Project Management Certificate May 13, 2013

Date: Starts May 13: 16 evenings over 8 weeks (Mon/Wed)
Class Time: 6:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: St. Edward's University Professional Education
Register at: http://www.pec.stedwards.edu/courseRegistration.asp?cID=285
48 PDU/CDU/CEU/EdHours

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING USING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING. ADAPTABLE, REAL-WORLD BEST PRACTICES FOR EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS.

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. For those interested it will also prepare you for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) ® Certification exam. It will expose you to multiple project management methodologies, strategies, and best practices.
The Project Management Certificate program 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.
Each real-world, tailored homework assignment is designed to bring experienced professionals in any field through at least one full project life cycle. Reducing the forms, processes, and other low-value activities allow practitioners to focus on actionable efforts leading to immediate improved people and process performance.
Benefits and Strategic Topics:
• Know and persuade others to execute best practice processes and communicate deeply
• Know and use the Agile & Integrated™ PMPower™ set of leveraging project best practices
• Dozens of best practice tips including efficient web, face to face, and document use
• Obtain at least 25% cost & time advantage over projects without project management
• For PMP®, PgMP®, and other certificate holders, PDU, CDU, or CEU from this course
• Know how, how much, and what to study to pass the PMP® or CAPM® exam
• PMBOK® Guide, PMP® Study Guide Book, electronic exam simulator e-Sim, and more exam help
• Negotiate operational and project tradeoffs in all five project dimensions
• Learn how to effectively balance your needed biases toward action and planning
• Know how to motivate, lead, and guide all levels of team members to build consensus
• Identify, manage, and communicate deeply with all your various stakeholders
• Identify, manage, track, and communicate your project scope and requirements
• Identify and manage Risks, Contingency, Mitigations, Change, Issues, and Commitments
• Move from reactive to proactive and agile management of deliverables, issues, people, budgets, procurement, supply chain, process improvement, and status
• Know how to negotiate and build a schedule in as much detail as benefits your project
• You influence the rest by your participation!
• Templates you build & tailor: Complete Project Plan with all needed supporting documents. Project Charter, Scope Statement, Project Plan (5 Management Plans), Schedule, Risk Register, Status Report, Action – Issue – Decision Logs, Change Request, Communication Matrix (Stakeholders), RAP (RACI) Chart, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Quality Plan and Steps, others as requested for your projects.
• Project, Process, or Document review by senior DA&R™ consultant – back on the job!

Who Should Attend: Anyone who participates in projects and wants increased project management knowledge and capability, anyone who desires to improve their performance on projects, Directors, VPs, Managers, Leaders, Project Managers, Project Leaders, Seniors and Subject Matter Experts in all disciplines, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Developers, and Business Operations.

Prerequisite: Two plus years in a business, government, or non-profit professional environment, prior project experience, or training.

Courses & Instructors: All courses are delivered by Data Analysis & Results, Inc. (DA&R) experienced and practicing business analysis, project, program, and operations consultants and senior managers with years of experience in many industries. A&I™ courses are written by DA&R ensuring attendees a wealth of best practices and real-world experience. For more information www.DataAnalysis.com.

PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement.
BABOK® Guide Knowledge Areas: BA Plan & Monitor, Requirements, Management & Comm.

A&I, PMPower, Project Pentagon, WEDIAKPO!, and DA&R are trademarks of Data Analysis & Results, Inc.
PMI, PMP, CAPM, PgMP, and PMBOK, are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
IIBA, CBAP, CCBA, and BABOK are registered marks of the International Institute of Business Analysis.