BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

Course Introduction

The BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management course provides the delegates with the basic knowledge of IT Project Management. Enhance your skills to become a professional Business Analyst with Best Practice Training. It provides the delegates with the knowledge regarding the principles of Project Management. It also enriches the delegates knowledge concerning techniques that help to support best practices in the industry that are complementary to other methodologies such as PRINCE2®.

BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

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Course Content
What's Included

During this course, BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management, the delegates learn various issues regarding Project Management. These include Planning, Monitoring, and Control.

Before the candidates sit for the examination, they must have covered the course contents at an authorised centre.

Examination

The candidate sits for the exam after course completion in order to obtain the BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management.

Type: Closed Book Exam

Duration: 60 minutes

Questions: 40

Pass Percentile: 65% (26/40)

Course Content

Project and Project Work

Projects and Project Management
The Life Cycles – System and Project
Strategies for Implementation
The Main Project Documentations – Purpose and Content.
Discounted Cash Flows – Use and Importance as a method of Investment Appraisal.
Post Implementation Review.

Project Planning

Project Deliverables and Transitional Products.
Work and Product Breakdowns.
Product Definitions.
Checkpoints and Milestones.
Activity-on-Node Networks.
Allocating Resources, Smoothing and Leveling.
Resource Histograms.
Work Schedules and Gantt Charts.

Monitoring Control

Life-Cycle of Project Control
Progress Information – Collecting and Presenting
Progress Report and their Contents
Earned Value Analysis – Its Use.
The Reporting Cycle.
Reporting Structures in Projects.
Acceptance and Contingency.
Exception Reports and Plans.

Quality

Quality Control and Quality Assurance
Detecting Defects During Project Life Cycle
Various Procedures of Quality Control
Types of Testing
Inspection Process and Peer reviews
The Quality Principles – ISO 9001:2000 QMS.

Estimating

Estimation – Over and Under and its Effects
Efforts versus Duration
Effort and Cost Relationship
Using Expert Judgment
The Delphi Methodology
Using the Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches for Estimating
Using similarity in estimation.

Risk

An Introduction
Responses and Actions
Risks Related to Information System Development
Assessing Costs/Benefits of Risk Reduction.
Maintaining Risk Registers and Logs

Project Communication and Project Organization

Isolating Stakeholders and their Apprehensions.
The Project Patron.
Establishing The Project Authority.
Stating Structures and Accountabilities.
Project Managers and Their Desirable Characteristics.
The Project Support Office and its Role.
The Matrix Management with the Project Team.
Styles of Management.
Communication.
Team Building and Team Subtleties.

What's Included

Exam(s) included

Tutor Support

Certificate

Courseware

Refreshment

Prerequisites

The course as such carries no special prerequisites but is meant for Project Support Personnel and IS Staff.

Photographic evidence is also required to be in possession of the candidates while appearing for the exam. A candidate may not be allowed to sit the exam without a valid id proof.

Differently-abled candidates are given more time as are the candidates who have a different native language than that of the exam.

Target Audience

Delegates who are new to project management and work within the IT industry.

Delegates Will Learn How To

The delegates learn the tools required for successful IS project management along with terminology and techniques.
They will also be prepared to sit the exam after the course concludes.

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