Project planning
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Breaks work into schedules, milestones, and resource plans.
Course coverage
- Software Project Management
- Project Estimation and Scheduling Techniques (planned)
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Management and support
IT Project Manager
Plans and coordinates technology projects, keeping scope, schedule, budget, and people aligned from kickoff to delivery.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
61%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 8
- Published coverage
- 8
- Relevant courses
- 11
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Planning and control
4 capabilities
Scope management
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Controls scope changes and keeps delivery commitments realistic.
Course coverage
Risk management
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Identifies, tracks, and mitigates risks before they become issues.
Course coverage
- Technology Risk Management
- Risk Registers and Contingency Planning (planned)
Budgeting
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Estimates, tracks, and reports project costs.
Course coverage
- Project Budgeting
- Earned Value Management for IT Projects, Technology Total Cost of Ownership (planned)
02
Delivery leadership
4 capabilities
Agile methods
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Facilitates Scrum and Kanban practices, ceremonies, and continuous improvement.
Course coverage
Communication
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Keeps stakeholders informed with the right detail at the right cadence.
Course coverage
- Technical Stakeholder Communication
- Stakeholder Mapping and Influence (planned)
Team facilitation
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Removes blockers and enables teams to deliver without friction.
Course coverage
Vendor management
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Coordinates external suppliers, contracts, and deliverables.
Course coverage
- Technology Procurement
- Technology Vendor Management
- Software License Management, Software Licensing (planned)
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Kanban for Technology Teams
- Requirements Engineering
- Scrum Fundamentals
- Technology Procurement
- Technology Vendor Management
- Earned Value Management for IT Projects, Project Estimation and Scheduling Techniques, Risk Registers and Contingency Planning, Software License Management, Software Licensing, Stakeholder Mapping and Influence, Technology Total Cost of Ownership (planned)
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