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