In todays highly competitive and fast-paced server environment, the rapid creation and delivery of high quality server cluster is critical to business survival. Organisations are having to focus their energies on delivering linux server products and services of greater complexity and requiring a greater diversity of linux system administration skills. A further challenge is that this must be done with leaner organisations and tighter budgets while maintaining the highest quality linus & freebsd administration standards. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of Information Technology yet, IT projects are notorious for being delivered late and over budget. Success or failure of an IT project depends on people and not on tools or technology. IT projects are led and delivered by people and not technology. Although technology can help, it is leadership and management of the people involved that makes all the difference.

To achieve success, IT and linux & freebsd administrators must understand the fundamental building blocks of linux server management. This course focuses on the balance between proven server management tools and techniques for managing servers with the reality of the people side. Through a combination of presentations, group workshops and case studies, participants will be equipped with the essentials of managing network infrastructure from the beginning to the end, involving planning, organising, directing, leading and controlling project teams and stakeholders.

This will substantially expand your server administration abilities in this critical discipline and equip you with added confidence in your linux abilities. As a direct result of participation, projects for which you are responsible in the future will be managed more efficiently and effectively.

This highly popular course introduces the delegate to Project Management tools, techniques and processes using a generic project process: Objective Directed Project Management (ODPM).

This expands the delegates repertoire of practical Project Management tools and techniques by introducing generic processes and methodologies to address the strategic, business and operational aspects of IT projects. This course further stresses that tools and techniques without a systematic process (method) frustrates the project participants and leads to an emphasis on only certain facets of project planning.

This course provides the delegate with a complete generic project planning process and methodology that links the tools and techniques in a systematic manner. A unique aspect of this course is that it focuses on the early stages of a project and introduces the delegate to the importance of the Project Initiation Workshop as a planning technique. ODPM is a unique and successful approach to project planning developed in South Africa and used by many organisations
world-wide.

The course embraces the standards and best practices as contained in the PMI® PMBOK Guide.

Each delegate is provided with substantial notes, which includes a complete project management process and templates.