Overview
Project Management for IT professionals includes planning, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling, and reporting on information system development.
History
Wendy Lee, manager of college services at Mountain View Colleges wants a new information system that will improve efficiency and costume service at the three college bookstores.
Description of the Process
Project planning, Gantt Charts, PERT/CPM Charts, Microsoft Project and Open Workbench software, project monitoring, and risk management techniques.
Important terms and Concepts
What Does Project Manager Do?

Whether a project involves a new office building or an information system, good leadership is essential. In systems project, the project manager, or project leader, usually is a senior systems analyst or an IT department manager if the project is large.
What is a Gantt chart?
A Gantt chart was design that could show planned and actual progress on a project. A Gantt Chart is horizontal bar chart that represents a set of tasks.
What is a PERT/CPM Chart?
The Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) is a bottom-up technique, because it analyzes a large, complex project as a series of individual tasks. At approximately the same time, the CPM (Critical Path Method) meet similar project management needs. The distinction between the two methods has disappeared over time, and today the technique is called either PERT, CPM, or PERT/CPM.
Maintaining a Schedule
A project schedule can be challenging, and most projects run into at least some problems or delays. By monitoring and controlling the work, the project manager tries to anticipate problems, avoid them or minimize their impact, identify potential solutions, and select the best way to solve the problem.
Project Status Meetings
Project managers schedule regular meetings to update status, issues, problems and opportunities. Although