Project Management

The Project Management course explores traditional and Agile methods to improve business operations and gain competitive advantage, focusing on structure, risk and quality.

Course description

The Project Management course provides an in-depth understanding of the importance and role of projects, distinguishing between traditional and agile approaches.

Participants will gain knowledge about the structural aspects of projects, including fundamental principles, business justification, organizational structure, life cycle and processes. The course explores quality requirements and risk management, and provides an overview of some agile practices.

Main topics:

  • Projects and project management
  • Traditional project management and Agile project management
  • Fundamental principles
  • Business case
  • Project's organizational structure
  • Project management's life cycle and processes
  • Requirements and quality
  • Risk management
  • Some Agile practices

Who is the course for?

Job opportunities and roles that benefit from this course

Design

  • Ute hw electrical designer
  • Electrical designer ute sw
  • Mechanical designer

Sales

  • Product manager
  • Project manager

Design

  • Electrical hw designer
  • Electrical sw designer
  • Mechanical designer
  • Project manager

Staff

  • Controller
  • Project manager

Course goals

Basic Concepts

Understanding the importance and role of projects

Agile vs. Traditional

Understanding the difference between traditional approaches and agile approaches

Key elements

Understanding the key elements to monitor

Methodology

Gaining some introductory elements on working methods and techniques

This course includes

  • Examples of real business cases

  • Course completion certificate

  • Downloadable in-depth content

  • Help desk support

  • Access from mobile and tablet

  • Comprehensive monitoring of educational progress

  • Skills assessment test (mandatory)

  • Intermediate assessment tests (optional)

Course completion certificate

After completing the course it is possible to obtain a downloadable certificate to display as evidence of the skills achieved. The certification can be combined according to company needs.

Course's lecturer

Doriano Gallozzi

  • Manager and specialist in Project Management and IT Governance
  • Over 20 years of experience in IT projects
  • ITIL 4 Master PRINCE2 7th DSDM AgilePM Scrum Master
  • Design Thinking MoP PPM TOGAF Enterprise Architect CPRE
  • DevOps Data Science PM131

Course's contents

    Projects and Project Management
  1. PM and Agile specialization methodological references
  2. What is a project
  3. Project carachteristics
  4. What is Project Management?
  5. Six key performance aspects of a PM
  6. Stand-alone projects, programs, portfolios
  7. Projects in commercial environments

  1. The basic philosophy of the Agile approach
  2. What Agile means
  3. Traditional Project Management
  4. Agile Project Management
  5. Comparing two approaches
  6. Does Agile always work?

  1. The 7 fundamental principles
  2. Ongoing business rationale
  3. Learning from experience
  4. Defined roles and responsibilities
  5. Stage management
  6. Management by exception
  7. Products-focused
  8. Tailored adaptation to the project

  1. Business rationale
  2. Results and benefits
  3. Structure of the business case

  1. Project's organization
  2. Three main project focuses: business, user, supplier
  3. Project's organizational structure
  4. Agile project organizational structure

  1. processes introduction
  2. Traditional Project Management process model
  3. Project initiation: scope and process flow
  4. Project direction: scope and process flow management
  5. Project initiation: scope and process flow
  6. Stage check: purpose and process flow
  7. Product delivery management: purpose and process flow
  8. Product delivery management: Agile version
  9. Stage boundaries management: purpose and process flow
  10. Project Closure: Scope and Process Flow
  11. Agile project model: the framework and tailoring

  1. Quality
  2. Basic concepts and definitions
  3. Quality planning and control
  4. Plan the products to be created: the PBS
  5. Quality verification technique: roles
  6. Requirements of the Agile world: the user story
  7. Definition of ready (DoR) and done (DoD)

  1. Definition of risk in a project
  2. What is a risk
  3. Risk management
  4. Step 1: Identify the context and risks
  5. Step 2: Risk assessment
  6. Step 3: Plan select risk responses and budget for risks
  7. Step 4: Implement
  8. Step 5: Communicate

  1. Instrumental factors for success in an Agile project
  2. Workshop practices
  3. Modelling
  4. Timeboxing
  5. prioritization technique: MoSCoW
  6. Estimating: The Planning Poker
  7. daily stand up meeting
  8. review
  9. retrospective

Entry requirements

Access to any browser

PC / Tablet / Smartphone device

Internet connection

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