"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

- 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: Initiation Phase of IT Project.

Learning Goals - Initiation Phase of IT Project

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

Online Course Contents - Initiation Phase of IT Project

1. Overview of Getting IT Project Started
   
   • Purpose and Goals of the Initiation Phase
     
   • Typical Problems in the Initiation Phase
     
   • How to F*** Up the Initiation Phase
2. Clarifying of IT Project Business Goals
   
   • Strategy enablement (new business model or structure)
     
   • Business support (quality improvement)
     
   • Operations efficiency (cost-saving)
3. Describing To-Be Target State
   
   • End user organization
     
   • Business processes
     
   • Technical landscape and IT operations
     
4. Drafting Preliminary IT Project Plans
   • Process, system and capability level scope
     
   • Top-down estimated budget frame
     
   • Structure, roadmap and baseline time-box
5. Applying Leadership Skills in Initiation Phase of IT Project
   
   • Summary: Ten Key Points and One Take Home Message
     
   • Case study: Practical IT Project’s Initiation 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.
  

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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 Initiation Concepts

• Business concepts:
  • Organization (Wikipedia)
  • Stakeholder (Wikipedia)
  • Business process (Wikipedia)
  • Business case (Wikipedia)
  • Budget (Wikipedia)
  • Benefits realization (Wikipedia)
• Business analysis:
  • Business analysis (Wikipedia)
  • Gap analysis (Wikipedia)
  • Scope statement (Wikipedia)
  • Estimation (Wikipedia)
  • Total cost of ownership, TCO (Wikipedia)
  • Systems architecture (Wikipedia)
  • Process architecture (Wikipedia)
  • Technology roadmap (Wikipedia)

• Project concepts:
  • Project initiation (Wikipedia)
  • Project charter (Wikipedia)
  • Project plan (Wikipedia)
  • Project stakeholder (Wikipedia)
  • Deliverable (Wikipedia)
  • Work breakdown structure (Wikipedia)
  • Milestone (Wikipedia)
  • Timeboxing (Wikipedia)

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