Dr Ted's IT Project Leadership Training

Online Course: Implementation Phase of IT Project

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

- Confucius

Dr Ted's IT Project Leadership Training facilitates practical skill development of IT project managers and technical leads. Online courses provide relevant and intensive learning journeys for IT professionals working on complex IT solution implementation projects with business processes, multi-vendor environments and technical architectures. Course contents: Implementation Phase.

 

Learning Goals - Implementation Phase of IT Project

  1. Increase Understanding of the Relevant IT Project Leadership Skills in Implementation Phase
  2. Get Ready to Evaluate, Adopt and Apply Personally Relevant Skills for Implementation Phase
  3. Create a Personal Development Plan for Leadership Skills of Implementation Phase
  4. Perform Better in Daily IT Project Implementation Phase Situations

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Online Course Contents - Implementation Phase of IT Project

  1. Overview of IT Project Implementation Phase
    • Purpose and Goals of the Implementation Phase
    • Typical Problems in the Implementation Phase
    • How to F*** Up the Implementation Phase
  2. Ready, On Your Mark, Get Set… Wait!
    • Environment and tools ready
    • Business requirement clarity (DoD)
    • Technical implementation details (DoR)
  3. Keeping Implementation Lean and Mean
    • Prioritization (Release, Sprint, week, day, hour)
    • Minimizing end-to-end task completion
    • Unblocking dependencies outside the team
  4. Invaluable Quality Assurance
    • Sanity checking and smoke testing
    • Automated testing and unit testing
    • First-time-right vs DoD
  5. Applying Leadership Skills in Implementation Phase of IT Project
    • Summary: Ten Key Points and One Take Home Message
    • Case study: Practical IT Project's Implementation Phase Puzzle
    • Personal Skill Development Plan: Example of Dr Ted’s Current Skill Development Plan

Before Enrolling to Dr Ted's Online Courses

  • Evaluate which of Dr Ted's online courses would be most useful for you. Check out the contents of Dr Ted's online courses with 10 IT Project Phases and 10 IT Project Leadership Skills. Familiarize yourself with the possibilities of Dr Ted's learning journeys and what to expect from the learning experience. Read through the FAQ section.
  • Make sure that you have sufficient pre-requisite knowledge level. Review the course-specific IT pre-requisites, general IT pre-requisites and general leadership skill pre-requisites to evaluate your current level. Depending on your current level, use the provided pre-study resources as a starting point as much as needed before enrolling to the course to maximize your learning opportunity. At minimum a conceptual level understanding of the listed topics is assumed (the pre-requisites will NOT be explained during the course).
  • Be ready for an intensive online course. Your learning experience can be at its best only as good as you make of it. Arrange a time slot and environment where you can focus. During your 'study time' pay uninterrupted attention to the course content. Pick up ideas relevant to you and be ready pause the presentation at times to slowly digest or reflect on the topics. After the course your learning journey continues with applying the learnt skills in practice.

"A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.”

- Christopher Pike

 

Pre-Requisites and Pre-Study Resources

NOTE: The resources provided below are not the most extensive sources of background knowledge. The purpose of these lists is to give an idea of the expected knowledge level and a starting point for effective and relevant pre-study to maximize your learning opportunity from Dr Ted’s training.

General Pre-requisites:

  • IT Topics and Terminology (see detailed list)

  • Leadership Skills (see detailed list)

Course-specific Pre-requisites: IT Project Implementation Concepts

  • Basics of development methodologies:
    • Lean IT (Wikipedia)
    • Software development process (Wikipedia)
    • Agile software development (Wikipedia)
    • Lean software development (Wikipedia)
    • SCRUM (Wikipedia)
    • Kanban (Wikipedia)
    • DevOps (Wikipedia)
    • Test-driven development (Wikipedia)
  • Development terminology:
    • Software development (Wikipedia)
    • Architectural requirement (Wikipedia)
    • Environment (Wikipedia)
    • Development data (Wikipedia)
    • Definition of Ready (Wikipedia)
    • Definition of Done (Wikipedia)
  • Technical quality assurance concepts:
    • Software quality (Wikipedia)
    • Software quality assurance (Wikipedia)
    • Unit testing (Wikipedia)
    • Smoke testing (Wikipedia)
    • Code review (Wikipedia)
    • Code audit (Wikipedia)
    • Pair programming (Wikipedia)
    • Sanity testing (Wikipedia)
    • Automatic code analysis (Wikipedia)
    • Integration testing (Wikipedia)

 

"The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat."

- Richard Marcinko

 

 

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