| Training Curriculum |
| Day One Agenda: |
8:00 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
9:00 |
Updates on the Latest Project Management Mandates for Information
Technology in Government
• Receive updates on new changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, OMB’s Exhibit 300
and the Clinger-Cohen Act
• Examine the CIO Council’s Risk-Based Project Manager Guidance and OPM’s 2210 Series |
10:00 |
Maintaining Relevance: Keep Up With Changes in Your Organization, IT Project Portfolio and Technological Advancements
• Sustain an external view to monitor organizational changes that may impact or negate your project goals
• Stay abreast of technological changes to ensure your IT solution does not become obsolete |
11:00 |
Quality and Earned Value Management for IT Projects
• Examine cutting-edge quality management concepts and explore the application and benefits of each
• Utilize Six Sigma techniques to manage and evaluate project quality |
12:15 |
Networking Lunch & Peer Exchange |
1:30 |
Managing Software Projects
• Establish key customer service, usability and transaction-oriented metrics for measuring software performance
• Identify best practices in software management |
2:30 |
Managing E-Government Projects
• Utilize performance measures to ensure a customer-centric focus
• Explore pressing challenges unique to E-Government managers |
3:30 |
Controlling IT Risk and Information Security
• Develop an effective risk management plan using NIST mandates and guidance
• Understand the latest strategies for managing project risk and maximizing security controls |
5:00 |
Adjourn |
|
Day Two Agenda: |
9:00 |
Project Management for Systems Integration
• Understand challenges that make systems integration projects high-risk
• Develop key project requirements for industry contractors and agency partners |
10:00 |
Systems Life-Cycle Management
• Establish project goals, objectives and risk plans for each stage of the systems project life-cycle
• Determine interdependencies on other projects in the organization and assess impact on
project goals |
11:00 |
Infrastructure Design & IT Architecture
• Analyze your network configuration and assess related security threats
• Pinpoint critical success factors in aligning IT project objectives with your organization’s
enterprise architecture |
12:00 |
Networking & Peer Exchange |
1:00 |
IT Configuration Management
• Implement a configuration management system to track system operations, proposed
changes and approval protocols
• Utilize systems development models to determine needed configuration changes and tasks
for systems modernization |
2:00 |
Conducting a Project Close Out for IT
• Establish firm deadlines and determining factors for project completion
• Verify completed scope criteria and customer acceptance
• Understand closeout specifications for IT contracts |
3:00 |
Performing an Operational Analysis for Steady State Projects
• Determine which types of systems project require operational analysis
• Link operational analysis with earned value metrics and the Performance Reference Model |
4:00 |
Application Workshop: Developing an IT Project Management Plan
• Develop an effective project management team based on your type of IT project
• Assess, manage and mitigate risk for improved project results |
5:00 |
Adjourn |
