Curriculum

This course addresses the core principles, concepts, techniques, and practices that are essential to aligning project work with organizational value creation. It presents an objective and intuitive approach to leveraging agile principles and practices in project management and to blending them with traditional/waterfall techniques to reap the best of both spheres. The approach is also attuned and applicable to projects whose team members and managers/executives have varying degrees of geographical dispersion: from full colocation to completely remote team members across several time zones. The overarching direction and focus of the course is on enabling organizations to realize mission- and vision-critical goals and objectives by performing project work in a manner that enhances value creation, reduces chaos, raises productivity, and fosters innovation and creativity.

Accrediting Association

Students who complete this course will earn 36 PDUs

• Ways/Working 15 PDUs
• PowerSkills 9 PDUs
• Business 12 PDUs

New projects require project managers to estimate costs, make schedules, source requirements, and set other parameters without the benefit of a full picture. After this initial planning stage, project managers must give progress reports to upper management, translating team performance into financial terms. This course will guide the project practitioner through the best practices for approaching these key concerns.

Accrediting Association

Students who complete this course will earn 16 PDUs

• Strategy 12 PDUs
• Technology 4 PDUs

Project managers must assess how viable—and how expensive—saving troubled projects will be. The goal of this seminar is to familiarize students with strategies for approaching troubled or failed projects. Using standard PMI project management processes and a trove of real-world case studies, students will identify and implement techniques to assess, avoid, correct, and manage setbacks.

Accrediting Association

Students who complete this course will earn 16 PDUs

• Technology 16 PDUs

To remain successful, project leaders must demonstrate the skills to plan and execute their projects amidst environmental pressures and shifting organizational cultures and climates. This course, designed for experienced project and program managers, teaches you to apply leadership principles that get results that serve your organization’s broader goals. 

Achieving business results in a global project environment requires skills that go beyond the traditional management of deliverables, budgets, and resources. The successful project leaders of today plan and execute across organizational cultures, climates, and environments. This course is designed for the experienced project manager who conveys project results to varied stakeholders with a focus on applying leadership principles to achieve project results that align with organizational goals.

Accrediting Association

Students who complete this course will earn 16 PDUs

• Leadership 16 PDUs

Exceeding customer expectations has become a mandate of project management, but most customers cannot articulate their expectations. How do project managers deliver exceptional outcomes without a clear understanding of what customers want or need? This course offers a fresh, pragmatic approach to understanding a project from the customer’s perspective, creatively exploring potential ideas and solutions, and rapidly producing early prototypes to pinpoint customer needs.

Accrediting Association

Students who complete this course will earn 16 PDUs

• Leadership 4 PDUs
• Strategy 4 PDUs
• Technology 8 PDUs