IS/IT Project Manager (IPM)
Definition
Professional who plans, manages and closes ICT projects using project management methodologies in order to achieve the agreed commitments regarding quality, schedule and costs
Competences developed
- Ability to plan and manage projects in the ICT environment
- Efficient and high-standard communication (written and spoken) within a professional environment
- Ability to innovate and generate new ideas
- Ability to evaluate technological solutions and develop project proposals based on the available resources, the possible alternatives and the circumstances of the environment
- Ability to perform work according to the code of ethics and the legal aspects of the ICT environment
- Leadership and teamwork ability
- Ability to update his/her professional skills to adapt to technological innovations and new ICT environments
- Ability to identify the characteristics of different types of organisations and the role of ICT in the organisation
- Ability to abstract a problem to the appropriate level in order to analyse and resolve it by using suitable skills and knowledge
Activities performed
- Managed projects in the ICT environment
- Drew up project charters as a product of the preliminary tasks
- Applied suitable methods to define and manage the scope, schedule, costs, risk, integration, organisation and communication of a project
- Drew up the stakeholder maps, organisational charts, as well as role and responsibility matrixes of a project from the human resources perspective of project management
- Drew up project plans for the execution of projects
- Managed the execution of the planned projects
- Drew up reports of project progress to supervise the execution, especially in terms of controlling changes which affect the defined quality, costs or schedule
- Drew up evaluations and project or project stage closure documents
- Used the common project management tools
- Identified and applied the most suitable methodology or adaptation of a methodology for each project