IT Project Management   

Welcome to the IT Project Manager Career Academy,  your comprehensive gateway to learning about project management in the field of Information Technology. This course is designed for aspiring project managers, IT professionals looking to upskill, and anyone interested in understanding the intricacies of project management in IT.

Throughout this program, you will gain hands-on experience with the fundamental concepts and technologies that drive modern project management. From foundational knowledge to advanced techniques, the IT Project Manager Career Academy includes the IBM IT Project Manager Professional Certificate and 9 Guided Projects:

• Create and Manage a Project Dashboard with Wrike
• Change Leaderships: Strategic Route Analysis with Miro
• How to use the IFE-EFE Matrix for Strategic Analysis
• Create a Custom Workflow with Wrike
• Automate Tasks and Processes with Jira
• Agile Projects: Creating User Stories with Value in Taiga
• How to create a Jira SCRUM project
• Change Leadership: Developing a Strategic Gap Analysis with Miro
• How to use Roadmaps in Jira

The course combines video lectures, interactive labs, and real-world projects to ensure you not only learn but apply your knowledge effectively. With guided assessments and feedback, you will build a robust portfolio that showcases your skills to potential employers.

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Prepare for a career in the high-growth field of IT project management. In this program, you’ll develop the skills and tools to have a competitive edge in the job market as an entry-level IT project manager in less than 3 months. No prior knowledge or experience is required.

IT project managers track projects, manage risks, and work cross-functionally to support an organization’s IT infrastructure and software development. IT project managers often act as a liaison between the business and technical functions to drive high-impact projects to a successful completion.

You’ll learn in-demand skills used by professional IT project managers including planning and managing projects, effective communication and leadership methods, agile methodologies, and gain a deep understanding of the concepts, tools, and language of project management. Alongside these crucial skills, you’ll receive foundational technical training in hardware, operating systems, software, cybersecurity, and cloud computing. In addition, you will be trained in software engineering fundamentals, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), software development tools, technologies, and stacks to set you up for success as an IT project manager.

Upon completing the full program, you’ll gain access to career support resources to help you in your job search and you’ll earn a Professional Certificate from IBM to showcase your proficiency to potential employers.

In this 2.5-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to create and manage custom dashboards in Wrike to plan, execute and track both your personal work, team actions and multiple projects. You will use system and custom widgets, and create widgets directly from your tasks filtered list views.

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By the end of this guided project, you will be fluent in creating a change implementation model using Route Analysis for a hands-on example. This will equip you with a systemic implementation framework for change that can be utilised in professional and personal life.

Change happens all the time, and in being able to identify factors involved in change and developing a model for how to implement change you increase your chances for success. This analysis will help you if you are in:

+ Strategy development
+ Program Management
+ Project Management
+ Business Process Re-Engineering
+ Product Development
+ Organisational Development

Furthermore, this guided project is designed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. You will use proven models in change management with Miro to develop your change leadership skills for various settings.

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In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will be able to analyze your organization and identify your competitive advantage with the Internal Factor Evaluation-External Factor Evaluation (IFE-EFE) matrix. IFE-EFE matrix is strategic management tools used for input stage of strategy formulation. The IFE is focused on the internal dimension of the organization by looking at the strengths and weaknesses. While the EFE is concerned with the external factors by focusing on the opportunities and threats the organization is exposed to. The IFE-EFE matrix is created by assigning weight to each of the factors based on their perceived impact. Then the factors are ranked based on the company performance on each. The weighted score is determined by multiplying the weight by the ranks. Finally, the information on the overall scores of the IFE- EFE would reveal if the company meets the threshold to survive the competitiveness of the industry.

To demonstrate the application of the IFE-EFE matrix, we will use a spreadsheet to analyze a division of our energy services company together. The example of the case study would empower you to use the model to analyze your company or any other company of your choice. The project is for business leaders and entrepreneurs who want have a deep insight on how their internal and external factors determines their competitiveness. Also, for strategist who are interested in helping organization in making informed strategic decisions. At the end of the project, you will be able to use the IFE-EFE matrix to create a competitive advantage.

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In this 2 hours project you will create custom workflows in Wrike to manage your projects, change status to tasks using custom workflows and creating dashboards to display task by workflow and status.

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In this 2 and a half hours long guided project you will learn the basics of Jira automation. You will create automation rules using triggers, conditions and actions to auto assign tasks, apply sub tasks templates to reflect your business processed into your project management. You will add branches applying conditions based on relationships between issues so to automatically update their status depending on completion of their sub-tasks. Finally you will use smart values to interact with Jira information and optimize communication by sending automatic emails depending on events of your project management.

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This guided project was developed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. During this course, you will use input from previous phases of project development. Together we will identify, map, and analyse User Stories which are the components that make up the themes of the customer experience with the product and service.

This is an important step for individuals or companies wanting to map value for customer to product features in new products or services; also, for enhancing their existing offerings. By the end of this guided project, you will be fluent in identifying and creating User Stories for agile projects.

We will discuss directions for the next phase of the project development; furthermore, the learned concepts and tools will help you generate solutions for use as part of your project management solutions and in presentations to various stakeholders.

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In this 2 hour long project you will create a SCRUM project in Jira, exploring the SCRUM agile methodology and familiarizing with all of its elements. You will create user stories and tasks, plan and action sprints, manage the backlog and sprints with the board, create epics, add dependencies and finally creating burn-down charts to evaluate the progression of your sprints.

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By the end of this guided project, you will be fluent in identifying, and mapping variables for Gap Analysis using a hands-on example. This will enable you to map business states from the AS IS to the TO BE state which is important in for preparing and managing change in professional and personal life.

Change happens all the time and in being able to identify factors involved in change and preparing to manage change you increase your chances for success . This analysis will help you if you are in:

+ Strategy development

+ Program Management

+ Project Management

+ Business Process Re-Engineering

+ Product Development

+ Organisational Development

And much more. On a personal level this analysis can help you to map where you are and where you want to be for example:

+ Competing in sports

+ Having a professional goal

+ Developing a good habit

Furthermore, this guided project is designed to engage and harness your visionary and exploratory abilities. You will use proven models in change management with Miro to identify the gaps in products/services, and further equip you with the knowledge to utilise the learned concepts, methodologies, and tools to prepare for change in various settings.

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In this 1.5 hour guided project you will learn to use basic roadmaps in Jira, creating epics and issues, planning and visualizing timelines and assignments, editing progress and dependencies, adding labels and finally exporting and sharing the roadmap with project team mates and stakeholders.

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