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15935: Project Management for IT

Monday, August 4, 2014: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Room 311 (David L. Lawrence Convention Center)
Speaker: William C. Cross, PhD(St Petersburg College)
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  • Project Management for IT (1.3 MB)
  • Project management is fraught with peril.  It's never easy but it can be fun.  IT projects are perfect targets for project management techniques.

    Learn why projects go wrong, and how to prevent these problems.  Learn to control a project, and hit your delivery and cost targets.  This dynamic session focuses specifically on IT projects.  We'll discuss project team composition, progress reporting, demands on the project manager, and the nature of the manager's interaction with the team and the parent organization.  You’ll get proven tips and techniques that help manage projects.

    Takeaways:

    • Learn to control a project, and hit your delivery and cost targets

    • Learn why projects go wrong

    • Understand how to recognize and prevent project problems.

    • Straightforward project scheduling.

    • The secret of successful progress measurement

    • Understand the unique problems inherent in large projects, and how to keep them from derailing your career.

    Tracks: Software Architecture and User Experience
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