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Brussels City Event - Discover the Wonderland of IT Project Management

Description

A guided discussion about what it takes for a project manager to manage an IT project. We propose a discovery of the world of IT project management for non IT project managers. What is the required mindset, what are the skills to acquire? What is the entry ticket for a project manager to secure a successful move in the world of IT software?

Date: 24 February 2022

Workshop capacity: 15 people.

Location: Carpe Diem. Av. de Tervueren 13, 1040 Etterbeek- Face to face round-table event in Brussels centre, online as a backup in case of COVID restrictions

Professional Development Units: 1 PDU

Agenda

18.30 - 19.00 PM:       Welcome participants

19.00 – 20.00 PM:      Round table with guided discussions

20.00 - 20.30 PM:       Networking opportunities

Skills addressed during the round tables:

• Agile:  SCRUM KanBan
  Scrum is a method for managing projects that allows for quick development and testing, especially within a small team.

• Configuration management applied to IT is code versioning tools (GitHub)
  Configuration management is a system for establishing consistency of a product throughout its life and tracks individual configuration items of an IT system. 

• Typical toolset in IT Project management tools : JIRA, Trello, Documentation : Confluence
  The IT project management tools contain features for managing and completing team's project tasks in one platform.

• Delivery: Environments and testing strategies
  A test environment allows software developers to check how a code/program will behave in a live environment

• IT & Business requirements: It’s often difficult to communicate clear requirements upfront, many assumptions can perturbate the vision 
  It’s important to communicate to the IT team about a problem to solve, the features and functionalities required to provide a solution, but sometimes the focus is on features and not on the user goals and experience.

• Turn over in IT and retention of know-how, the know-how on the architecture of the IT solutions
  The IT industry turnover rate is quite high compared to other business sectors. Talent retention is still a challenge for the companies who have mastered recruitment to perfection.

• Software Development cycles
  Software Development Life Cycle encompasses practices to build software applications and typically it is divided into six to eight steps: Planning, Requirements, Design, Build, Document, Test, Deploy, Maintain.