Dr Ted's IT Project Leadership Training

Online Course: Planning Phase of IT Project

"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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: Planning Phase of IT Project.

 

Learning Goals - Planning Phase of IT Project

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

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Online Course Contents - Planning Phase of IT Project

  1. Overview of IT Project Planning
    • Purpose and Goals of the Planning Phase
    • Typical Problems in the Planning Phase
    • How to F*** Up the Planning Phase
  2. IT Project Baseline Plan
    • Balancing Scope, Budget and Schedule
    • Planning for Quality
    • Often Forgotten Domains of Project Planning
  3. Organization and Resourcing of IT Project
    • Core Project Team
    • Steering Committee
    • Extended Stakeholders
  4. Planning for Uncertainty
    • Dependencies
    • Assumptions
    • Risks
  5. Applying Leadership Skills in Planning Phase of IT Project
    • Summary: Ten Key Points and One Take Home Message
    • Case study: Practical IT Project's Planning 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 Planning Concepts

  • Basics about project planning
    • Project planning (Wikipedia)
    • Project plan (Wikipedia)
    • Scope statement (Wikipedia)
    • Cost estimate (Wikipedia)
    • Schedule (Wikipedia)
  • Detailed project planning:
    • Deliverable (Wikipedia)
    • Work breakdown structure (Wikipedia)
    • Milestone (Wikipedia)
    • Project stakeholder (Wikipedia)
    • Project team (Wikipedia)
    • Project steering committee (Wikipedia)
    • IT project vendor (Wikipedia)
    • RACI matrix (Wikipedia)
  • Risk management concepts:
    • Risk management (Wikipedia)
    • Project risk management (Wikipedia)
    • IT risk management (Wikipedia)
    • Quality assurance (Wikipedia)
    • Dependency (Wikipedia)
    • Assumption (Wikipedia)
    • Anti-fragility (Wikipedia)

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

- Richard Marcinko

 

 

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