CompTIA IT Project+ (Project Management Fundamentals)
This course delves into the unique challenges of managing IT projects, and offers a roadmap to success. It was specifically designed to address the skills inventory and performance outcomes that are needed to successfully manage IT projects.
- Lesson 1: Project Initiation: Discovery and Analysis
- Creating a Project Concept Definition
- Defining Business and Functional Requirements
- Define Technical Requirements
- Strategic and Operational Relevance
- Assessing Project Feasibility
- Perform Risk Assessment
- Lesson 2: Project Initiation: Estimating
- Construct a Formal Estimate
- Create Time Estimates
- Create Cost Estimates
- Lesson 3: Project Initiation: Framing the Project
- Managing Change
- Writing the Scope Statement
- Writing the Project Charter
- Writing a Statement of Work (SOW)
- Lesson 4: Project Planning: Laying the Foundation
- Setting Expectations for the Planning Process
- Decomposing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Creating a Network Diagram
- Identify and Analyze the Critical Path
- Creating Project Schedules
- Creating Project Budgets
- Lesson 5: Project Planning: Developing the Plan
- Develop Resource Management Plan
- Develop a Risk Management Plan
- Develop a Quality Management Plan
- Develop an Operational Transfer Plan
- Develop a Communication Plan
- Compile a Comprehensive Project Plan
- Lesson 6: Project Planning: Building the Team
- Assemble the Project Team
- Building and Supporting the Team
- Developing the Team
- Lesson 7: Project Execution: Monitoring and Managing
- Monitor the Project Iterativity
- Calculate Earned Value
- Execute Schedule Updates
- Execute Budget Updates
- Managing the Critical Path
- Managing the Project Team
- Managing Project Quality
- Managing Vendors
- Lesson 8: Project Control: Managing Chaos
- Interpreting Control Techniques
- Mitigating Scope Creep
- Managing Variances
- Lesson 9: Project Closure: Tying Up Loose Ends
- Managing Documentation
- Managing the Operational Transfer Plan
- Write Project Closure Report
- Obtain Final, Formal Sign-off
- Document Lessons Learned
- Managing Administrative Closure
