Technical project management: from decision to production

Objectives and progression

Twelve modules cover project definition, effort and capacity, governance, risk, transition, costs, dependencies, and communication, with deeper shared-resource, uncertainty, coexistence, cost forecasting, release decisions, and operational autonomy. The context combines production support with responsibility for infrastructure projects. Original exercises use fictional financial services to practice decisions about windows, recovery, ownership transfer, and benefits. The path develops reasoning and decision documentation; it does not represent BNP Paribas internal policies or demonstrate hands-on production experience.

Audience: Technical project managers, APS teams, and infrastructure specialists with delivery responsibilities.

Prerequisites: Basic application, infrastructure, and support knowledge. Exercises provide required data and do not require real-system access.

476 estimated study minutes

• Translate needs into scope, acceptance evidence, and ownership.
• Separate effort, duration, capacity, budget, and forecast.
• Lead authorized decisions on change, recovery, and support transition.
• Compare dependencies, risk, and costs in options presented to owners.

Modules

1. Turn a request into an executable project
2. Plan effort, capacity, and forecasts
3. Lead decisions and communicate what matters
4. Address risk, obsolescence, and recovery
5. Prepare the change and hand over autonomy
6. Control costs and close the lifecycle
7. Dependencies and the critical path
8. Technical decisions and executive communication
9. Plan with shared resources and uncertainty
10. Forecast costs, coexistence, and benefits
11. Decide releases with demonstrated recovery
12. Demonstrate acceptance and operational autonomy

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References and version

DR Technical Project Manager 2026.4; independent professional curriculum

• What is project management? · 2026-09-29
• Schedule Assessment Guide · 2026-09-29
• Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems · 2026-09-29
• Evolving the SRE engagement model · 2026-09-29
• Canarying releases · 2026-09-29
• Forecasting · 2026-09-29
• Budgeting · 2026-09-29
• Usage optimization · 2026-09-29
• Licensing and SaaS · 2026-09-29
• Schedule Assessment Guide: resource leveling, status and risk · 2026-10-01
• Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide · 2026-10-01
• Budgeting capability · 2026-10-01
• Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management · 2026-10-01
• Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems · 2026-10-01
• Canarying releases · 2026-10-01
• Managing data synchronization and schema changes · 2026-10-01
• Deployment safety · 2026-10-01
• Evolving the SRE engagement model · 2026-10-01
• Implementing SLOs · 2026-10-01