IT Project Monitoring and Controlling

Monitoring and controlling an IT project is an ongoing activity that spans the life of the project. You will cover the activities involved in monitoring and controlling project actuals to baseline variances, adequate progress and status reporting, project process improvement plan, and critical path methods. You will also formulate a performance analysis on an IT project and complete a product backlog grooming activity using sprint performance results.

Learning Objectives

• Design a project process improvement plan using quality control data
• Formulate a performance analysis on an IT project
• Complete a product backlog grooming activity using sprint performance results

Course Topics

IT Project Process Improvement Management

• Start-Up Exercise
• Project Process Improvement (PPI)
• IT PPI Implementation
• Adaptive Life Cycle PPI
• Knowledge Check
• Your Thoughts?
• Aligning QA/QC with PPI
• Knowledge Check
• PPI Frameworks
• Knowledge Check
• Scrum Sprint Retrospective
• Knowledge Check
• Achievement Exercise
• Application Checkpoint

IT Project Monitoring Tools, Techniques, and Processes

• Your Thoughts?
• Developing a Project Monitoring Program
• Analyze the Collected Performance Data
• Establishing Baselines and Performance Analysis Techniques
• Agile-Based EVM
• Adaptive IT Project Change Management
• Risk and Issue Monitoring on Adaptive Projects

IT Project Controlling Tools, Techniques, and Processes

• Controlling an Adaptive-Styled Project
• Change Control in Adaptive Projects
• Release-Level Management and Control in Adaptive Projects
• Release-Level Management for U.S. Government Projects
• Using “Execute to Experience” to Control Adaptive Projects
• Using the Interval Review and Demonstration
• Product Backlog Grooming