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A Four-Phase Approach to IT Demand Management

Created by: Susan Moore
Making great ideas possible!

What Will I Learn?

• Define IT Demand Management and its purpose
• Define the lifecycle of a work item that comes through the demand management
• Identify the primary roles that support IT Demand Management and their responsibilities
• Learn a simple framework for demand management
• Describe the activities that happen in each phase of a standard IT Demand Management process
• Learn how to scale the IT Demand Management process for different types of projects that flow through the process
• Create your plan for implementing changes to the current Demand Management process

Requirements

• Students should have a good understanding of the types of work that are submitted to their technology or project departments..

Target audience

• Portfolio managers, Program managers, Project Managers and other project related roles responsible for defining, managing or reporting on work in-take.
• Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and other roles who are responsible for defining, managing or reporting on work in-take
• Innovation leaders who are accountable turning ideas into deliverable features
• IT or Business Managers who request technology work
• IT leaders who are inundated with projects that all seem to have the same priority
• IT managers and supervisors who lead teams that are accountable for the delivery of projects
• Please note that this is not a supply chain demand management course. Nor is it an agile backlog management course.