PrintProject Management Program Modules
Module 1 – Project Management Fundamentals
2 days – 14 PDU
This course will teach you how to manage effectively all phases of a project. You will learn the project management framework of initiation, planning, execution, control, and formal closing, and discover what it takes to ensure project success. In this skills-building module, you’ll focus on practical tools and techniques as you spend 75% of the course working on a project—from initiation to close. (18 hours of blended study)
This is the prerequiste for all other modules in the program.
Module 2 – Project Leadership and Communication
3 days – 21 PDU
Managing a successful project involves more than schedules, templates and paperwork—it requires the application of strong interpersonal management skills to work effectively with people in a variety of roles. The skills you’ll learn in this course will enable you to apply effective leadership strategies, improve your interpersonal communication, become more influential, help guide your staff through change, deal with conflict and practice ethical principles during the entire project management process. With the aid of the hands-on case study exercises, you’ll learn to create a motivating team atmosphere and ultimately manage your project successfully. (21 hours of study)
Prerequisite: Module 1 – Project Management Fundamentals
Module 3 – Scheduling and Cost Control
4 days – 28 PDU
Learn the skills you need to effectively establish and manage a realistic schedule and detailed budget. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll learn to develop a work breakdown schedule, grasp diagramming techniques, identify task relationships, determine the critical path, employ estimating techniques, and analyze resource utilization. Once the project schedule is complete, you’ll create a budget that includes all direct and indirect costs associated with the project. Learn the importance of base lining project schedules and budgets to make reporting and tracking progress easier. Understand how to use earned value analysis and other reporting techniques to ensure your project progress is clearly identified and communicated to stakeholders. Create schedule and cost management plans, and control changes through an integrated change management process. You’ll learn to use a variety of tools that will ensure that your project is delivered on time and within budget. (28 hours of study)
Prerequisite: Module 1 – Project Management Fundamentals
Module 4 – Risk Management
3 days – 21 PDU
Why be reactive, when you can be proactive? If you are tired of having to pull your team off critical path activities to deal with the crisis of the day, effective risk management is the solution. Risk management, as an integrated component of successful project management, allows you to understand the uncertainty that is part of all project work and plan how to manage effectively that uncertainty. Go from leading your team through crisis after crisis, to effectively planning so you and your team can easily handle any surprise that might arise. Without risk management, projects are subject to surprising, sometimes devastating, events. (21 hours of study)
Prerequisite: Module 1 – Project Management Fundamentals
Module 5 – Contract Management Principles and Practices
3 days – 21 PDU
This course will teach you how to manage effectively all aspects of project procurement. You'll discover the terms, techniques and tools of how to convert project needs into outsourced goods and services. In this skills-building course, you will spend 70% of class time working on contracting activities from requirements documentation through to contract closure. Exercises include the development of a procurement strategy, contract selection, revising and updating Statements of Work, risk management, negotiated claims settlement and collection of lessons learned. (21 hours of study)
Prerequisite: Module 1 – Project Management Fundamentals
Module 6 – Quality and Project Management
3 days – 21 PDU
In this course, you will learn how to develop or improve the quality programs at your workplace. You will use systems thinking to plan quality into your project, prioritize requirements to meet customers’ quality needs, select quality assurance and quality control activities that are tailor-fit to your project, and use quality management processes, tools, and metrics to increase the likelihood of project success. You will use a Quality Management Plan to document and structure a thoughtful approach to project quality management. You will gain insight into applying quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control to real-world projects. (21 hours of study)
Prerequisite: Module 1 – Project Management Fundamentals