Successfully managing IT projects
Stanwick Academy

Successfully managing IT projects

Learn in two days how to successfully complete your IT projects through balanced project management! You will learn the crucial steps of any IT project. You will learn how to involve all stakeholders in thesuccess of your IT project. You will learn how to successfully complete business-critical IT projects.
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Approach

  • This training consists of 2 (consecutive or non-consecutive) training days.
  • The course offers a mix of theoretical underpinnings and practical exercises.
  • Each participant should preferably have a project as a project leader or project team member.
  • The training provides the opportunity for experience exchange with other participants.
  • The learning experience is supported and enhanced by the use of an online learning platform.
  • A training certificate can be provided.

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Why this programme?

1. Crucial role of information technology and your assignment within it?

Few IT projects have a successful end within the predefined deadlines and budgets. 

The initially planned resources (human and financial) are rarely sufficient to successfully complete the IT project. The IT project lifecycle is often underestimated, the cost under budgeted, the staff inadequate. But IT projects are becoming more and more business-critical. More and more, your company's future and competitiveness depend on the success or failure of your IT projects. Implementing a new IT solution on time can give your company the competitive edge it needs. Wrong project management, with incorrect risk management or needs analysis, can completely paralyse your operations. All the more reason to think about managing IT projects professionally.

2. The IT project manager's new challenges

In addition to the business-critical role IT plays, the phenomenal speed at which technology changes is creating new challenges. Projects follow each other ever faster and their complexity keeps increasing. This leads to a strong need for competent people with the latest technological as well as operational knowledge and skills. This puts additional pressure on the IT project manager, who must be able to understand and manage this risk. In addition, there is currently great pressure for better project management of new technology projects (ERP, e-commerce, APS, supply chain planning, business intelligence, data warehousing, CRM, etc.) and projects where old technology concepts and architecture are giving way to new ones. Moreover, many companies are growing towards a service concept, within which IT plays an increasingly crucial role. Many organisations face the problem that they need their (experienced) staff to run their daily business and cannot have them constantly involved in projects ... Hence the need for a structured and efficient approach to IT project management.

3. Required (non-)technical competences of the project manager

This programme provides you - as an IT project manager - with a proven roadmap to help you successfully set up, manage and close your projects. The programme emphasises the practical side of project management but also covers techniques on estimation, leadership and risk management. Moreover, our trainer pays specific attention to the non-technical competences necessary for successful project management, such as conflict handling, team building and motivating people. During the course, constant reference is made to actual cases and examples, drawn from the trainer's extensive IT project management experience. If, as an IT manager, you are tasked with bringing complex projects to a successful conclusion, you cannot afford to miss this programme.


Programme

1. Introduction to project management

  • What is a project
  • What is project management
  • Roles & responsibilities of a project manager

2. Project management environment and processes

  • A systematic view of project management
  • Project phases, management reviews and the project life cycle
  • Project management versus program & portfolio management

3. Principles and objectives of IT projects

What is meant by management of project scope?
Success factors of software and system integration projects.

  • Initialising a project
  • Strategic planning and project selection
  • Identification of initial needs of users and clients
  • Identification of potential projects
  • Definition and analysis of a business case. Selection of projects
  • Project charter

4. IT project management in 5 steps

  • Step 1: defining an IT project
  • Step 2: setting up the project governance of an IT project
  • Step 3: estimating time and costs 
  • Step 4: monitoring the progress and quality of the IT project
  • Step 5: setting up a change & acceptance procedure

5. Management of project communication

  • Managing communication in and around the project
  • Communicating about the project: what is critical
  • Introduction to stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management

6. Management of project risks

  • Identification of risks
  • Qualitative & quantitative risk analysis
  • Preventive and reactive risk management
  • Risk monitoring and control

7. Successful termination of an IT project

  • Completion of the IT project
  • Transfer of the project result
  • Success factors in installation, commissioning, testing and acceptance of IT projects
  • Dissolution of the project team

8. Evaluation of the IT project


Testimonials

"The approach Stanwick developed for implementing Performance Management is practical, powerful, realistic and very respectful of what lives on the shop floor. Collaboration, between teams and people, during and after implementation are central and secure sustainable practices that drive continuous improvement!"

Participant

"Stanwick's strength is that they also thoroughly work out the "behavioural component" of projects. You notice this not only in the content of the training, but also in the cooperation. The trainers we work with know very well how to sense exactly what the client needs and when. Once the needs are clear, they create a tailor-made and appropriate training. The special rapport with us as customers, creates a partnership for the future. The origin story of "LEAN" around those aircraft, can still fascinate and retell everyone who was in the training."

Participant

"If statistics were explained in the same practical way in our school study, more people would deal with data more professionally."
"A course that I hated at the university suddenly becomes a passion and my most important tool for process improvement."
"Unbelievable how ignorant and clumsy we dealt with data before this training."
"It is unbelievable how we can better understand and make our process easier to understand with a very limited number of tests (Design of Experiments)."
"The pallet of tools provided now allows us to find the causes and find solutions for practically all problems."
"The tools provided in the Green Belt are now also much clearer to us."
"The importance of statistical process control is seriously underestimated and it is not understandable that it will no longer be applied."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"Strong interaction with own examples from the group."
"One of the better trainings that I have already attended. Concrete and useful tips."
"Very interesting training as a capstone for tackling projects."
"I am very happy that I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects."
"Theory becomes very practical by working with actual projects."

Participant

"A course that I hated at the university suddenly becomes a passion and my most important tool for process improvement."

Participant

"The pallet of tools provided now allows us to find the causes and find solutions for practically all problems."

Participant

"The tools provided in the Green Belt are now also much clearer to us."

Participant

"Unbelievable how ignorant and clumsy we dealt with data before this training."

Participant

"It is unbelievable how we can better understand and make our process easier to understand with a very limited number of tests (Design of Experiments)."

Participant

"If statistics were explained in the same practical way in our school study, more people would deal with data more professionally."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"The importance of statistical process control is seriously underestimated and it is not understandable that it will no longer be applied."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"I learned a lot to work with effectively."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the better courses.”
“The link to practice makes statistics a very interesting and useful fact."
"Not only useful for Six Sigma projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude to the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

"The training has given me insight to solve complex problems in a structured way."
"The training is strongly applicable within own work domain, very practical."
"The link to practice makes the lean philosophy a very interesting and useful read."
"Not only useful for Lean projects, but surely also in day-to-day life/work."
"After the training, you know what you are getting into in a project, or what you are not getting into."
"Insight into practical application, real-life examples are realistic."

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“The training helped me to understand how to solve complex problems in a structured way.”
“The training is highly applicable within my own work area, it is very practical.”
“After the Green Belt training, you realise what you’re getting yourself into when starting a process improvement project.”
“Certainly one of the best courses.”
“The training convinced me of the practical use of statistics.”
“Useful not only for Six Sigma projects, but certainly also in my daily life / work”
“Insight into the practical use of these methodologies, case studies are realistic.”
“Very open attitude of the trainers, they responded well to needs of the group.”

Participant

“Within our organisation we are convinced that the principles of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement form the basis to understand and tackle performance losses. To be able to translate this conviction into practical improvement projects, we turned to Stanwick because they were able to provide training specifically tailored to our business. For each element of a Lean Production System, Stanwick could provide very concrete and recognisable examples to clarify the theory. As a result, 8 participants from different departments, with new insights and a lot of enthusiasm, have successfully completed a Lean Green Belt Project. During this training and during the implementation of the projects, the participants were forced to look in a different way at the organisation and processes within their specific department and the link to other departments. We now see a close team that has become stronger in recognising losses and in identifying flows within manufacturing. Through this approach, improvements have been made to processes that would otherwise not have been questioned. We can therefore demonstrate that this training has more than exceeded the investment. It is now up to us to make this improvement culture grow further in our company."

Participant

“Within our organisation we are convinced that the principles of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement form the basis to understand and tackle performance losses. To be able to translate this conviction into practical improvement projects, we turned to Stanwick because they were able to provide training specifically tailored to our business. For each element of a Lean Production System, Stanwick could provide very concrete and recognisable examples to clarify the theory. As a result, 8 participants from different departments, with new insights and a lot of enthusiasm, have successfully completed a Lean Green Belt Project. During this training and during the implementation of the projects, the participants were forced to look in a different way at the organisation and processes within their specific department and the link to other departments. We now see a close team that has become stronger in recognising losses and in identifying flows within manufacturing. Through this approach, improvements have been made to processes that would otherwise not have been questioned. We can therefore demonstrate that this training has more than exceeded the investment. It is now up to us to make this improvement culture grow further in our company."

"Stanwick's strength is that they also thoroughly work out the "behavioural component" of projects. You notice this not only in the content of the training, but also in the cooperation. The trainers we work with know very well how to sense exactly what the client needs and when. Once the needs are clear, they create a tailor-made and appropriate training. The special rapport with us as customers, creates a partnership for the future. The origin story of "LEAN" around those aircraft, can still fascinate and retell everyone who was in the training."

Participant

"After an introductory game to immerse everyone in the Obeya mindset and the working groups setting the right KPIs, we were ready to really get started. Obeya has since been rolled out at various levels across almost the entire organisation and we clearly see the added value."

Participant

"After an introductory game to immerse everyone in the Obeya mindset and the working groups setting the right KPIs, we were ready to really get started. Obeya has since been rolled out at various levels across almost the entire organisation and we clearly see the added value."

Participant

"Our team workshop was really illuminating and enjoyable."

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"Very interesting and enriching experience!"

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‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

Participant

‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

-

"The Stanwick team has provided my HR team with excellent training, coaching and serious challenges in the analysis of our HR processes. This way, the HR team can take further steps in realising its mission to make competent, performing and committed personnel available to our customer in an efficient and customer-oriented way."

Participant

"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. Really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."
"I have learned a lot to work with effectively."

-

‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

Participant

‘In an interactive and playful way, you learn very clearly the fundamentals of Obeya’
‘Strong interaction with own examples from the group.’
‘Very interesting training as a capstone to get started with Obeya.’
‘I am very glad I took the course because it really adds value to my ongoing projects.’
‘Theory becomes very practical by working with real projects.’

-

"Interesting content brought in an interactive way. Good exercises."
"Very interactive course, with also interaction between the different participants of the training. Challenging us with the exercises gave me an extra incentive to do well."
"Good energy, well explained, trainer really fun and professional. Really good balance between seriousness and fun. The way the training went was perfect. Really good way to respect our "flow". She was very flexible and adapted the training to the audience, which is not easy."
"Thanks to the training, I can now use tools to make my workload/time more efficient."
"I have learned a lot to work with effectively."

Participant

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Fundamentals

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