Course Description

 

Today’s information technology project manager faces projects of increasing size, complexity and risk. Your job as project manager is to make sure that all of the components come together and to see that the project is completed on time and within budget.

Yet the definition of "all the components” keeps getting broader and more complex. More and more IT projects depend on critical systems integration (SI) issues, including client/server development, open systems design, enterprise solution implementation, legacy systems maintenance and multi-site deployment.

Now you can identify and explore the complex technical and business issues involved in integrating custom software, hardware solutions, telecommunications networks, commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), business procedures and services, and support facilities.

Through case studies and classroom discussions, you’ll experience what it takes to be the project manager on a typical SI project. You’ll develop an understanding and appreciation of the problems that can occur and explore ways to solve them. And you’ll gain an understanding of the critical need for a systems integration project manager on large IT projects in the real world.

If you face a future assignment as a systems integration project manager, this course will give you tools and techniques needed for survival.

Identify and explore the complex technical and business issues involved in integrating custom software, hardware solutions, telecommunications networks, commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), business procedures and services, and support facilities.

Develop an understanding and appreciation of the problems that can occur and explore ways to solve them.

Course Objective

 

·         Plan, estimate, and organize system integration efforts

·         Apply the decomposition-integration paradigm to manage complexity

·         Manage the implementation of complex system interfaces

·         Assess and respond to the risks inherent in integration projects

·         Apply the decomposition-integration paradigm to manage complexity

·         Focus on the business emphasis of systems integration

 

 

Who Should attend?

 

 

Course Outline

 

What is Systems Integration (SI)?

·         Systems Integration and SI projects

·         Typical SI projects

·         Importance of SI project management

 

Process Evaluation

·         Managing the complexity of SI projects

·         Decomposition and delegation as key paradigms in SI

·         Value of formal methods, processes and skills for managing SI projects

 

SI Project Organization

·         Creating effective SI WBS

·         Developing effective SI project teams

·         Organizing for SI projects

 

Controlling SI Projects

·         Estimating for SI projects

·         Define SI metrics for project performance measurement

·         Process mapping

·         Interaction complexity in SI projects

 

Integration Risk Management

·         SI risk management

·         Tools for managing SI complexity

·         Configuration and integration management

 

SI Execution Management

·         SI project execution

·         Requirements analysis

·         Procurement considerations

·         Execution change analysis

 

Integration and Testing Management

·         Testing concerns for SI

·         Managing testing issues

·         Creating test plans

 

SI Deployment Management

·         Key system deployment issues in SI projects

·         Single and multi-site deployment

·         Options for predictable crises

 

SI Project Closeout

·         SI closeout issues

·         The SI project closeout plan