IT Project Management Courses

ESI offers five IT-related project management courses that are tailored for the IT professional and the unique needs of managing projects in this high-risk arena. You'll learn to take control of scheduling, budgeting and resource allocation and how to avoid common pitfalls that sidetrack IT projects.

In addition, ESI's IT project management classes will help you master the "soft skills" essential to a successful project – communication with stakeholders, including clients, team management and project leadership. While you're polishing your skills, you can also pursue a Master's Certificate in Project Management with a Concentration in IT Project Management and work toward professional and academic credits. ESI IT project management courses are an excellent way to prepare for the challenging PMP^® certification exam.

Courses

• Managing IT Projects*
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• IT Risk Management
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• Network and Telecom Principles for Project Managers
• Software Testing for Better Project Management
• Systems Integration Project Management

* Depending on your background, you may choose to take this course first.

Prepare for PMP^® Certification Exam

IT project management courses are an excellent way to prepare for this challenging exam. ESI offers two courses that can help you test and strengthen your knowledge in key subject areas, PMP ^® Exam Power Prep and PMP^® Exam Preparation. ESI also offers PMP^® certification exam study guides

Build Your Professional Credentials

• Earn a Master's Certificate in Project Management with a Concentration in IT Project Management
• Maintain your PMP^® certification by earning professional development units (PDUs)
• Maintain your Certified Computing Professional (CCP) credential
• Earn continuing education credits (CEUs) and other academic credits

What You'll Learn

When you complete these IT project management courses, you will have learned to:

• Develop a focused project plan to manage IT projects
• Schedule realistically and avoid costly delays
• Develop a results-driven project management team
• Manage IT project risks using a proven eight-step process
• Identify the project management considerations related to software testing activities
• Find solutions to problems specific to data communications, software, hardware, testing and systems integration projects

How You'll Benefit

IT project management training can teach you approaches to improve your on-the-job performance and maximize your organization's ability to succeed. By embracing IT project management methodology, you and your organization can gain a competitive edge by:

• Reducing project completion time by 50 percent or more
• Lowering expenses so that projects consistently come in within or under budget
• Winning additional contracts by demonstrating formal project management knowledge and methodology
• Rescuing troubled IT projects through improved communications and constant project review
• Serving more customers through time-saving, streamlined project management processes
• Accelerating your company's efforts to tap new markets through reduced project cycle time

And as an IT project management professional, you'll not only walk away with techniques to help you survive and thrive, you'll gain expertise you can use to build your career. Our students tell us that our training not only prepares them for the future, it opens doors to new projects and career advancement.

How You'll Learn

When you come to class, you'll find out how top-notch professionals in all kinds of industries are managing their projects. You'll swap stories of success and discuss when and where projects have failed in the past.

You'll obtain insights from instructors who have decades of project management experience. Most importantly, you'll work together to use ESI's project management techniques to solve problems and analyze case studies. ESI teaches you project success through teamwork. More about the ESI classroom.

Why You Need Project Management Training

Project management training can teach you how to turn the impossible into the possible. With ESI's training you'll learn foolproof methods for managing tight deadlines, budgets and internal politics. Here's how.