BCS Foundation in IS Project Management Course with Online Exam (ASS_MPMF)

During this course, you will cover:

Project environment

• • Characteristics of a project; the ‘triple constraint’ of time/cost/quality
• • 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