Project Management for Software Development
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Effectively manage your software development project management efforts by selecting the correct development life cycle, creating realistic plans, and managing a team through each project phase. In this training course, you use a realistic case study to develop ideas, practise key concepts, conduct a kick-off meeting, define successful software projects, analyse projects from a team perspective, and make estimations.
You Will Learn How To
- Deliver successful software projects that support your organisation's strategic goals
- Adjust your management style to reflect the chosen software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Construct a work breakdown structure that addresses real-world management challenges
- Create a network diagram showing task dependencies
Course Outline
- Conducting a Project Kick-Off Meeting
The business reasons for the project
- Where the project fits in the business
- How this fit influences your chances of success
The project customers
- Identifying stakeholders and their needs
- Developing strategies to manage involvement
The project objectives
- What success looks like
- Making the team's success visible
- Managing the project to build customer confidence
- Balancing Development Needs with Organisational Expectations
Selecting software development life cycle models
- Comparing SDLC models
- How to identify the right model
- Analysing strengths and weaknesses of Traditional vs. Iterative vs. Agile (e.g., XP, Scrum)
Designing a road map for your project
- Mapping your PM process to your project's SDLC
- Optimising time, cost, function and quality
- Translating Stakeholder Needs into Actions
Structuring content for your software project plan
- Providing initial top-down estimates
- Identifying tasks and phases using a WBS
- Calculating realistic bottom-up estimates
- Sequencing tasks into a network diagram
- Constructing Gantt charts to assess resource needs
Getting the right resources
- Identifying resource needs using your plan
- Delegating work effectively
Reality check for your project plan
- Testing the plan before you begin
- Assessing the project using risk management
- Involving the team in planning
- Building confidence for your plan
- Selling the plan to relevant stakeholders
- Running the Project: Day-to-Day Decisions for Success
Focusing on the project management process
- Putting theory into practice
- Early warning signs
- Building team commitment
- Day-to-day tracking and management
- Measuring progress with milestones
- Defect detection and prevention
Characterising the software development process
- Analysing how the SDLC drives deliverables
- Pressures to expect at each stage
- The major stages and how they relate
- Determining the working practices in traditional, iterative and Agile developments that offer the greatest impact
Building successful teams
- Getting technical teams to work collaboratively
- Engaging the team in the planning process
- Empowering team members
- Managing the stages of team development appropriately
- Driving the Implementation: Recognising and Overcoming Challenges
Tracking and control
- Measuring software progress
- Linking progress to success
Implementing change control
- Principles of change control
- The value of configuration management
Controlling risk
- Analysing project risk
- Changing the risk profile
- Planning for contingency
- Closing the Project: Learning from Experience
- Sharpening your project management skills
- Influencing the continuous improvement process of your organisation
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Tuition Fee — Standard: £2095
13 - 16 Nov
(4 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM GMT
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19 - 22 Mar
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9 - 12 Oct
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2:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST
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8 - 11 Jan
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26 - 29 Mar
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Tuition Fee
Course Tuition Fee Includes:
Training Hours
Standard class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest:
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
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Earn 23 PDUs
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and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 23 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 18 PDUs
Leadership : 2 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 3 PDUs