Project Management Certificate Course Descriptions

Develop skills and learn techniques to discover and translate customer needs into project requirements for all types of projects including systems development.

Develop documentation techniques concisely and unambiguously. Engage in exercises that reinforce and encourage practice of concepts and techniques.

Estimating and Scheduling Projects
2 days - 14 PDUs / 1.4 CEUs

Increase project success and meet deadlines when you learn how to accurately estimate and schedule. Learn important techniques for developing timelines and managing deadlines. Learn important concepts and terminology to better utilize automated tools such as Microsoft® Project.

Facilitation Skills Workshop
2 days - 14 PDUs / 1.4 CEUs

Develop skills that will help you control a session and achieve its objectives. Gain a structured approach to planning, managing, and following-up facilitated sessions.

Learn and practice several facilitation techniques, processes and guidelines as well as guidance for why, when and how to use them. Develop skills for effective management of people dynamics.

Project Management Fundamentals
3 days - 21 PDUs / 2.1 CEUs

Learn methods to effectively initiate, plan, control and report project status. Learn how to deal effectively with varied expectations of business and technical partners, management and staff.

Acquire tools for handling all aspects of the project life cycle, regardless of its size. Learn a structured approach to ensure a well-planned project with managed scope.

Risk Management
1 day - 7 PDUs / 0.7 CEUs

Learn tried and accepted techniques for identifying and managing risk. Gain practical strategies that help you assess and control emerging risk and even mitigate unknown risk.

This course teaches you how to ask questions and gather supporting data that enables you to easily understand business issues and identify improvement areas.

To avoid “jumping to solutions,” this course presents approaches that encourage critical thinking and ways to understand root causes of problems.

This course also helps to teach methods for gaining acceptance from business colleagues through simple and effective documentation techniques.

Develop skills and learn techniques to translate customer needs into project requirements. It provides a framework for identifying business problems, and linking requirements to business objectives in order to solve business problems and set project scope. The approach taken is applicable to all types of requirements gathering efforts, including systems development projects. Many practical and engaging exercises and role playing help walk people through the concepts presented, and afford ample practice with the techniques learned.

Prepares project managers for successful interactions with senior management and other various project stakeholders.

Microsoft® Project for Project Managers
2 days - 14 PDUs / 1.4 CEUs

Participate in extensive hands on practical MS Project 2000 or 2002 exercises designed to help you efficiently plan, manage, control and share project information across your organization.

PMP® Certification Preparation
3 days - 21 PDUs / 2.1 CEUs

Prepare for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) examination through study of a carefully kept up to date framework of knowledge outlined by the Project Management Institute’s (PMBOK® Guide.)

Small class size and expert instructors will teach you test-taking tips and strategies. Review materials, engage in small group exercises, to reinforce the material, and take sample tests.