Systems Integration Project Management Course information Duration: 3 days PDUs: 22.5 Course Fee: £1395 excl. VAT €1995 excl. VAT Related links     Ask a question about this course     Download description   Register for a course 15-17 Apr 08 4-6 Aug 08

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Learn how to:

• Plan, estimate, and organise system integration efforts
• 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 system integration

Course Synopsis

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 work 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, enterprise solution implementation, embedded system creation, and multi-site deployment.

Now you can identify the complex technical, and business involved in integrating custom software, hardware solutions, telecommunications networks, off-the-shelf software, business procedures and services, and support facilities.

Through a series of linked, group-based, interactive exercises, you will learn what it takes to be the project manager on a typical integration project and develop an understanding and appreciation of the problems that can occur and ways to solve them. You will also learn organisational options and techniques to support systems integration projects and gain an understanding of the critical relationship—and differences—between systems integrators and project managers.

Course Topics

1. What is Systems Integration (SI)?
   1. Systems Integration and SI projects
   2. Typical SI projects
   3. Importance of SI project management
2. Process Evaluation
   1. Managing the complexity of SI projects
   2. Decomposition and delegation as key paradigms in SI
   3. Value of formal methods, processes and skills for managing SI projects
3. SI Project Organisation
   1. Creating effective SI WBS
   2. Developing effective SI project teams
   3. Organising for SI projects
4. Controlling SI Projects
   1. Estimating for SI projects
   2. Define SI metrics for project performance measurement
   3. Process mapping
   4. Interaction complexity in SI projects
5. Integration Risk Management
   1. SI risk management
   2. Tools for managing SI complexity
   3. Configuration and integration management
6. SI Execution Management
   1. SI project execution
   2. Requirements analysis
   3. Procurement considerations
   4. Execution change analysis
7. Integration and Testing Management
   1. Testing concerns for SI
   2. Managing testing issues
   3. Creating test plans
8. SI Deployment Management
   1. Key system deployment issues in SI projects
   2. Single and multi-site deployment
   3. Options for predictable crises
9. SI Project Closeout
   1. SI closeout issues
   2. The SI project closeout plan

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