Course Overview

What is the role of IT project management? IT has become a vehicle upon which an organization’s business technology strategy and objectives are based and managed on. Seamless execution of the projects, uninterrupted delivery of services, stability in operations and maintaining confidentiality for the highly critical information shared worldwide have become the hallmark of IT departments.

This training program is a highly practical course. It has been designed to arrive at a complete understanding of the operations of business and identify apt strategies for the entire organization. It will also empower the IT professionals to achieve goals, deliver value, lead, and contribute to the business growth while upskilling self and their respective teams.

Course Objectives

The objectives of this IT project Management training program are:

·        Developing IT Strategy for business

·        Achieve excellence in Project Management

·        IT sourcing, Contracts, and Negotiation

·        Optimising the performance of the operations

·        Crisis Management

·        Cost-effectiveness

·        Data Management

Who Should Attend?

This training program should be attended by:

·        C-Level Executives

·        Department Heads

·        Team Leaders from other functions

·        IT Consultants

·        IT professionals

·        IT Managers

·        IT Heads

·        IT Executives

·        Service providers of Software, Hardware, and Infrastructure

·        Any other related service providers

Course Outline

Module 1: IT Strategy

·        Relevance of IT to business functioning and strategy

·        A proven process for the success of IT strategy

·        How to optimize IT strategy?

·        Planning for Data Security

·        Drawing and communicating the Plan

·        Implementation of the Plan

Module 2: Excellence in Projects

·        Project Management

·        Program Management

·        Project governance

·        Project reporting

·        Guidelines for successful

o   Project management

o   Change Projects

Module 3: Business Relationship Management

·        Making technology understood

·        Making it comprehensible for non-techies

·        Creating a message for the department

·        Handling challenging situations

·        Maintaining business relationships

Module 4: Operational Excellence

·        Techniques, Merits and De-merits for operational excellence

• ITIL
• Six Sigma
• Lean IT

·        Models for continuous improvement

·        Preparing in advance for any major technology incidents

·        Communicating and leading in times of crisis

Module 5: Commercial Acumen

·        Understand the art of arriving at the right commercial decisions

·        Getting the most for IT partners

·        Contract guidelines

·        Negotiating better outcomes

·        Negotiating as a team

Module 6: Personal Leadership

·        How to optimize time and activities?

·        Building a Personal Brand

·        Maintaining reputation

·        Mandatory Skills for IT executives and managers

o   Emotional Intelligence

o   The seeker of knowledge

o   The Negotiator

o   The Mediator

o   The information manager

o   Strong leader

o   Interpersonal Skills

o   Management Skills

o   Programming Skills

o   Application Development Skills

o   Networking Skills

Module 7: Peer Leadership

·        Assessing leadership style of self

·        Awareness of the leadership style of others

·        Strategies to influence different leadership styles

Module 8: Team Leadership

·        Model for high-performing IT Teams

·        Understanding Team dynamics

·        Building and motivating IT teams

·        Maximising the performance of the IT team

·        Creating the vision for Technology

Module 9: Corporate Leadership

·        What CEO’s look for?

·        Skills for IT leaders at boardroom level

·        Secrets of Becoming a Successful CIO

·        The knowledge seeker

General Notes

• All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants' needs
• The participant must be conversant in English
• Presentations are well-guided, practical exercises, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are experts with more than 10 years of experience.
• Upon completion of training the participant will be issued with a Foscore development center certificate (FDC-K)
• Training will be done at the Foscore development center (FDC-K) centers. We also offer inhouse and online training on the client schedule
• Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
• The course fee for onsite training includes facilitation training materials, 2 coffee breaks, a buffet lunch, and a Certificate of successful completion of Training. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, airport transfers, visa application dinners, health/accident insurance, and other personal expenses.
• Accommodation, pickup, freight booking, and Visa processing arrangement, are done on request, at discounted prices.
• Tablet and Laptops are provided to participants on request as an add-on cost to the training fee.
• One-year free Consultation and Coaching provided after the course.
• Register as a group of more than two and enjoy a discount of (10% to 50%)
• Payment should be done before commence of the training or as agreed by the parties, to the FOSCORE DEVELOPMENT CENTER account, so as to enable us to prepare better for you.
• For any inquiries reach us at training@fdc-k.org or +254712260031
• Website:www.fdc-k.org