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Functions of IT Project Management
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William Shakespeare wrote, "Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great; some achieve greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them." Good information technology (IT) project managers are trained, not born. As an IT project manager, you can achieve greatness by improving and developing your own skills through continued education and experience. Your management skills will become better each time a project is delivered successfully. The need for skilled IT project managers continues to grow as technology continues to soar. As you proceed through this course, you will learn valuable techniques and methods for applying these techniques to your projects. You will acquire a knowledge and essential skills needed to deliver projects successfully, time after time.Audience: This course is specifically targeted at IT project managers, and IT professionals preparing to take on IT project management responsibilities. Managers who support IT project managers, top management, and high-level executives will also benefit from this course.Objectives: Foundations of IT Project Management recognize the benefit of learning the foundations of IT project management. identify the personal skills necessary for successful IT project managers. use effective personal skills to manage a situation involving an IT project. identify examples of the actions that can be taken to manage technical aspects of an IT project.IT Project Initiation recognize the benefit of understanding how to evaluate, select, and organize IT projects. match essential criteria in the evaluation and selection of IT projects to examples. recognize the organizational steps necessary in IT project organization. apply the steps to effectively organize a given IT project.Staffing IT Project Teams recognize the benefits of knowing how to develop and maintain an effective team of IT professionals. match criteria for selecting IT project team members to examples. apply the criteria for selecting IT project team members to evaluate a candidate for a given project. identify strategies for managing IT project teams. apply the strategies for managing IT project teams. match strategies that can help IT project managers retain staff to examples of those strategies. identify guidelines for effective communication with project teams. apply IT guidelines for effective communication with project teams, in a given scenario. Duration: 4.5 ...
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Implementing SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers a combination of powerful Business Intelligence services to help clients develop and manage sophisticated business intelligence solutions. With the Database Engine at its core, SQL Server 2008 offers integration, reporting, and analysis tools to access and process the data necessary to create business solutions. This course gives an overview of the importance of business intelligence in today's competitive market and introduces the capabilities provided by SQL Server 2008 Integration Services, Reporting Services, and Analysis Services. It then focuses on the use of SQL Integration Services as a data integration solution and outlines the installation and configuration of this server component. The course also covers the key utilities used to configure and manage Integration Services, including the SQL Server Management Studio, Business Intelligence Development Studio, configuration wizards, and command-line tools. This course is one of a series in the SkillSoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Microsoft exam: 70-448 T'S: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance. Passing this exam will earn the learner Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance certification.Audience: IT professionals working to develop and maintain Microsoft SQL Server 2008 business intelligence solutions or those pursuing a career as a database administrator or developerObjectives: Implementing SQL Server 2008 Integration Services identify Business Intelligence technologies recognize how to install Integration Services recognize the features of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services recognize the tools in the Integration Services studios recognize how to create a data package verify and manage a data package use the SQL Server 2008 Integration Services tools Duration: 1.5 ...
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Lean Concepts
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Most business processes are 90% waste and 10% value-added work. The challenge for businesses today is to find new ways to dramatically reduce costs and improve investment returns while better serving their customers. To meet these challenges organizations have turned to Lean Thinking which seeks the elimination of all forms of waste strives for continuous improvement and simplifies business processes. This course explores how businesses that implement Lean Thinking learn how to reduce waste streamline production and improve operational flexibility. Practical steps and tools for the identification treatment and removal of waste are explored while focusing on increasing organizational effectiveness. ...
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Facilitating Difficult Situations
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How do you deal with the group that has an exceptionally dominant person who doesnt let anyone else have say or trivializes the contributions of others? How do you keep a faction from taking over? What is the best means of handling direct challenges to you or the group? What do you do when you know someone is deliberately trying to derail your meeting and/or success? What is the best way to clear the air when there is tension? Welcome to the tough stuff in facilitation. In this course you will learn to recognize and deal with the most difficult aspects of facilitating groups. You will explore typical trouble spots like dealing with side conversations. Discover ways to maintain and channel enthusiasm with high-participation groups and turn around low-participation situations. Learn techniques to help you handle sabotage and passive/aggressive behavior. Capitalize on confrontation by shifting your analysis from whats wrong to assessing what is really going on. You will also learn the benefits of conflict and apply tips to transform chaos into creativity. ...
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IT Project Management Essentials: Monitoring and Controlling IT Projects
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The aim of project monitoring and control is to compare actual progress and performance against the project plan. An IT project manager must analyze any variances from the plan and identify what actions may need to be taken. If project managers don't monitor their projects on a regular basis, they won't know which tasks are behind schedule or over budget, or what the issues or risks are. IT projects can be complex, with many variables, and it's important that project managers know, at all times, how the project is progressing and what is causing any slippages. This course describes how to monitor the progress of an IT project, analyze variances from the project plan, and control changes that may be requested during a project's life cycle.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: Monitoring and Controlling IT Projects calculate variances for a given IT project scenario recognize how to analyze variances in an IT project sequence the activities in the change control process for an IT project Duration: 1 ...
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The Role of Ethics in Project Management
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Do the right thing but make sure you do it on time, under budget, and within scope, all the while maintaining your professional integrity in a constantly evolving global business environment. How do project managers do it, given that most ethical dilemmas are not black and white and usually require diligent deliberation? Keeping with their vision of establishing project management as a professional industry, the project management community and the Project Management Institute (PMI®) have established standards of ethics to help members to navigate the sometimes murky waters of ethical issues. In this course, learners will be given an overview of the role of ethics in project management. Specifically, learners will be introduced to the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. These are standards that are supported by values identified by practitioners around the world as essential to ensure the integrity of the project management profession. In addition, the course covers the consequences of unethical choices and behavior, including their far-reaching impact on the project management community, the global business community, and society. It provides a foundational knowledge base reflecting the most up-to-date project management information so learners can effectively put principles to work at their own organizations. This course will assist in preparing the learner for the PMBOK® certification exam. This course is aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Fourth Edition, published by PMI®, Inc., 2008. Copyright and all rights reserved. Material from this publication has been reproduced with the permission of PMI®.Audience: Existing project managers wishing to get certified in recognition of their skills and experience, or others who wish to train to become accredited project managers.Objectives: The Role of Ethics in Project Management recognize key concepts related to business ethics identify examples of ethical dilemmas in project management recognize the benefits of managing ethics in your project identify the aims of the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct recognize key issues in the development of a code of ethics for project management identify standards related to each of the four values described in the PMI® Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct match examples to the types of inappropriate behavior they represent identify the true statements about the PMI process to review ethics complaints identify the aims of the PMI ethics complaints review process Duration: 1.5 ...
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An Introduction to Project Management (PMBOK-Third Edition aligned)
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Imagine trying to control the unexpected and unpredictable through processes in such a way that you meet the cost, quality, and time expectations of all invested parties in order to accomplish a temporary endeavor. This is the mission of project management. Challenging? Yes. Impossible? No. All industries employ project managers to implement processes as a way to control business. In fact, the field of project management is rapidly expanding, as more companies become project-based organizations. However, not all organizations and industries manage projects well. Some continue to waste time, money, and resources even after establishing procedures and protocols. A 1995 Standish Group survey showed that only 16 percent of software development projects finished on time and under budget, 31 percent were canceled, and the remaining 53 percent overran by an average of 189 percent on cost and 222 percent on schedule. This predicament is a source of frustration for many organizations. It's not impossible to fulfill the mission of project management. Some companies are even good at it. With standards and best practices to follow and the know-how to incorporate these, organizations can offer "world class" project management. In this course, learners will be given an overview of the project management discipline. They'll be introduced to best practices outlined in the 2004 revised Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). Specifically, learners will be introduced to the characteristics of a project, learn to distinguish between projects and operations, and define progressive elaboration. They'll identify key project management concepts and terms, be introduced to the PMBOK® Knowledge Areas, and be given information about the variables that can influence project outcomes. This course provides a foundational knowledge base reflecting the most up-to-date project management information so learners can effectively put principles to work at their own organizations. This course will assist in preparing the learner for the PMBOK® certification exam. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) - Third Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Inc., 2004. Copyright and all rights reserved. Material from this publication has been reproduced with the permission of PMI®.Audience: Project managers, managers, and CEOsObjectives: Defining Project Management identify the benefits of using the PMBOK® Guide as a source of project management best practices. identify the characteristics of a project. differentiate between examples of projects and operational work. differentiate between examples of progressive elaboration and scope creep. select the best definition of project management. identify true statements about the relationship among the five areas of expertise. match each area of expertise with a description of the type of project information it represents. match the Knowledge Areas to appropriate descriptions. differentiate among examples of programs, portfolios, and subprojects.Understanding Project Influencers identify the importance of recognizing how the project environment and influencers affect projects. identify some of the factors that make up an organization's culture. match examples of organizations with the system they represent. differentiate among examples of a functional, matrix, and a projectized organization. identify the advantages and disadvantages of a functional and a projectized organizational structure. identify the categories of environmental issues that affect a project. identify examples of specific environmental issues that could influence the project. Duration: 2.5 ...
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IT Project Management Essentials: Testing Deliverables and Closing IT Projects
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Because it's a significant point in an IT project, the closing phase has its own set of processes and activities. When a project manager carries out those activities and processes, he or she can demonstrate that the project goal has been met and provide the team with a sense of accomplishment. In addition, carrying out the final tasks of a project, particularly the task of archiving documentation, ensures that lessons learned are gathered and stored for the future. An orderly conclusion also helps guarantee that end users' needs and expectations have been met and that stakeholders are satisfied. This course describes the closing activities for IT projects, covering how to test IT project deliverables to make sure they meet requirements, which activities help close an IT project effectively, and how to set up maintenance and support.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: Testing Deliverables and Closing IT Projects match steps in testing IT project deliverables with their activities recognize examples of activities you carry out during the closing phase of an IT project identify the value of carrying out closing activities for an IT project recognize tasks in setting up maintenance and support for completed IT projects Duration: 1 ...
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IT Project Management Essentials: Managing Risks in an IT Project
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IT project managers deal with risks every day, including potential cost overruns, schedule delays, design constraints, hardware defects, and software bugs. Without a plan or process in place to address the possibility of unpredictable and unwanted loss during a project, managers may be dealing with risks reactively, rather than proactively. Potential trouble areas need to be identified early and dealt with quickly and appropriately so a project doesn't go over budget, miss deadlines, or negatively affect an organization's reputation. IT project managers can plan effectively for handling the possibility of negative outcomes by following a risk management process. Such a process can help them monitor and control risks throughout a project's life cycle. This course describes the steps in a risk management process for IT projects – from identifying the risks and documenting them, to analyzing and developing appropriate and effective responses.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: Managing Risks in an IT Project match common sources of risks in an IT project to their examples match tools for identifying risks in an IT project to their descriptions identify effective risk statements for a given IT project recognize how to analyze risks in an IT project match risk response strategies for an IT project to examples that illustrate them Duration: 1 ...
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Executing Projects with Project Server 2007
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Successfully executing a project is like mastering an art form of making things happen as planned. Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 can help project managers do that. This course explains how the execution of the project plan through efficient resource management communicating project information to stakeholders and quality assurance can be achieved. The course also explores time and timesheets and the concept of administrative time using Office Project Server 2007. ...
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