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Audience	Overview	Outline	Speaker Biography

IT Project Management Masterclass

3 Day Seminar

Speaker:

George Brooke

'The topics are well covered by the materials. The issues are made very clear, enriched by the instructor's long industrial experience. The atmosphere is enjoyable with excellent participation. I recommend it to my friends and colleagues.'
Jianping Fan, Deutsche Bank

"An excellent course which greatly exceeded my expectations. Strongly recommended"
John Hughes, Technical Account Manager, BT

The successful management of an IT project is a challenging task. IT is moving at an ever faster rate, and the Project Management techniques that accompany it appear to be doing the same. Where we were once Sequential we are now Staged, where we were once RAD we are now Agile. This seminar delivers a clear focus on the practicalities of Project Management in a modern IT world, showing how to cut through the noise to use the core quality methods which lead to successful projects. The seminar relates IT to management techniques, and in particular to the development of a smooth path from project inception to delivery and roll-out.
The seminar will help you:

Understand the relationships between lifecycles and project management
Know which techniques can deliver both quality and timely delivery of product
Select the best features from the core management techniques available
Get your staff to buy in to the approach
Understand how Design Techniques can be selected to improve process quality
Improve the quality of development processes
See how "testability" as a requirement leads to more professional product
Understand and manage Risk in your project
Improve your estimation techniques
Clarify, refine and deliver quality Requirements
Improve the quality of testing without increasing expenditure
Handle delivery, installation and cut over effectively and professionally
And, ultimately, ensure that you have a delighted client

We have designed this seminar for IT Project Managers and for those about to become Project Managers in an IT environment. Senior Technical Staff are also likely to benefit from attending. The seminar includes both management techniques and complementary information technology which combine to produce a more successful overall set of management tools. Attendees should have an overview of at least one method of developing software in a team environment.

This seminar will enable you to select the best Project Management techniques for your IT project and enable you to focus on the key drivers that deliver a successful project, on time, within budget and to a delighted end-user.

In addition to extensive printed notes, you will receive a CD of reference material on techniques, discussions on alternative solutions and demonstration tools aimed at solving Project Management issues.

Introduction to Project Management

Project Initiation
The Business Case
Sponsor Management
Customer Management
Project Manager Toolkit
Planning Prerequisites
Getting to WOW!
The PID

Software Development Lifecycles

RAD
DSDM
Spiral
Waterfall
V-Model
Staged
RUP
Agile Processes
Extreme Programming
The CMM

Implementation Strategies

Low-risk Development
Quality Processes
Quality Planning
Nail Driving
Inspections
Reviews
Four-Eyes
XP
Validation & Verification
Configuration Control
Check pointing
Testing and Test Strategies
Test Design and Automation

Teams and Team Organization

Staffing
Resource Planning
Roles
Communication
Team Approach to Decision Making
Leadership

Requirements Management

Good Requirements and how to get them
Functional Requirements
Non-functional Requirements
Assumptions
JAD, Use Cases Prototypes, Story Boards
Prioritisation, MoSCoW Rules
Bunching
Managing Changing Requirements- Tools and Techniques
Designing Acceptance Tests

Off-the-Shelf Packages

Evaluating the Options
Getting Buy-in
Managing Updates
Integration effort

Design Techniques

OO Design
UML, Use Cases and Class Diagrams
Reuse and reusability
Design Tools, Rose, TogetherSoft, Visio

Dealing with Risk

Risk Analysis
Risk Exposure
Planning for Risk
Dealing with Risk

Product Delivery and Acceptance

Planning for Delivery
Deployment Teams
Cut-over Techniques and Planning
Data Takeover
Graceful Back-out
Post Project Review
Acceptance Testing Criteria

Estimating the Task

Estimation techniques
Analogue
Delphi
KLOCs
Function Points
CoComo
Construx
“Been There- Done That”
OO Estimation

Starting to Plan

Introduction to Project 2000
Establishing a Project
Lifecycle Mapping
Resource Allocation and Scheduling
WBS, Gantt and Pert Charts
Task Planning
Reports and Reporting
Costing

Project Tracking

Base-lining Your Project
Progress Monitoring
Management Techniques
Critical Path Monitoring
Time Management
Monitoring Techniques
Micro Milestones
Time Boxing
Daily Build and Smoke
When to Re-plan
Review and Rescheduling
Customer negotiations
Recovery techniques

Key Topics Review

Elements of Planning and Control
Requirements vs. Acceptance Tests
Successful Delivery
Follow-on Business

George Brooke

George Brooke brings a wealth of technical and managerial experience to his subject of IT Project Management. He frequently receives the highest awards for both content and presentation of his materials.
He provides training and consultancy to organisations on topics ranging from Project Management, Strategic Testing and Requirements Management, to XML, Distributed Systems, SAP, Oracle and Java technology.

George's background includes 10 years as a systems designer and 10 years running his own software company in Germany. Returning to the UK as General Manager for Siemens, he established a new R&D organisation where he was responsible for setting up and managing some 20 projects. Later as part of Siemens Nixdorf, he took over the management of Application Software development for clients such as Tesco, British Gas, PowerGen, Esso and other well-known names. He continues to monitor new technologies and management techniques and more recently has been responsible for the design and delivery of major graduate training programs in the banking industry. He is a member of BCS and IEEE and lives in Cambridge with his wife and nine computers.