Learn to improve performance during the initiation of your project. Development of a project charter and identification of your stakeholders is the first of many best practices you can use to kick-off your projects successfully. If this is your first project, or one of many, this course will bring focus to the initiation phase and help kick off a successful project.
4 Professional Development Units (PDU)
Good leadership includes good communication skills but those skills have to be learned and then planned for. Whether you are a great communicator or you find yourself with misunderstandings across a team dynamic this course can help direct you to building a plan that works for your individual stakeholders and team members. Aspects of this course will help you identify communication styles so you can effectively communicate and finally put together a plan that works.
2 Professional Development Units (PDU)
More and more project teams are virtual and global. Many manager struggle to understand different cultures and manage diversity as well as different communication styles. This course is developed to help managers gain a world view and strengthen their global virtual teams.
2 Professional Development Units (PDU)
PMI®, PMP®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
For many years’ team motivation fell to the back burner of corporate necessity while the focus was on profit and process. Now organizations are beginning to see the value in team and individual motivations, work styles and general happiness at work. This short course will review different theories through time, personality styles and how to apply that information to your own team dynamic.
2 Professional Development Units (PDU)
PMI®, PMP®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
For many people negotiations can be a challenge even for seasoned negotiators who don’t always get exactly what they wanted from the interaction. This short course will describe a variety of ways to prepare for a negotiation, how to plan for what you want to gain and several proven negotiation techniques that you can fit to your communication and personality style. Once you know your style of negotiation and theirs you can more appropriately plan for success.
2 Professional Development Units (PDU)
PMI®, PMP®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Using best practices in project management can be difficult in the real world. This course combines both concepts to help with the understanding of what MS Project software is doing in the background and how to take advantage of “perfect world project management” in a real world setting.
Using a combination of best practices from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) 5th Edition and step by step instruction in MS Project Professional 2016 you can begin to implement those best practices right away on current and future projects. If you are a power user of Project you can jump around to only what you need to know and use those techniques immediately. If you are newer to project management and project software you can take your time and work through from beginning to end. Templates used in the course are provided for practice and the courses helps gain or maintain your PMP® or CAPM® certifications.
PMI®, PMP®, CAPM®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Using best practices in project management can be difficult in the real world. This course combines both concepts to help with the understanding of what Microsoft Project software is doing in the background and how to utilize it for your projects.
To stay relevant in the competitive, professional world, it’s increasingly important that professionals can demonstrate true leadership ability on today’s software projects. The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even potential employers that students are ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management and delivery.
The PMI-ACP® spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD). So it will increase students’ versatility, wherever your projects may take you.
This course provides students with 21 contact hours in agile practices to help attain the Project Management Institute (PMI)® credential.
PMI® and PMI-ACP® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
In this instructor led, online training course, students will learn how use their current Waterfall project management best practices and to adopt and apply effective Agile best practices. This course will introduce Waterfall teams to Agile frameworks to allow for effective tailoring on current or future projects.
