Course Description
Today’s information technology project manager faces
projects of increasing size, complexity and risk. Your job as project manager
is to make sure that all of the components come together and to see that the
project is completed on time and within budget.
Yet the definition of "all the components” keeps getting
broader and more complex. More and more IT projects depend on critical systems
integration (SI) issues, including client/server development, open systems
design, enterprise solution implementation, legacy systems maintenance and
multi-site deployment.
Now you can identify and explore the complex technical and
business issues involved in integrating custom software, hardware solutions,
telecommunications networks, commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), business
procedures and services, and support facilities.
Through case studies and classroom discussions, you’ll
experience what it takes to be the project manager on a typical SI project.
You’ll develop an understanding and appreciation of the problems that can occur
and explore ways to solve them. And you’ll gain an understanding of the
critical need for a systems integration project manager on large IT projects in
the real world.
If you face a future assignment as a systems integration
project manager, this course will give you tools and techniques needed for
survival.
Identify and explore the complex technical and business
issues involved in integrating custom software, hardware solutions,
telecommunications networks, commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), business
procedures and services, and support facilities.
Develop an understanding and appreciation of the problems
that can occur and explore ways to solve them.
Course Objective
·
Plan,
estimate, and organize system integration efforts
·
Apply
the decomposition-integration paradigm to manage complexity
·
Manage
the implementation of complex system interfaces
·
Assess
and respond to the risks inherent in integration projects
·
Apply
the decomposition-integration paradigm to manage complexity
·
Focus
on the business emphasis of systems integration
Who Should attend?
Course Outline
What is Systems Integration (SI)?
·
Systems
Integration and SI projects
·
Typical
SI projects
·
Importance
of SI project management
Process Evaluation
·
Managing
the complexity of SI projects
·
Decomposition
and delegation as key paradigms in SI
·
Value
of formal methods, processes and skills for managing SI projects
SI Project Organization
·
Creating
effective SI WBS
·
Developing
effective SI project teams
·
Organizing
for SI projects
Controlling SI Projects
·
Estimating
for SI projects
·
Define
SI metrics for project performance measurement
·
Process
mapping
·
Interaction
complexity in SI projects
Integration Risk Management
·
SI
risk management
·
Tools
for managing SI complexity
·
Configuration
and integration management
SI Execution Management
·
SI
project execution
·
Requirements
analysis
·
Procurement
considerations
·
Execution
change analysis
Integration and Testing Management
·
Testing
concerns for SI
·
Managing
testing issues
·
Creating
test plans
SI Deployment Management
·
Key
system deployment issues in SI projects
·
Single
and multi-site deployment
·
Options
for predictable crises
SI Project Closeout
·
SI
closeout issues
·
The
SI project closeout plan