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A two-course certification program that gives you the tools and techniques for consistent project success and the credibility of a globally recognized PM credential.

2-course Certification

How It Works: One of our expert project managers personally guides you through this hands-on, 2-course program where you learn foundation through advanced project skills. You’ll actually practice all the tools and techniques in project case studies and simulations with personal coaching. Your instructor gives you written feedback on all your work, role plays meetings and presentations with you and answers all your questions directly and privately by phone/email. Your instructor will call you to review your progress and discuss applying what you’re learning to your projects at work... All at a pace you set with no time limit.

Personal 1-to-1 Instruction at Your Pace & Schedule

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* Level: Professional

* Cost : $1,990

* University Credits: 3

* Hours of work: 90

* PDUs: 90

101 Essentials of PM

Each module has reading, lecture and a case study assignment

1. Project Scope - Techniques for meeting with the stakeholders to define the scope

2. Requirements - Techniques for meeting with stakeholders to gather requirements and decompose the scope

3.. Project charter - Identify & present major deliverables, risks, resource requirements in live role-play meeting

4. Work Breakdown - decompose the scope and deliverables into individual assignments for your team

5. Build Dynamic Schedules - in MS Project® that you update in 10 minutes a week & easily model alternatives

6. Estimate work and duration - Techniques for estimating with your team and making assignments

7. Optimize Your Schedule - Use the critical path to finish as early as possible

8. Communications & Conflict - learn to handle conflict between your team members

9. Tracking & Status - cope with the problems that affect your project and make a live status report

103 Advanced PM Skills

1. Project Initiation: Learn to assess the stakeholders and their hot button issues.

2. Scope planning: Learn advanced techniques for handling multiple stakeholders

3. Charter: Develop and present change control processes, and project authority structures. Face a hostile management group in your presentation role-play.

4. Assignments & Estimating: Learn advanced techniques for estimating including analogous and parametric estimates.

5. Risks: Assess risks that threaten the project, analyze probability and impact to determine expected value and develop appropriate risk responses.

6. Microsoft Project: Calculate resource capacity, work and cost in the software to develop a dynamic project schedule.

7 Schedule Optimization: Learn techniques to finish early

8. Modeling Tradeoffs: Develop tradeoffs between scope, duration, cost and risk for stakeholders to consider. Present your plan in a live meeting and get approval.

9. Teams: Techniques for handling conflict between team members and develop a conflict resolution strategy.

10. Status Reports, Variances & Tracking: Variance and earned value analysis for handling over-runs, model impact of change requests for the sponsor.

Price:$1,990