Inovacent Solutions, LLC - Workshops - Professional Skills for IT Advancement

›Professional Skills for IT Advancement

To survive in this business as an IT professional, you need to re-assess your skills and expand your capabilities beyond just technical knowledge and expertise. This workshop helps focus on assessing your business strengths, expanding your capabilities and communication skills to better serve the needs of the business, and assuring that all of this fits into your career development life cycle. You’ll be exposed to an array of ideas, techniques, and tools that you can incorporate immediately. The combination of soft skills and practical project skills makes this an extremely effective tune-up for the IT professional looking to advance. This 2-day workshop is for those involved in defining, leading, or developing systems development projects including developers, programmers, software engineers, team leaders, analysts, designers, consultants, and database administrators.

Course Objectives

Invest in yourself and develop the leader within you
Increase your value as an IT professional by understanding the business
Provide a good estimate and communicate with the business
Survive in the software business; develop skills for career advancement
Tackle problems with creative solutions; stay on the competitive edge
Become a valuable team member and change agent
Recognize good and bad requirements
Identify and mitigate development risks
Know what managers expect
Translate technical language into business terms

Topics

Maintaining a Technical Edge—The Keys to Professional Success
Becoming a Business Partner
Communicating with Ease
Learning to Validate Requirements
Thinking Beyond Implementation (aka Change Management)
Solving Problems Creatively
Estimating Time and Cost
Software Risk Management
Taking the Next Step into Leadership

Contact our office for course schedules, pricing, and availability. Remember, Inovacent Solutions can prepare shorter lectures, combine workshop sessions, or create custom training solutions to meet you needs in all aspects of project management, SDLC methodologies, and best practices.