BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management

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.