking on a new project initiative must assign people to gather facts and decide what exactly they want to produce and how they are going to produce it. This course examines which factors should weigh in during the project selection process and how to effectively plan a project from beginning to end. ...
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Coaching Performance
by Skillsoft - Business
Barry is new at quality control. He completed three weeks of training but he has already made two major errors that cost the firm $3000. Hes obviously upset and discouraged over his shaky start. If you were Barrys supervisor what would you do? Situations like this one can cause managers to fret and fuss and begin talking about disciplinary action. However leaders take a different approach. A leader would take the time to coach Barry and find out whats really going on--perhaps determining that three weeks of training wasnt quite enough. Or perhaps discovering that Barrys mother died recently and hes struggling to concentrate. Or offering to find a mentor for Barry until the situation eases. Taking the time to evaluate a situation and making an action plan is part of the process of coaching for performance that youll explore in this course. Youll learn when its appropriate to mentor train counsel or discipline an employee and youll be given guidelines and tips on how to perform each of these tasks in the most effective manner possible. ...
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Introduction to Information Security
by Skillsoft
Information security plays an important part in the daily work of all users, from the office user to the remote user, regardless of their role in the organization. This course examines corporate security and how it affects end users, along with the best ways to secure your work environment, whether you work in an office, on the go, or at home. This course also examines security issues surrounding e-mail, the Internet, and social engineering.Audience: Everyone in an organization regardless of job role who uses computing devices and the InternetObjectives: Introduction to Information Security describe the role of the end user in maintaining information security recognize policies for creating a secure workspace environment recognize policies for remote users recognize your role in maintaining information security in the workplace differentiate between workplace and remote user security policies Duration: 1 ...
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