Project Management Certificate

Sessions: 8 Sessions
Class Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Overview: The St. Edward's University Professional Education Project Management Certificate program empowers and educates through multiple learning channels including direct team-based project experience, best practices discussion, tailoring processes, lecture, exercises, graphics, homework, provided and tailored templates, and frequent presentations complete with multiple feedback channels.

Each real-world, tailored homework assignment is designed to bring experienced professionals in any field through at least one full project life cycle. Reducing the forms, processes, and other low-value activities allow practitioners to focus on actionable efforts leading to immediate improved people and process performance.

This course will not only prepare you for the Project Management Professional (PMP)^® Certification exam, it will expose you to multiple project management methodologies, strategies, and best practices.

Prerequisite: Able to negotiate operational and project tradeoffs; able to motivate, lead, and provide process guidance for all levels of project and operations participants from executive sponsors to extended team members; able to manage multiple projects; move from passive reaction to project and operations events to proactive and agile management of issues and direct actions leading to more effective results.

Course Outline:

Product, Program, and Project
Management lifecycles and their integration
Tailoring your project lifecycle
4 "Hard Questions" to ask early
Estimates that stick and make sense
Building a realistic schedule
Negotiating with sponsors and teams
Reducing project documentation
Scope and Requirements Management
Managing change including processes
Priority setting and consensus
Agile & Integrated Project Management (A&IPM)^TM concepts and how to apply them for maximum results
Risk, Contingency, and Mitigations
How to gain and keep commitment
Budgets and procurement
Why, how, and when to tailor processes
Setting default corrective actions
Integrating project Risk, Quality, Performance, and Status communications
Proactive issue management

48 PDU/CDU/CEU/EdHours

Note: PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.