Certified IT Project Manager

Practical course - 8d - 56h00 - Ref. KCO
Price : 4030 CHF E.T.

Certified IT Project Manager




As an experienced project manager, this cycle will give you the necessary perspective on your role. You'll hone your skills beyond the basic techniques of project management and the founding principles of the profession. You'll also delve into the more complex facets of multi-project management and project manager leadership.


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Practical course in person
Available in English on request

Ref. KCO
  8d - 56h00
4030 CHF E.T.




As an experienced project manager, this cycle will give you the necessary perspective on your role. You'll hone your skills beyond the basic techniques of project management and the founding principles of the profession. You'll also delve into the more complex facets of multi-project management and project manager leadership.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Defend a project budget and organize the project management plan
Adapting planning to constraints and developments
Monitoring and decision-making in a multi-project environment
Gain a better understanding of the issues involved in influencing and bringing your project to life
Understanding the role of project bodies and optimizing communication
Master the keys to project leadership

Intended audience
This course is aimed at IT project managers, user project managers and project owners who want to learn more about the course [ Managing an IT project " (ref. GPI).

Prerequisites
Good project management skills. Experience in IT project management required.

Practical details
Teaching methods
The courses in this cycle can be taken in any order.

Course schedule

1
Budget, deadlines and decision-making

  • Justify project costs, build a business case.
  • Account for expenses.
  • Living with an evolving forecast.
  • An initial budget and day-to-day management.
  • Trend monitoring dashboards.
  • Optimization under deadline constraints.
  • Progressive and adaptive planning.
  • Progressive definition of feasible and motivating objectives.
  • Follow-up of deadlines and decisions.
  • Preparation and decision-making.
Case study
Build and present a project budget and associated reporting dashboard. Preparing and making decisions.

2
Motivation and communication

  • Welcome and motivate.
  • Conflicts and differences.
  • Detect them and choose the most effective route.
  • Productivity, quality, deadlines and convergence.
  • Capture real needs.
  • Communicating a vision within the company.
  • Build this vision, test it and, to disseminate it, build a communication plan.
  • Understanding resistance to change.
  • Analyze this information and help the company take ownership of the project results.
Case study
Internal and external resources, choice and harmonization. Tensions when drawing up specifications. Getting an overloaded department to accept an information system. Based entirely on an information system renovation case study.

3
Multi-project management

  • Align strategy, economics and projects.
  • Understand corporate strategy.
  • Positionner chaque projet par rapport à la stratégie.
  • Classer les projets et les sélectionner.
  • Standardize methods.
  • Structuring projects, harmonizing cost and resource categories.
  • Define roles, organize teams.
  • The project portfolio. Types of organization.
  • Clarify roles. Search for synergies between projects.
  • The Project Management Office (PMO): its mission.
Case study
Position a group of projects in relation to a strategy.

4
Project planning and monitoring

  • Establish a reference plan.
  • The multi-project strategy card.
  • Set up budgets and resources.
  • Develop reference planning.
  • Set up budgets and resources.
  • Budget forecasting approach.
  • Draw up a provisional workload plan.
  • Connaître les capacités.
  • Match load/capacity.
  • Medium and long-term planning.
Case study
Drawing up a reference plan. Organization and allocation of budgets and resources.

5
Team building and communication

  • Building teams. Obstacles to planning.
  • Internal consensus and commitment to planning.
  • Risk analysis. Resource unavailability.
  • Decision-making in a multi-project environment.
  • Operation of the multi-project steering committee.
  • Analyze the request and prepare the steering committee's decision.
  • Ensure traceability of the decision.
  • Motivating the players.
  • Optimize resource management.
  • Multi-project communication.
  • What to communicate? To whom? To whom?
  • The multi-project dashboard.
Case study
Project monitoring with dashboards.

6
Project manager leadership

  • Understand the challenges of project leadership.
  • Differentiate between management and leadership.
  • Adopt the behaviors of a leader.
  • Communicate assertively.
  • Give constructive criticism to a colleague.
  • Defuse tense situations within a team.
  • Optimize team relations.
  • Establish a climate of trust within a team.
  • Give regular feedback to employees.
  • Ask for feedback from your colleagues to increase your impact.
  • Encourage the expression of ideas within a project team.
  • Valuing and motivating employees.
Role-playing
Discussions on the specifics of leadership. Role-playing using concrete situations to develop assertive behavior. Case studies and simulations in sub-groups to practice giving feedback to colleagues, and to value and motivate them.

7
Increase your influence

  • Discover your preferred style of communication and influence.
  • Differences between the four influencing styles (cooperative, imaginative, methodical, committed).
  • Better adapt to your contacts.
  • Develop a leadership strategy within the company.
  • Draw up a map of issues and powers within a project.
  • Step back to identify your allies.
  • Develop a strategy to counter opposing forces by building relationships.
Role-playing
Role-playing in pairs to experiment with different styles of communication and influence. Individualized feedback and analysis. Case studies and training in sub-groups using the Powermap.


Publication date : 01/15/2024


Dates and locations

Last places available
Guaranteed date, in person or remotely
Guaranteed session
From 24 to 25 September 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 7 to 8 December 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 24 Sep., 7 Dec.