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You Will Learn How To
- Select the most appropriate business and technical approach to a systems integration (SI) project
- Create a governance and control structure to manage and monitor progress and overall project status
- Develop a realistic and achievable plan to reflect the needs of project stakeholders
- Incorporate strategies and controls to comply with organisational standards
- Generate an effective plan for SI deployment into the business environment
- Facilitate the evaluation of project success based on realised business benefits
Course Benefits As organisations strive to become more efficient, managers are often called on to lead complex projects that integrate multiple systems, architectures, infrastructures, and organisations, involving multiple cross-functional teams, commonly referred to as Systems Integration projects. In this course, you learn how to effectively manage the unique challenges of integrating these systems and leading the teams involved.
Who Should Attend Project managers, programme managers, business analysts and anyone participating in systems integration projects. Project management experience at the level of Course 296, " Project Management: Skills for Success", or Course 340, " Project Management for Software Development", is assumed.
RealityPlus™ Through an authentic case study simulation, you gain experience managing system integration projects. Activities include:
- Determining SI project characteristics and critical success factors
- Responding to project threats and opportunities
- Managing communication challenges
- Building an effective SI project team
- Performing impact analyses to address quality issues
- Designing a dashboard for management reporting
- Assigning deployment and transition responsibilities
- Closing the project successfully
Course Content The Business Perspective
Defining systems integration
- Reviewing the systems integration components
- Evaluating integration support issues
Selecting business areas for integration
- Interpreting the business strategy
- Establishing the expected benefits
Considering the IT Perspective
Aligning project selection with the IT strategy
- Assessing technology alternatives
- Ensuring business alignment
- Prioritising the project solutions
Mitigating threats and opportunities
- Developing responses for decision making
- Managing and reporting risks
- Preparing the business case for IT decision makers
Determining the Project Management Structure and Approach
Identifying critical success factors
- Acceptance criteria
- Communication plan
- Success levels
- Deliverables
Managing the approach to systems integration
- Classifying the integration as a project, program or portfolio
- Comparing the integration life cycle models
- Appointing the project team and assigning responsibilities
- Addressing the vendor management scenario
Adopting the Appropriate Strategies and Controls
Integrating existing methods, techniques and processes
- Documenting the business and data models
- Structuring the key project components
Planning the systems integration
- Dividing the SI project into architectural components
- Analyzing the identified interfaces
Aligning with operational governance
- Strategy
- Design
- Transition
- Operation
- Continual improvement
Conforming to Organisational Quality Standards
Establishing the test management strategy
- Communicating the test life cycle
- Agreeing the approach to testing
Selecting effective SI testing strategies
- Recognising and profiling the testing types
- Serviceability
- Reliability
- Recoverability
- Maintainability
- Resilience
- Security
Executing the Project
Making decisions and monitoring progress
- Empowering the project management team
- Reporting on overall project status
Overcoming systems integration issues
- Leveraging impact analyses in line with expected business benefits
- Distributing results following the adopted communication strategy
Managing Deployment and Transition
Confirming purpose, goals and objectives
- Planning the deployment and business transition
- Leveraging release management
Enabling service and component transition
- Assessing business readiness for change
- Applying service level agreements and contractual arrangements
Closing the Project and Benefit(s) Realisation
Obtaining acceptance and signoff
- Transferring ownership to the business
- Preparing the end project report and follow-on actions
Executing the benefit realisation plan
- Implementing the post-transition benefit timescale
- Reviewing the realised benefits
Monitoring performance for continual service improvement
- Producing the business scorecard
- Measuring project success from the stakeholder's viewpoint
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