Projects4Value - IT Project Management Workshop, Dubai

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Today’s IT and Communication projects present unique challenges to the project manager requiring coordination with many stakeholders and integration of various technological capabilities.

Industry research shows that only approximately 30% of IT projects achieve their time, cost and specification goals. This statistic demonstrates an obvious need for IT professionals to supplement their traditional IT technical skills with high-value business and project delivery skills. These required skills must cover three critical domains; general business knowledge, project management tools, techniques and processes, and interpersonal skills.

This comprehensive and highly interactive course provides you with proven techniques, tools and processes for conducting successful IT projects. The course content draws upon current research as well as the extensive experience of the facilitator's involvement in managing projects. You’ll discover critical success factors and hidden risks inherent in IT projects and you’ll leave with an understanding of strategies and techniques developed in the field by experienced IT project managers for successfully managing IT projects.

It addresses all areas of project management and focuses specifically on the processes and people involved. It addresses the role of the project sponsor, project manager and the project team at each phase of the project life cycle, helping you gain the foundation, basic experience, techniques and tools to manage each stage of your project. The course shows how to manage IT projects rather than how to automate their administration using a specific methodology.

You’ll learn techniques to determine customer requirements, how to set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs, get the most from your project management team, and utilize project management tools, techniques and processes to get work done on time and within budget. The course covers the fundamental steps in any project lifecycle and addresses the necessary interpersonal and communication skills such as effective negotiation, conflict resolution, leadership and team building.

By extending traditional project management concepts into the IT arena, you’ll gain an understanding of the approaches and methods necessary to manage IT projects of any size. You’ll take home powerful tools to enhance your IT project management capabilities, as well a comprehensive set of course notes and other materials which will not only summarize what you have learnt, but also provide opportunities for learning more after the course.

You will learn through hands-on exercises, simulations, interactive case studies, and relevant discussions with your peers and the experienced IT project management facilitator. This approach allows you to assimilate a broad array of practical experiences that can immediately be applied when you return to the workplace.

Although specifically designed for professionals involved in IT and Communication projects, professionals involved in business projects without an IT background will also find this course very beneficial. Modern project management focuses more on the people and process components rather than on technology and this course subscribes to that by keeping discussions of technical detail aspects and IT jargon to a minimum.

The course is about how to deliver results and not about IT systems analysis, programming, telecommunications and other detailed technical aspects of systems development and implementation.

"Those involved in Business, IT and Communication Projects will greatly benefit from this course. In particular, the course is designed for managers who are tasked with delivery on Business focused IT and Communication projects. This course in different variants has been successfully presented internationally to a wide range of audiences from IT, engineering, and business environments. It is applicable to all levels of management including existing Project Managers, and technical and engineering personnel"

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