Master Information Systems (IS): understand, scope, and manage your IT projects
Build a clear picture of your organization's IS to communicate effectively with IT, scope your requirements, and manage your IS projects with confidence.
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Learn how information systems actually work, identify the right stakeholders (IT department, business owner, technical owner, CISO), and formulate clear requirements that technical teams can act on. This training gives you the essential reference points to scope, secure, and manage an IS project without being a developer.
You'll leave with a concrete method for writing a requirements statement, factoring in security and compliance from the outset, and building a management plan tailored to an IS project, from scoping through to go-live.
Learning objectives
By the end of this training, you will be able to:
- ✅ Understand the components and architecture of an information system
- ✅ Identify the roles and responsibilities of IS stakeholders (IT department, business/technical owner, CISO)
- ✅ Write a clear requirements statement and functional specifications
- ✅ Factor security, data, and compliance (GDPR) into an IS project
- ✅ Manage an IS project day to day: milestones, testing, change management
- ✅ Communicate effectively with technical teams without being a developer yourself
Trainers
Our trainers are consultants and former IS project leaders with 10–15 years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT governance, and project management on both the business and technical sides. They combine technical fluency with accessible teaching for a concrete, immediately applicable learning experience for non-developer profiles.
Practical information
- Duration: 14 h (2 days)
- Price: €1250 excl. VAT – VAT not applicable, art. 261-4-4° a of the French CGI
- Funding: Funding may be available (companies, OPCO, CPF where applicable)
- Target audience: Project managers, product owners, managers, consultants, and anyone who needs to communicate with IT or manage an IS project without being a developer.
- Prerequisites: No technical prerequisites. Prior project management experience is a plus.
Detailed program
Day 1 – Understanding the information system and its architecture
1. What is an information system?
- Definition and components: data, processes, applications, infrastructure, stakeholders
- Difference between an information system and an IT system
Learning objective: Understand the scope and stakes of an IS within an organization.
Workshop: Collective mapping of your organization's IS.
2. IS architecture and mapping
- Enterprise architecture diagrams, application mapping
- Interoperability, APIs, data flows between systems
Learning objective: Read and understand a simple application map.
Workshop: Guided analysis of a typical architecture diagram.
3. IS governance and stakeholders
- Roles: IT department, business owner, technical owner, CISO, IT product owner
- How responsibilities are split across an IS project
Learning objective: Identify the right stakeholders depending on the project's needs.
Workshop: Role-play — "Who does what in an IS project?"
Day 2 – Scoping and managing an IS project
4. Scoping an IS project
- Requirements statement, functional specifications
- Functional vs. technical specifications
Learning objective: Write a clear requirements statement that IT can act on.
Workshop: Drafting a requirements statement from a fictional case.
5. Security, data, and compliance
- IS security principles, IS risk management
- GDPR and data protection in an IS project
Learning objective: Factor security and compliance in from the scoping stage.
Workshop: Security/GDPR checklist applied to a fictional project.
6. Managing an IS project day to day
- IS project methodology (V-model, Agile), milestones, testing
- Change management and user adoption
Learning objective: Build a management plan tailored to an IS project.
Workshop: Building a test plan and a change management plan.
Participant reviews
Finally an IS training that speaks to project managers, not just developers. Very concrete.
I finally understand how to talk to our IT department without jargon. Very useful day to day.
Good training, the requirements-statement workshop is especially useful.
Qualiopi-certified training
Our organization is Qualiopi certified… public or pooled funding (OPCO, CPF, etc.).
Upcoming sessions
No upcoming sessions at the moment.
Summary
Master Information Systems (IS): understand, scope, and manage your IT projects
💰 Price: €1250 excl. VAT
(VAT not applicable, art. 261-4-4° a of the French CGI)
🕒 Duration: 14h00 (2 days)
(typical schedule: 9am – 12pm / 1:30pm – 4:30pm)
📍 Format:
On-site or remote (available in English)
🎯 Target audience:
Project managers, product owners, managers, consultants, anyone communicating with IT.
💡 Funding available:
Company, OPCO, CPF where applicable (Qualiopi certification)
✅ Prerequisites: No technical prerequisites. Prior project management experience is a plus.
♿ Accessibility:
Training accessible to people with disabilities (contact us to adapt the format and learning arrangements)