The challenges of IT projects are numerous.  From ever-changing technology to new competitive challenges, and from the Internet to wireless and beyond, the need for new IT capabilities never ends. Whether you manage IT consultants in a professional services business or IT professionals delivering service from inside the enterprise, you’ve learned that technical skill isn’t enough — your IT teams also need consulting and project skills!

IT Project Management 101®  is an interactive learning experience that follows the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge framework, with a unique IT spin.  While preparing IT teams to manage scope, budget, and schedule, we go beyond these fundamentals to emphasize the human elements.  Leadership, influence, communication, consensus; these are the skills that the superior project manager displays. 

IT Project Management 101 is a facilitated, interactive session that covers the basic disciplines of project management:

•          IT Project Lifecycles
•          Scope, Budget and Schedule
•          Project Planning
•          Estimation
•          Project Execution
•          Managing Project Quality
•          Building Great Project Teams
•          Managing Expectations
•          Managing Risk
•          Delivering the Full Value of IT
•          Closing the Loop

IT PM 101 is an interactive work session, not a "talking head" lecture. Attendees form teams and solve complex project problems on realistic case studies.  Students work through real scope, budget, and schedule issues, they develop strategies to troubleshoot client commitment or communication problems, and they develop real project plans as a team.  This real-world practice, with the personal guidance and coaching of our instructors, is often recognized by our students as the most valuable element of these sessions.

Immediately relevant, full of anecdotes and lessons-learned as well as PMI-certified disciplines, IT Project Management 101 is designed to prepare your IT team to add more value for their clients and gain skills critical for their future.

This is not a lecture series — it’s a series of interactive, facilitated sessions in which participants form teams, work through case studies, develop their own lists of Critical Success Factors, and develop action plans for their future development.  These sessions have been presented to Fortune 500 clients around the world.  For the major names in the IT industry and for every enterprise that depends on IT professionals for competitive advantage,  these sessions and the accompanying books are an important building block in the development of the consultative skills their IT teams need.

Rick Freedman is an experienced consultant, project manager, and facilitator.  He is available for engagements that require senior project and program management skills, to assist in the development of PMO's and project methodologies, and to lead strategic IT projects that require experience in communicating with senior executives, in building global IT teams, and in bringing together the best technical talent from his extensive worldwide network to solve complex IT challenges.

 Rick is an experienced speaker, and presents seminars and keynote addresses to organizations worldwide.  Some of Rick's recent speaking engagements include a half-day "Negotiating Skills" seminar, a keynote address on "Strategic IT Project Management", and a two-day training session on "Agile Project Management".  Please consider engaging Rick to help upgrade the consulting and strategic skills of your IT organization.