MDP700 - Certificate in Applied Project Management (Days)
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Course description
Today’s organizations continue to be driven by external forces. World-wide markets demand smarter solutions, faster turnarounds and, if not lower prices, then higher value. This program gives you proven ways to meet the daily challenges of project management.

Our Certificate in Applied Project Management is designed to help professionals accelerate their personal and company success. With a focused curriculum taught by skilled project management practitioners, the program enables students to acquire new skills and apply them immediately to their career.

Our students come from many disciplines: information technology, health care, telecommunications, financial and retail services. They are motivated to contribute and to learn more every day.

What’s Unique About Our Certificate in Applied Project Management Program? Our program focuses on a real-world project format. This unique format allows tools and techniques taught in class to be practiced within the framework of your current business. This program will identify problems currently faced in business and work to solve them throughout the program. The format provides the chance to try techniques without the expense or risk to your company or projects. Real-world projects are the hallmark of our evening certificate program.

Throughout the 12 classes, we will address key topic areas in project management, including:

• The project environment
• Project risk and quality
• Initiating the project
• Tracking project implementation
• Project planning
• Reporting status and closing out the project
• Scheduling and estimating

• Miss no more than two classes. (non-consecutive)
• Attendance is mandatory for classes 1, 2 and 12
• Make payment in full
• Work in a team environment on a real-world project, and participate in a final presentation to the class
• Access to e-mail for communicating with team members and staff
• Students should expect to take five quizzes throughout the course. Students must maintain a cumulative average of 70%

Who should attend
This course is primarily designed for project managers who wish to enhance their understanding of the project procurement and contract management processes. Individuals taking this course should have at least two years of experience working on project teams.

Prerequisites
There is extensive pre-work reading assignment for this class which takes approximately 3-5 hours to complete. The reading must be completed before the start of this class. Registration for this class will be closed 1 week before the start date because of the extensive pre-work component.
The attendee must attend the entire 12 week program. Class hours are 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

What you will achieve

• Upon completion of this course, you will have achieved an understanding of:
  


• The role and responsibilities of the project manager
  


• The organization of project management processes into nine Knowledge Areas and five Process Groups
  


• The 42 project management processes into day-to-day project management activities
  


• The processes involved in estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs for completing a project within the approved budget
  


• Identifying and assessing project risks and develop appropriate risk response strategies
  


• The work involved in planning purchases and acquisitions for projects
  


• How changes are formally incorporated into a project
  


• Strategies for managing and resolving conflict
  


• How to produce a viable project management plan
  


• How to define a project charter
  


• The goals of stakeholder management and how to perform a stakeholder analysis
  


• The development of a project communications planning matrix to address the needs of the project stakeholders
  


• How to create a WBS
  


• How to create a project schedule network diagram
  


• How to develop a quality management plan
  Although the course is designed to give you a foundation in project management skills and practices, and is compliant with the standards and knowledge of PMP® certification and Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), it is not a PMP® preparation course.

What you will learn

• Expected results gained from using this model are reduced lead times, market responsiveness, controlled costs and customer satisfaction, as well as enhanced productivity and organizational effectiveness.
  Course Outline
  
  
  Day 1


• Module 1: What is Project Management?


• Module 2: Project Context, Life Cycles, and Process Groups
  
  Day 2


• Module 3: How to Develop High Performance Teams


• Module 4: How to Initiate a Project
  
  Day 3


• Module 5: How to Manage Project Communication


• Module 6: How to Plan Project Scope
  
  Day 4


• Module 7: How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure


• Module 8: How to Define Project Activities
  
  Day 5


• Module 9: How to Sequence Project Activities


• Module 10: How to Estimate Activity Resources and Duration
  
  Day 6


• Module 14: Negotiation I


• Module 15: Negotiation 2
  
  Day 7


• Module 11: How to Develop a Project Schedule


• Module 13: How to Estimate Project Cost and Level Resources
  
  Day 8


• Module 16: How to Identify and Analyze Project Risk


• Module 17: How to Plan Risk Responses
  
  Day 9


• Module 18: How to Plan Quality into a Project


• Module 19: How to Measure and Control Quality
  
  Day 10


• Module 20: How to Finalize the Project Schedule and Budget


• Module 21: Project Procurement and Integrated Change Control


• Module 22: How to Report Project Performance and Verify Project Scope
  
  Day 11


• Module 22: How to Report Project Performance and Verify Project Scope


• Module 12: How to Manage Conflict


• Module 23: Project Closure and Applied Lessons Learned
  
  Day 12


• Module 24: Final Presentation of the Project Plan