Project Management Program

Fundamentals

Project managers need to identify requirements, define budgets and schedules, and then manage a project team to accomplish those requirements with limited resources, with a defined budget and in a defined schedule. Even the best organization managers need to learn different skills to successfully complete even small projects, and this class will give you those skills.

You Will Learn:

• Start and plan your project for success 
• Use the project activity plan to manage your project 
• Identify and manage the stakeholders and form the project team 
• Use data to know your project’s status, manage the project and report to stakeholders

So You Will Be Able To:

• Create a project charter, and an activity plan as the basis for managing your project 
• Create and understand a stakeholder registry as well as form your project team 
• Gather requirements from stakeholders using a variety of different methods
• Use the activity plan to track and report on your project’s progress 
• Use project metrics (data) to manage and report on your project 
• Identify and manage the risks that threaten your project’s success

Enroll in Fundamentals May 7-8, 2024

Develop Your “Toolkit” of Proven Project Management Tools

Successful project managers use a variety of tools to bring projects to a successful conclusion: documents, templates, processes, techniques and more, that the project manager can pull out of their “toolkit” and use on the project.

This class introduces project managers to many tools they can use in their projects and gives the project managers insights and practice in using those tools. Participants will learn about tools such as a project charter, requirements analysis, risk assessments, the essential earned value management and others to manage all aspects of a project.

You Will Learn

• Tools and how to use them for initiating, planning, executing and controlling a project
• Essential tools for planning and managing a project’s cost and schedule
• Tools that support the Project Management Institute’s framework of project management
• Tools for reporting to all stakeholders of the project

So You Will Be Able To

• Draw on a wide variety of tools that help a project manager succeed
• Be able to use many of those tools, understanding how they contribute to the organization and success of your project

Enroll in Tools May 21-22, 2024

Improve Your Ability to Manage a Project to a Successful Conclusion

The success of your project depends greatly on your ability as a project manager to create an environment that enables your project team to succeed.

This class gives new and experienced project managers insights and skills necessary to carry out the day-to-day management of a project, regardless of its size. The successful project manager knows how to build and motivate the project team, and then lead that team to be the most effective and productive it can be. They also understand that success is not guaranteed by good planning – effectively monitoring risks and controlling the project schedule, scope and cost are essential to delivering on the promises of our projects.

You Will Learn

• How to transform your project members into a highly effective team
• How to manage your team and stakeholders as the project progresses
• How to guide stakeholders through change control processes
• How to use data to monitor schedule and cost and forecast cost at completion

So You Will Be Able To

• Bring your project team together and create an effective team, rather than a group of individuals
• Assess the impact of requests for change and facilitate change control processes
• Utilize earned value management tools to analyze schedule and cost performance

Enroll in Execution, Monitoring and Controlling June 4-5, 2024

Add Advanced Skills and Techniques to Your Project Management Toolkit

Project managers encounter a wide variety of situations where our basic project management skills and expertise may not fully meet our project’s needs. In these situations, a successful project manager can draw from advanced project management techniques to succeed.

This class introduces project managers to a number of advanced project management techniques that they can draw from throughout their careers. Building on foundational project management skills, this course explores popular project management methods related to project prioritization, vendor management, Agile project management, continuous improvement processes like Lean and Six Sigma and facilitating organizational change. Project managers will gain confidence that they can draw from a more diverse set of skills to tailor their project management approach to meet complex project management challenges.

You Will Learn

• How to adapt project management skills to better manage and prioritize collections of projects within programs and portfolios
• How common Agile Project Management frameworks operate and how teams use them to improve collaboration and better manage evolving requirements
• How to use simple quality management tools from Lean and Six Sigma for process improvement
• How to evaluate professional service providers and vendors and manage these relationships
• How to lead organizational change to ensure your project’s benefits are fully realized

So You Will Be Able To

• Know whether your project will benefit from Agile Project Management techniques, and how to apply them
• Identify and engage others to bring about continuous process improvements in your organization
• Reduce vendor risks on your projects by selecting the right vendor and contract type to meet your needs
• Effectively navigate resistance to change, create desire for your projects, and reinforce organizational changes necessary to maximize project benefits
• Facilitate better project prioritization discussions using multi-criteria decision-making techniques

Enroll in Advanced Topics June 20-21, 2024