ITE 083: IT Project Management

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Lesson Title: Course Orientation – An Introduction to Materials:

Project Management
Learning Targets:
At the end of the module, you will be able to:
1. Determine course topics, requirements, grade
computation, and class rules for ITE 083.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the benefits of
project management in businesses and organizations
3. Define key terms associated with project management
1.
Student Activity Sheet Module
References:
 What is Project Management & What
are the Benefits? [2022] •. (n.d.)
 The Ultimate Glossary of Project
Management Terms. (2015,
November 2). ProjectManager.
https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/
glossary-of-project-management-
terms

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW

Introduction
Welcome to IT Project Management! This course is designed to develop your fundamental
understanding of project development stages and to teach you how to use project management tools.
You will be guided to discover how to align critical resources and apply appropriate team management
skills to succeed. The first module introduces you to the course topics, requirements, and fundamentals
of project management in IT.

B. MAIN LESSON
Content and Skill-Building

Course Outline
The topics that will be discussed are listed below, along with the session number in which they will be
covered. Your course syllabus includes a detailed outline of topics. Please keep in mind that the timeline
for topic delivery may change due to holidays or urgent events that cannot be avoided. Please work
with your adviser to make the necessary changes.

Session
Topics
No.
Orientation to the Course, Introduction to Project Management 1
System Development Environment 2
Initiating a Project 3, 4
Preliminary Analysis - System Requirements 5
First Period Quiz 6

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Preliminary Analysis- Data Modeling 7, 8

First Period Exam 9
Planning Phase- Process Modeling 10, 11,
12
Planning Phase- Timelines and Resources 13
Second Period Quiz 14
Design Phase- Interface Design 15, 16
Second Period Exam 17
Development Phase 18, 19,
20
Third Period Quiz 21
Development Phase 22, 23,
24
Final Coursework Preparation 25
Third Period Exam 26

Academic Requirements
The expected output requirements for various sessions per term are listed below. The majority of the
required output will be developed as a group to encourage collaboration and experience project
implementation.

Prelim 1. Submission of Team Roles

2. System Request Reports
3. Logical Design of the Proposed System
4. Project Overview Presentation
Midterm 1. Context and Data Flow diagrams
2. Documentation (Methodology, Project Management Tools)
3. Practical Exam, Skills Test
4. Design Elements
5. Initial Project Presentation
Final 1. Initial Working Modules of an Application
2. Bug Reports
3. User Manual
4. Oral Presentation of Developed Project

Grading System
To pass a course, a student must obtain a Final Grade of at least 50, which is equivalent to 3.00.
The Final Grade is computed as follows:
Final Grade (FG) = (P1 * 0.33) + (P2 * 0.33) + (P3 * 0.34)

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The periodic grades P1, P2 and P3 are computed as follows:

Px = (Exam * 0.5) + (Class Standing*0.5)

Projects being crucial requirements in the courses, a project is either a class standing component
or an alternative to an exam.

When the project is part of Class Standing:

Px=50% (Exam) + 50% (Class Standing) where Class Standing consists of:

40% (Quiz)
30% (Daily Activities)
20% (Assignments)
10% (Behavioural factors)

General Expectations and Rules

 Pass assessments and examinations.
 Creative and analytical thinking is required.
 Tardiness is unacceptable.
 Absences should be for reasonable cause and with due advisement.
 Participation in any activities is required.
 Proactively contribute to group efforts.
 Conduct and complete tasks or projects based on guidelines.
 Submit projects on time.

An Introduction to Project Management

As a continuing IT student, you will find that a lot of times you perform class activities in groups, aside
from when you're doing them all alone. You're probably wondering why, at some point, it's easier to
complete an individual task than a group project. You're finding it increasingly difficult to stay organized
and collaborate with teammates, which is why some students dislike collaborating on a project with
others. You might be wondering if you need project management: finding a way to effectively plan,
manage, and execute work. Team projects are unavoidable as you advance in your IT career, and they
are always the starting point.

Continue reading to learn about the benefits of project management in a broader sense—not just for
you as a student or your team members, but also for a larger organization and businesses.

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5 Benefits of Project Management

Improves Team Collaboration with Clear and Organized Plans

• List everything you need to do before getting started.
• Organize everything in a shareable plan.
• Turn repeatable projects into a template.

Eliminates Confusion by Defining Roles

• Clearly communicate your role (and everyone else’s)
• Check in with and answer questions for task owners.
• Regularly share status updates.

Improves Team Effectiveness with Well-defined Goals

• Assess why you’re launching this project
• Share your goals with all of your stakeholders
• Set up a process for monitoring and reporting on goals

Keeps Team Aligned and Focused by Defining a Communication Plan

• Establish communication conventions.
• Provide opportunities for feedback to be shared.Align on the frequency and style of
status updates.
• Align on the frequency and style of status updates.

Increase Efficiency through Project Management Tools

• Get everyone on board with one central tool.
• Set conventions on how to use it.
• Share out status updates and reports.

Key Terms in Project Management

Throughout our discussion of project management topics, you will come across terms and concepts
that will serve as our common language. Some key project management terms are listed below.

Project
- The PMBOK© states, “a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product,
service, or result.” In other words, a project is a sequence of tasks bounded by time, resources, and

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required results; has a defined outcome and deliverables; has a deadline; and has a budget-limiting
number of people, supplies, and capital.
Project Management
- The name for a discipline that involves the planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling of
resources to achieve a specific goal. It is based on a temporary course of action, usually creating a
product or service, and so is constrained by a deadline as well as a budget.

Project Plan
- A formal and approved document outlining a course of a project from start to finish.

Project Charter
- This is a statement of the scope, objectives, and
participants in a project, the document makes everyone
involved in the project aware of its purpose and goals.

Planning
- The process of creating and maintaining a plan. In
formal project management, this also refers to a phase
in the Project Management Lifecycle.

Project Manager
- The term to describe any professional in charge of
leading and managing a project.

Resources
- Who or what is required to fulfill a project? This can
refer to people or machines or a room rental, etc., that
typically bills on an hourly basis.

Risk
- On projects, risk refers to the precise probability of specific issues and how they may impact the
project.

Scope
- This refers to the total of all tasks, requirements, or features in a project. New requests or features or
tasks added after a project has been planned are commonly referred to as “out of scope.”

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Work Breakdown Structure

- This is a formal method for planning a project to identify larger components of a project and all the
subsequent tasks or deliverables implied.

Milestone
- This is a way to mark a specific point along the lifecycle of a project’s timeline to bookmark upcoming
major accomplishments, including the start, finish, external review, and budget checks.

Deliverable
- Something contracted for delivery. It is a tangible item or intangible objective, but crucial to the success
of the project. It can be a report, a document, some project building block, or the end product delivered
at the end of a project.

Agile
- A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects
iteratively with short bursts of work called “sprints”.

Skill-Building Activity

At this point in the module, you will be doing a learning contract (LC) for IT Project Management. A
learning contract is an agreement negotiated between the student and the teacher to change the
student's behavior and improve their opportunities to learn. After listening to your teacher’s discussion
on the benefits of a learning contract, you will begin constructing it by supplying the needed details
below.

What are you going to learn?
(Objectives)
Itemize what you want to be
able to do or know when
completed.
How are you going to learn The target date for
it? (Resources and completion
Strategies)
What do you have to do to When do you plan to complete
meet each of the objectives each task?
defined?

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How are you going to know
that you learned it?
(Evidence)
What is the specific task that
you are to complete to
demonstrate learning?
How are you going to prove
that you learned it?
(Verification)
Who will receive the product of
your learning and how will they
evaluate it?
Advising faculty member
feedback (Evaluation)
How well was the task
completed? Provide an
assessment decision.

I have reviewed and find acceptable the above learning contract.

Date: _________________________________
Student: _________________________________
Adviser: _________________________________

Check for Understanding

A. Identify project management benefits supported by the statements given below. Write the letter
only.

A. Improves Team Collaboration D. Keeps Team Aligned and Focused

B. Eliminates Confusion E. Increases Efficiency

C. Improves Team Effectiveness

1. By clearly stating that you are the project's point person, everyone else involved will know whom
to contact with questions and where to look for updates. _____
2. Email is the best way to communicate with file attachments and cloud drive links. You can also
use Viber or Messenger group chats for general communication. _____
3. Giving your teammates more visibility into project statuses and progress is the quickest way for
them to see value from a tool. _____

B. Identify the term being described by the following statements:

1. This is the total of all project tasks, requirements, or features.

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2. This refers to a short-term endeavor undertaken to produce a unique product, service, or result.
_________________________________________________

3. This is a statement of the scope, objectives, and participants in a project; the document informs
everyone involved in the project of its purpose and goals.
_________________________________________________

4. A discipline involving the planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling of resources to

achieve a specific goal.
_________________________________________________

5. It could be a report, a document, a project component, or the final product delivered at the end
of a project.
_________________________________________________

C. LESSON WRAP-UP

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is PMBOK?
PMBOK stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge and is a collection of guidelines,
terminology, and best practices that are accepted as standards for project management.
PMBOK is managed by the Project Management Institute. It contains many processes and
techniques from project management and, since the amount of knowledge is also always
growing, is constantly being expanded and updated.

2. What industries benefit most from project management?

Project management is versatile and can benefit all industries. It includes industries such as
marketing firms, education, construction, video game development, and information technology.
Project management processes can vary, and using modern tools to implement critical
processes is critical for workflow success.

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Thinking about Learning

Congratulations! You are done! Shade the number of the module that you have finished today.

In the following blanks, write your expectations from the subject and the teacher:
Topics that are interesting and you want to learn more…
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Teacher attitude or behavior in teaching the subject and towards students…

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Learning activities that you are very much interested to participate…

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Answer Key

Sample Answer in Skill-Building Activity

What are you going to learn?
(Objectives)
To gain a better understanding
of the different design elements
How are you going to learn it? The target date for
(Resources and Strategies) completion
Locate and read as many of the December 17
reference articles as available
Emphasis will be on the
information regarding attributes
of different design elements

How are you going to know How are you going to prove Advising faculty member
that you learned it? that you learned it? feedback (Evaluation)
(Evidence) (Verification)

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Make a list of attributes The attributes and classification Advising faculty member: The
belonging to each design lists will be verified by the learning contract is valid. The
element Adviser student has set challenging, yet
attainable goals and has clearly
Classify design patterns defined what will be learned,
according to type when it will be learned, what
activities are involved, and how
it will be assessed. Objective
complete. Very good.

Note that in this activity, you are encouraged to write as many objectives as you want.

Answers in Check for Understanding

This is a short quiz. Answers will only be available to the Teacher.

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