[Music] today we're talking about how to become an IT project manager an IT meeting information technology and when someone asked me that I love it because I know they're intentional but it really depends on how to get there for their career path so let's take a look at some options it depends on if someone starts in IT they could be a techie or they could be some other role in IT already so they have an interest in the project management piece they could also be non IT meaning they could be in a different business unit
maybe like operations marketing or even finance and they could be a project manager for those type of projects or they could be some other role so again they have an interest in becoming a project manager for the IT part of the project so some people ask well what about agile and scrum and how does that fit in and it really depends on your organization and it really depends on the type of projects you work on not every project is managed using the agile or scrum methodology so you may not need it so let's look at
some job description and let's look at some common skills and qualifications that companies look for so the Job Description is the project manager oversees the process of planning and executing and delegating responsibilities around the organization's IT pursuits and goals so some of the job skills they look for is someone with technical management and a technical understanding they want to make sure that project manager has an understanding of how maybe the hardware or the software the infrastructure may be networking security all fit together they also want to make sure that the person can analyze information because
in IT there's a lot of data metrics that go so they have to be able to take that information and glean insights for the project they also need to be good at informing others because typically on IT projects there are different types of things again people working on the infrastructure the software the hardware that have to integrate and communicate also staffing the roles on the project problem-solving things that come up data center management so typically the technology is in a data somewhere it could be within the company or it could be somewhere outsourced by a
third-party vendor and then also it's very important to understand advanced project management tools for resource planning and advanced scheduling feature something like a project manager comm so here are when you're looking at the career path how to get there so you want to look at the skills experience and training that you have already and you want to compare that to an IT project manager and the specific type of projects you're interested in working in so look at the specific skills experience and training that you need or is required and with that you find the gaps
and that's what you use to build your custom plan for you so let's talk about some of the training so with that you will need project management training but there's also a specific IT training dealing with technology specific understanding how to manage projects around infrastructure hardware software may be again networks and now security is so important but some people ask about i ITIL and ITSM so what does that stand for so ITIL is information technology infrastructure library it's not project management what it is is best practices used to develop and execute IT Service Management for
the company and so ITSM is again information technology services management and it's how you deliver in to n IT services within the company so hopefully that helps to delineate what some of the terms mean understand what the description of the role is and some of the requirements for that so if you need a tool that helped you become an IT project manager then sign up for our software now at projectmanager.com
