Expert in project management
Course Goal
To form a professional level of project manager, able to independently lead IT projects from business idea to delivery, manage people, risks, budget, changes and uncertainty and make strong management decisions.
The program combines the principles of PMBOK® 8, modern Agile and hybrid approaches, IT project practice and 20 years of expertise of the course author - Maryna Melnyk.
This Course is Designed For
- Project Managers in IT who want to systematize their work on current projects, expand their knowledge, and move to a new level of tasks and responsibilities.
- Managers from related fields who want to dive into the world of project management and learn the tools and principles of managing IT projects.
- IT specialists who want to explore a new direction and consider changing their professional field.
Learning Format
- Course duration: 28 sessions × 14 weeks
- Homework after each lecture and personalized feedback from the trainer
- Access to video recordings and materials in Google Classroom
What you get after completing the online course:
Program
- Stages of the project lifecycle and the software development lifecycle.
- The role of the project manager, key project participants, and effective interaction with them.
- Core project artifacts and tools.
- Popular development methodologies, models, and frameworks.
- Industry standards.
- Effective communication.
- Project estimation methods.
- Timeline and budget planning.
- Risk assessment, analysis, and management.
- Quality assurance.
- Required metrics.
- Requirements analysis, documentation, and management.
- Change management.
- Software architecture.
- Product validation and delivery.
- Selecting team members and forming the project team.
- Onboarding and integrating newcomers.
- Creating conditions for effective work.
- Team development methods and productivity improvement.
- Stakeholder Identification;
- Stakeholder Analysis: power / interest / influence, expectations and interests;
- Stakeholder Engagement.
- Communication Strategy;
- Status Reporting;
- Expectations Management;
- Difficult Conversations;
- Negotiation;
- Feedback;
- Communicating with Business, Team, and Client.
- Business, User, and Functional Requirements
- Requirements Documentation Formats
- Requirements Traceability
- Acceptance Criteria
- Change Requests
- Product/Project Decomposition in Different Methodologies
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- WBS and Work Packages
- Epics and User Stories
- Requirements Dependencies
- Definition of "Ready"
- Estimation Culture and Methods
- Expert Judgment; analogous estimating; bottom-up estimating; three-point estimating
- Estimation Uncertainty
- Estimation Anti-Patterns
- Key project milestones
- Traditional planning dependencies and critical path
- Project schedule
- Buffers
- Planning in Agile and hybrid projects
- Delivery planning
- Roadmap
- Project budget
- Cost estimation
- CAPEX / OPEX; direct/indirect costs
- Forecasting and actual costs
- Financial reporting
- Positive and negative risks
- Risk identification
- Probability / impact
- Risk matrix
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment
- Risk response
- Risk owner
- Risk monitoring
- Scenario thinking
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Project system resilience
- Change requests
- Impact analysis
- Change control
- Impact on scope / cost / timeline
- Stakeholder alignment
- Process coordination
- Managing dependencies
- Execution control without micromanagement.
- Definition of quality
- Quality management
- Quality assurance
- Quality control
- Deliverable acceptance criteria
- Quality metrics
- KPI / OKR
- Process metrics
- Team metrics
- Project health dashboard
- Product metrics
- Business metrics
- Problem management
- Root cause analysis
- Crisis communication
- Recovery plan
- Lessons learned
- Final validation and acceptance
- Release readiness
- Handover
- Training
- Benefits realization
- Project team structure
- Roles and responsibilities
- RACI
- Competencies
- Distributed teams
- Cross-functional teams
- Team development
- Team agreements
- Continuous improvement
- Culture of accountability
- Leadership versus management
- Psychological safety
- Delegation
- Accountability
- Components of a project manager's resources
- Signs of project manager exhaustion
- Burnout prevention measures
- Ethical principles of a project manager
- Project infrastructure: people, processes, tools, and information
- Roles, responsibilities, and decision-making model
- Information environment and project documentation
- PM tools and AI for management
- Regular meetings
- Management reporting
- Decision-making rights
- Basics of IT product architecture and components
- Environments, releases, and CI/CD
- Technical debt, dependencies, and technical risks
- How a PM reads technical documentation and speaks the same language with the team
- Using AI to understand and control technical aspects of a project
- Final documentation, certifications, final audit
- Post mortem: how to analyze and record outcomes
- Lessons learned and knowledge transfer
- Transition to support and process management
- Business case
- Stakeholder strategy
- Budget and schedule
- Risk register
- Communication plan
- Team structure
- Quality approach
- Metrics
- Implementation plan
- Project control
- Change management
FAQ
The course is designed for current project managers, heads of related areas and IT specialists who want to change their field. You will receive a complete set of tools for project management in IT and learn to apply them in practice, creating a real project for the final presentation.
The program includes an in-depth study of SDLC, popular development methodologies and frameworks. You'll learn how to plan timelines and budgets, manage risk, requirements, and software architecture, as well as effectively build a team, onboard new hires, and improve overall productivity.
Intensive training lasts 14 weeks and consists of 28 online lessons. After each lecture, you complete homework and receive feedback from the trainer. All videos and the complete database of materials (including checklists) will be stored in Google Classroom for another 3 months after the end of the course.
The cost of training is UAH 27,000, while a loyalty program is in effect and there is an opportunity to attend a trial class. Graduates can complete internships for their portfolios, and we help you build your resume and prepare for interviews so you feel confident in the job market.
