IT Project Management Course Syllabus
Introduction to IT PM
What is a Project
What are Projects, Programs and Portfolios
The role of a Project Manager
Leadership styles
Team Management
Team Maturity, Tuckman Ladder
”T” shaped and “I” shaped people
Skills a PM should have
Soft Skills vs Hard Skills
Mastering Agile mindset: Myths and Practical Reality
What is Agile Mindset
Agile Myths and Reality
Agile Manifesto: Values and Principles
Waterfall and Agile Project Management
Project Uncertainty: Waterfall vs Agile
Waterfall and Agile: Pros & Cons, Use cases
Project Life Cycles: Waterfall and Agile
Reasons of project failures
Agile Frameworks and Methodologies
Mindset vs Methodology vs Tools Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban
XP
Lean/Kanban, Eliminating Waste and Managing Flow
Agile Teams and Roles (PMI Agile Practices)
Development Team
Product Owner
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Agile Estimation Techniques
Planning Poker
Dot Voting
T-shirt Sizing
Fibonacci Sequence for Story Point Estimation
Managing Projects With Scrum
Scrum Values and Artifacts
Scrum Roles
Scrum Pillars
Scrum Events
Scrum Best Practices
User Story, Acceptance Criteria, DOD, DOR
Agile Metrics
Scrum metrics
Kanban Metrics
PM essential tools: Jira, Confluence, Asana, Miro etc
Scrum Board
Kanban Board
IT PM certification types
Product Management and Quality Assurance, UI/UX in a nutshell
Product Management vs Project Management
Product Management Basics
QA Basics
UI/UX
Macro view on Company Level Processes
OKRs: Objectives and Key Results
Interview Questions, getting prepared
Technical topics
Software Development Life Cycle
Planning & Design
Collaborative Development (Git)
DevOps (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery)
Software Testing: Theory and Demo
Server, deployment strategies, Release
Roles in It companies
Programming languages (Backend, Frontend, Full Stack)
DevOps engineer
UX/UI designer
QA engineer
Career path for developer
Top IT technologies
Data, cloud computing
Big Data
Machine learning and AI
Blockchain
IoT
Duration: 3 months
Weekly effort: 6 hours