Digital Project Management

Learn how to successfully plan, run and control digital projects. Understand what it takes to keep a project on time and on budget for your stakeholders. Discover how to set criteria for success that will positively impact your business's bottom line.

You Will Learn To:

• Understand the different types of digital project and the key processes each involves
• Devise a clear plan and set the criteria for success
• Effectively manage and control projects aligned to business and stakeholder objectives
• Understand what it takes to keep a project on time and on budget
• Identify issues to avoid potential problems and have a disaster recovery strategy
• Create strategies to manage teams and stakeholders

Details:

• Introduction
  • Types of major digital projects
  • Project Managers vs. Fire Fighters
• Getting the basics right
  • Having a solid business case for the project
  • Devising a clear plan and setting the criteria for success
  • Users and stakeholders
  • Ease and effectiveness models/workshops
• How to arrive at a good plan
  • Visibility, collaboration and accountability
  • Strategy and success metrics
  • Communication within the organisation
  • Consulting relevant external partners
  • Leadership and support
  • Change management
  • Risk and governance
  • Linking business strategies to IT and digital strategies
  • Procurement processes and the legal side
  • Budgeting
• Vendor selection
  • Single vendor or several?
  • Sourcing the right type of vendor
• Project Control
  • Who manages the project - internally and externally?
  • Testing
  • Schools of Project Management, e.g. PRINCE2, Scrum
  • Gantt charts, site maps, wireframes, content manifests/matrixes and online collaborative tools
• Disaster recovery
  • Avoid scapegoating
  • Identifying likely stumbling blocks, e.g. cost, time
  • Get the project back on track!
• Closing the project
  • Prove it has been successful against the agreed objectives
  • Undertake a post project review - and learn from it
  • Produce a project report