There are key activities that make the difference between success and failure, but they aren’t included in some widely used methodologies. Learn what these activities are and how to implement them in any project, regardless of approach.

Going over budget, late delivery, and not fulfilling the business requirements are key risks. The following activities and strategies are included in the course to mitigate them:

• Dress rehearsals. (This is the most effective risk management and cutover preparation activity a project can complete.)
• Project initiation. (Research has shown that poor project initiation is a major factor in 80 per cent of IT project failures.)
• Holistic security planning, configuration, and testing.
• Proof of concept activities.
• Hybrid methodologies.
• Dependency management across teams.
• Practical risk management.
• Cutover management.
• Runbook preparation.
• Managing Go/No Go Meetings.
• Post-go-live support.