PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES
Agile Project Management
This course is designed for Program managers, project managers, and team members interested in applying the Scrum project management approach within their organizations.
Agile Project Management Using Scrum provides context for what agile project management is, its benefits, and how it differs from traditional project management. It also introduces roles, processes, and techniques to overcome the challenges of working on agile projects.
Assessing Project Performance with Earned Value
This course will introduce you to the concepts of Performance Measurement using Earned Value Systems.
Earned Value Management is a technique used to quantitatively assess the real progress of a project by understanding the work that was completed, the time taken to complete it, and the actual costs or effort to complete the work. You will learn the fundamental tools and techniques for everyday efforts of measuring project performance and how to convey this information to management and stakeholders.
Developing A Project Management Office
To compete in the current challenging economic environment, successful organizations are embracing project management as part of their overall strategy to achieve business results.
Learn how a properly organized and managed Project Management Office can help your organization to achieve business success.
Identifying, Analyzing, and Managing Project Risk
Risk cannot be avoided. So, the best way to manage an unavoidable situation is to plan for and identify the potential obstacles and possible solutions.
This class revolves around the advanced practices for identifying, communicating, managing, and controlling project risks. This class is very interactive and includes discussions, hands-on exercises, scenarios, and case studies.
Introduction to Change Management
Traditionally, change management was considered a senior executive job function.
Today, differing roles often have to balance the reality of implementing changes. Employees who have an understanding of the dynamics of change are better equipped to analyze the factors at play in their own particular circumstances and to adopt practical strategies to deal with resistance and the effects of change on their projects and their stakeholders. This course will help you assess change and provide you with strategies for managing the change.
Practical Time Management
It doesn't matter if you use a paper notebook or the fanciest smartphone; mastering your use of time will help you achieve more and be more productive.
Everyone has the power to take control of their time. In this class, you will learn the basic principles of time management and discover the personal style that works best for you. You will learn how to set priorities, identify your "time traps," control your use of time, discuss and understand the Pareto principle, develop an overall time management plan, and make every minute count by using these practical planning aids. This class also briefly covers tips and techniques for effectively managing email, the Internet, the telephone, personal interactions, and paperwork to use time productively.
Project Cost Estimation & Management
This course provides tools necessary to develop reliable software project cost estimates by assessing necessary project resources, applying one or more cost estimating methods, and adjusting the estimates based on resource availability and project risk.
Students learn a process for evaluating the quality of cost estimates prepared by others.
Project Management Fundamentals
Through the use of a simulated case study, you learn how to successfully plan, manage, and deliver projects using best practices in a 5-step process.
You also learn how to implement project management processes, develop leadership skills, and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, you have access to templates and checklists for use back at the workplace. This course is compliant with the Project Management Institute's® (PMI's®) current Project Management Body of Knowledge® (PMBOK®).
Understanding Project Scheduling
This course is designed for project managers, project team leaders, program managers, project coordinators, and all professionals in a project support or management role who want to create and manage schedules more effectively
This course uses hands-on exercises, templates, discussion, and case studies to introduce and reinforce scheduling concepts and techniques. Project management software is not utilized as a part of the learning curriculum for this class.