ISEB Foundation in IS Project Management

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Days

Suitable for: Our Project Management Foundation Course covers the syllabus of the Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management offered by the Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB), the vocational qualification arm of BCS. The examination is a one-hour closed-book test with 40 multiple-choice questions; participants must achieve 26 correct answers (65%) for a pass. This certificate is a specialist module for the ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis.

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London
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6 Long Lane, Barbican, EC1A 9HF

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Management

Course programme

  • Project environment
    • Characteristics of a project
    • The 'triple constraint' of time/cost/quality and the importance of safety
    • Project and operational responsibilities
    • Special features of computer projects
    • Role of the Project Manager
    • Project success and failure
    • Development lifecycles
  • Project initiation
    • Stakeholder analysis and management
    • Defining the objectives and scope of the project
    • The role of the Client and their responsibilities
    • Project constraints and resources
    • Project Initiation Document
  • Project planning
    • The importance of breaking work down
    • Product breakdown structures
    • Project and User deliverables
    • Standard deliverable sets and templates
    • Product flows and work packages
    • The concept of dependencies
  • Estimating deliverables
    • Key concepts in estimating
    • Estimating difficulties
    • Estimating by analogy
    • Parametric estimating
    • Effort and elapsed time estimates
    • Schedule compression
  • Planning networks and charts
    • Precedence diagrams and project networks
    • The critical path and its implications
    • Gantt charts and resource histograms
    • Planning at an appropriate level
    • The use and abuse of planning software
  • Working in teams
    • The elements of a good team
    • Team composition
    • Team roles
  • Motivation and management style
    • The roots of motivation at work
    • Approaches to motivation (Maslow, Herzberg)
    • The effect of management style
  • Project risk management
    • Purpose of risk management
    • Risk management process
    • Identifying and assessing risks
    • Introduction to quantitative risk assessment
  • Project quality plans
    • Principles of quality management
    • The contents of a quality plan
    • Quality Management
    • Configuration management
  • The project plan
    • Elements of a project plan (schedule, quality, risk)
    • Contents and structure of a project plan
  • Project monitoring, reporting and control
    • The importance of monitoring and control
    • Allocating personal deliverables
    • Progress measurement
    • Time recording
    • Introduction to earned value analysis
    • Dealing with non-delivery
    • Slippage and re-planning - corrective actions
    • Change control, scope creep and over-engineering
    • Reporting structures
  • Project completion
    • Project sign-off and the need for a controlled close
    • Post-project reviews
  • The project manager
    • The project manager's role revisited
    • Qualities and characteristics of effective project managers
  • Examination
    • Examination for the ISEB Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

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