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Project Management Advanced 8-Day Certificate Program

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Overview: Executives and other leaders need fast, accurate, and efficient project results. No one has time for thick project methodologies that bog down both your people and those your staff serves. Applying best practices from traditional, agile, and real-world projects using readily available productivity tools can reduce your project costs over 25%. Your people need techniques to reduce their repetitive conversations and status processes that do little to provide senior managers with summary data supporting actionable recommendations.
This course concentrates on real world, in-use best practices. It covers generally accepted principles of multiple professional associations and bodies of knowledge. You will be exposed to multiple project management methodologies, strategies, best practices, instructors, and delivery methods including virtual. Familiarity with these state-of-the-art distributed learning individual and team-based online collaborative environments are mandatory skills for today’s project managers, operations managers, and staff at all levels.
 
Who Should Attend:
 This program is designed for experienced professionals eager to broaden their knowledge base and quickly develop leadership skills to implement your learned Best Practices promptly.
 
  • Those interested in PMP® or CAPM® Certification
  • Project Managers, Project Leads, Project Coordinators, Project Assistants
  • Technical & other Subject Matter Experts
  • Program Managers, Portfolio Managers
  • Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Staff Analysts
  • External and Internal Consultants
  • Risk Managers, Operations Risk Professionals
  • Not those with current PMP® as this course has high PMP® Prep content
  • Those who wish to quickly improve their personal & organization project processes
  • Operations Managers, Line Managers, Executives, Senior Staff, Directors, VPs
  • Leaders at all levels
  • Team Members, Team Leads
  • Those who manage Project Managers, Program Managers, or Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Those with internal or external Customer contact
  • Process Improvement, Compliance, Audit, and Staff, Thought Leaders, Transformation & Change Champions, Change Managers
 
Prerequisites:
2 years of professional experience in commercial, government, or nonprofit organizations or our Project Management Foundation course or similar.
 
Recommended to further enhance your project management skills is our 2-day Managing Projects with Microsoft Project course. This is a course that both introduces best practices for managing projects and using any scheduling software. When bundled together with this Project Management Certificate Program - Day Track (8 days of training) you will have rounded out your project management training. Our MS Project course teaches you how to use any client-based or online scheduling tool by concentrating on the best practices of leveraging cloud or client schedulers including dynamic scheduling and resource allocation.
 
The Project Management Certificate Program - Day Track empowers and educates through multiple learning channels including direct team-based project experience, best practices discussion, tailoring processes, lecture, exercises, graphics, homework as components of a full project, provided and tailored templates, and frequent presentations complete with multiple feedback channels. You come away with the savvy, capability, and tools to manage real projects in real organizations.

You can do consecutive days of training, or break it up with customized delivery options! Choose our location, your site, or virtual blended learning.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING USING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING.
AGILE & INTEGRATED™, ADAPTABLE, REAL-WORLD BEST PRACTICES FOR EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS.

Outline

Week 1: Build a strong foundation of fundamental through advanced skills, by intensive student immersion in Project Management techniques, background, and related skills. See detailed outline inProject Management Advanced course.
  • The Project Management Framework
  • PMI® Knowledge Areas: Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholder Management
  • PMI® Process Groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing
  • PMI® 47 Processes that are the intersection and main content of the above
  • Application and Exam sample exams in class, preparation, plans, strategies, and tips and tricks
  • 90-day license for PMP® or CAPM® Exam Simulators (expires 90-days after end of course).
Week 2 (3 days): Apply what you have learned - a blend of real-world, Agile & Integrated™ Best Practices and scheduling tool use. See detailed outline in Project Management Best Practices course.
  • Product, Program, Project, Portfolio, PMO (Project Management Office) Concepts
  • Management lifecycles and their integration
  • Tailoring your project lifecycle
  • 4 "Hard Questions" to ask early
  • Estimates that stick and make sense
  • Building a realistic schedule
  • During Best Practices sessions, your team will develop, tailor, and update your Project Charter, Plan, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Schedule, Risk - Communication - and Stakeholder Registers, Project Logs: Actions, Issues, Decisions, Glossary, Quality Plan, and Requirements
  • Negotiating with sponsors and teams
  • Reducing project documentation
  • Scope and Requirements Management
  • Managing change, including processes
  • Priority setting and consensus
  • Agile & Integrated Project Management (A&IPM™) concepts and how to apply them for maximum results
  • Risk, Contingency, and Mitigations
  • How to gain and keep commitment
  • Why, how, and when to tailor processes
  • Setting default corrective actions
  • Integrating project Risk, Quality, Performance, and Status communications
  • Proactive issue management.

Speaker/s

Courses & Instructors: Courses are delivered in Austin, at your site world-wide, or virtually by Data Analysis & Results, Inc. (DA&R) experienced professionals with 20+ years of experience in many industries. May include multiple and virtual live instructors for maximum networking, experience, and points of view. Agile & Integrated (A&I) courses are written by DA&R consultants ensuring attendees a wealth of best practices and real-world experience.

Special Offer

10% discount for government employess, Non-Profit Employees, and Alumni.
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Consultants using their "Agile & Integrated" Approach to Project Management, Business Analysis, Project and Organization Turnarounds, PMO formation, Data Analysis, and other process improvement efforts. Custom and off the shelf courses, on-site or off-site, geared to help your staff perform better on specific deliverables. Actionable, Real-World Best Practices.

Our Passions and Experience are in Three Areas:

1.) Project (or Program) Management Consulting of any size project or operations area, favorites include critical project start-up, process improvement, and troubled project recovery. 

Clients call when they want both project management and a lot of process improvement in their processes in a short time. They also call when they are overloaded and need an experienced professional or a small team to concentrate on a particular project. 

2.) Training in PM, Business Analysis, and Leadership around the skills needed to achieve best practices in their processes and operations. 

Clients call when they don’t know exactly what they want or how to achieve their goals, but they feel process improvement will help. We help them crystallize their goals and the types of change they are ready for, customize training (or they attend open enrollment), and do their follow-through so they get lasting results. ...
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