About this course
What you’ll learn
In this course, students will gain the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to be successful project managers. The class is aligned to the standards and practices outlined in the Project Management Institute (PMI)® A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), and other industry standards such as The Scrum Guide™.
At the end of this course, you will:
- Know the foundational concepts of project, program, and portfolio management
- Be able to initiate, plan, and execute a project using traditional and agile practices
- Understand the required leadership and management skills to be a successful project manager
Topics included in the course includes:
- Project management concepts, roles, responsibilities, and lifecycle stages
- Practices and tools for successfully end-to-end project management:
- Selecting and initiating projects
- Planning scope, schedule, and cost
- Managing change, risks, actions, issues, and status
- Stakeholder and communications management
- Identifying, assessing, and building stakeholder relationships
- Effective communications and meeting best practices
- Agile project management mindset, principles, methodologies
- Lean and Kanban
- Scrum
- Program and portfolio management concepts and strategies
- Project selection
- Program and portfolio governance and management
- Leadership and building high-performing teams
The class will be taught using formal, live-online lectures that include hands-on in-class exercises, and outside-of-class group case studies. The exercises and case studies reinforce the concepts provided in class and give students experience using the tools and practices.
Note: While this course may be helpful in preparing for the PMP exam, it is not designed to be a PMP exam prep class. Please check out the Project Management Professional PMP® Prep (Opens in a new window) course to learn information, tips, techniques and learning strategies that will help you prepare for the PMP certification exam.
*PMI, PMBOK, and PMP are trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. which is registered in the United States and other nations.
Who should attend?
Students from a variety of backgrounds, industries, and experience are welcome and will benefit from this course, including:
- People interested in becoming project managers and are starting careers in project management
- Managers, supervisors, and individuals who are managing projects who have not received formal training and want to learn project management skills and processes
- Professionals in other fields who now find themselves responsible for managing projects.
- Those seeking project management contact hours to sit for the PMP® Certification Exam
Continuing Education Information
Students will be awarded a Certificate of Program Completion for 3.6 UGA Continuing Education Units (CEUs (Opens in a new window)) upon successfully completing the course and will be eligible to claim the following:
- Project Management Institute (PMI) PDUs : 26 Technical and 10 Leadership (36 total)
Requirements & policies
Accommodations
The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education is committed to providing equal access to continuing education programs for students living with permanent or temporary disabilities. Learn more about the program accommodations (Opens in a new window).
Fees & funding information
Includes digital course materials such as: a slide deck, handouts, and other reading resources.
The Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) is available for purchase via Amazon or PMI.
Technology
During the live-online sessions, participants are expected to have strong internet service and a laptop/desktop computer with audio and video capabilities to fully interact with the instructor and classmates.
Attendance
To receive the Certificate of Program Completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs), participants must:
- Earn a combined score of 72 points or higher for all course requirements.
- Attend at least 85% of the scheduled live-online class sessions.
- Participate in all in-class and out-of-class learning activities.
People
Instructor
Alan Zucker, PMP, PMI-ACP, Founding Principal Project Management Essentials, LLC
Alan Zucker has over 25-years of experience leading projects and project management organizations in Fortune 100 companies. He is an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University and is a senior instructor with several national, professional development organizations.
Alan has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland and a master’s certificate in IT Project Management from the George Washington University. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Agile Professional (PMI-ACP) through the Project Management Institute. He also holds multiple Agile certifications from the Disciplined Agile Consortium, Scrum Alliance, and Scaled Agile.
In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to provide advisory consulting and training in project management, Agile transformation to clients across the United States. He is also a keynote speaker and thought leader and is regularly featured in the industry press and as a podcast guest. He also publishes monthly articles on project management, agile, and leadership.
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