• Home
• Courses
• Training Options
• Certification
• Contact Us
• Employment

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

Systems Integration Project Management

Course Duration: 3 Days (8:30am-5:00pm)

Professional Development Units (PDU): 22.5

Continuous Professional Development Points (CPD): 10

You'll Learn How To:

• Plan, estimate, and organise system integration efforts
• Pick the right mix of technical approaches for your project
• Manage the implementation of complex system interfaces Avoid "island of effort" by establishing roles and ensuring communication on the SI project team
• Assess and respond to the risks inherent in integration projects

PMBOK® Knowledge Areas: Project Integration Management Project Cost Management Project Scope Management Project Risk Management Project Quality Management Project Procurement Management Project Time Management

Program Objectives:

Today's information technology project manager faces projects of increasing size, complexity, and risk. Your job as project manager is to make sure that all of the components come together and to see that the project is completed on time and within budget.

Yet the definition of "all the components" keeps getting broader and more complex. More and more IT projects depend on critical systems integration (SI) issues, including client/server development, open systems design, enterprise solution implementation, legacy systems maintenance, and multi-site deployment.

Now you can identify and explore the complex technical and business issues involved in integrating custom software, hardware solutions, telecommunications networks, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), business procedures and services, and support facilities.

Through a series of interactive exercises, you'll learn what it takes to be the project manager on a variety of SI projects. You'll develop an understanding and appreciation of the problems that can occur and explore ways to solve them. You'll gain an understanding of the critical relationship – and differences – between systems integrators and project managers in the real world.

If you face a future assignment as a systems integration project manager, this course will give you tools and techniques needed for survival.

Course Outline:

1. Systems Integration Systems integration (SI) and SI Projects Typical SI projects Why is SI necessary?
2. Issues and Challenges of SI Complex systems requirements Complex communications channels Legacy vs. COTS
3. Overall SI Approach Fundamental patterns of SI SI projects and Development Models Five technical activities of an SI project Organising for SI projects
4. Initiating and Planning SI Projects Stakeholder assessment SI project requirements Process mapping Product vs. task-oriented WBS
5. Analysis and Design for SI Managing subproject analysis Managing subproject design Key SI questions during analysis and design
6. Systems Development Development or acquisition of components? Achieving control of interfaces Configuration management
7. Systems Integration and Testing Testing concerns for SI Requirements and design-based testing Managing the SI test environment and activity
8. SI Implementation Single and multi-site implementation Options for the predictable crisis
9. Measurement and Control Adapting basic techniques for SI projects Calculating overall SI project status
10. Procurement Issues Vendor and customer relationship management COTS procurement issues Contract administration
11. Project Closeout Issues for project closeout The project closeout plan

Course Schedule and Fees

Prices below are indicative of Public Courses Only. Discounts apply for groups and on site training. Please call ESI to discuss.