This IT project management training shows you how to plan a project from brief to closure, steer risks and resources and communicate clearly with stakeholders. It is aimed at emerging project managers, team leads and specialists taking charge of an IT initiative for the first time. You create a project brief, work breakdown structure and risk register, choose between classic and agile approaches and practise status reports and conversations about delays.
What you’ll take away.
- Write a project brief with goal, scope, out-of-scope items and success criteria
- Create a work breakdown structure and derive schedule and effort from it
- Assess risks, track them in a risk register and plan responses
- Analyse stakeholders and define communication and reporting
- Select a classic, agile or hybrid approach for an initiative with reasons
Your training in detail
- Who is it for?
- Emerging project managers, team leads, IT specialists and business staff who are responsible for IT initiatives.
- Prerequisites
- Having worked in at least one project helps. No formal prerequisites.
- Format & planning
- Suggested format: 3 days live online or on site. Scope depends on prior knowledge.
Agenda: from understanding to application
Our independently developed agenda proposal. Focus areas, lab environment and scope are agreed before booking.
Project start: project brief, SMART goals, scope boundaries, stakeholder analysis and project charter.
Structuring: work breakdown structure, work packages, milestones and dependencies in a network diagram.
Time and effort: estimation methods, Gantt chart, critical path and buffers.
Resources and budget: roles, capacity planning, cost plan and handling change requests through a change process.
Risks: identification, scoring by likelihood and impact, risk register and responses.
Control and communication: status report, traffic-light system, steering committee, agile elements such as Kanban and Scrum, and project closure.
Suggested exercise: for a fictional rollout of a ticketing system, create a project brief, work breakdown structure, risk register and a first status report and present it to a role-played steering committee.
Exams, licences & credentials
Related external qualifications include PMP from the Project Management Institute or PRINCE2 Foundation. The training is not a focused exam preparation unless agreed. Fees and licences are only included if confirmed in the offer. Attending alone awards no certification.
Vendor references & review date
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Your learning content
These objectives describe the training topic. The specific syllabus, duration, dates, trainer and price are agreed before booking.
Frequently asked questions
Classic or agile project management: which fits?
Classic fits when scope, date and budget are fixed early, for example in infrastructure migrations. Agile fits unclear requirements and frequent feedback. Many IT initiatives mix both. The training gives you criteria to justify the choice for your project.
How do I deal with risks in IT projects?
Gather risks early, score them by likelihood and impact, name an owner and define responses. Review the register regularly, not just at the start. We practise this on a sample project, including how to report it to the steering committee.
Do I need project management software?
Not for learning. Structure, planning and communication work at first with spreadsheets and boards. Tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps or Microsoft Project help with larger initiatives. We show the concepts tool-independently and can use a tool from your team as an example.
Does IT project management include a certificate?
Related external qualifications include PMP from the Project Management Institute or PRINCE2 Foundation. The training is not a focused exam preparation unless agreed. Fees and licences are only included if confirmed in the offer. Attending alone awards no certification.