Overview
Project management is possibly the most critical skill separating successful managers from ineffectual ones. Whether you have formal responsibility for projects or not, abilities such as how to establish schedules, set priorities and deliver to commitments are essential to personal productivity and organizational success.
This three-day program will introduce you to a project management discipline that can be implemented in any organization. You will acquire a framework of information and tools to plan, estimate, schedule, and control projects ranging from the simple to the complex.
As your career advances, your work will tend to evolve from routine tasks to more challenging projects. Every professional can benefit from studying the practices developed to execute projects on schedule and budget while minimizing the stress to yourself and your project team.
This program enables you to learn and practice project management skills and techniques and ultimately become an expert in project completion.
Highlights
This course provides a solid overview of project management concepts and principles using lectures, small group case studies, and class discussions. Teams of students work to develop a real project from concept to conclusion, emulating the project management life cycle. After completing the program, you will have learned to:
- master fundamental project management skills, concepts, and techniques
- create project charter, scope statement, work breakdown structure, project network, project schedule and project budget
- link project goals and objectives to clear, compelling stakeholder needs
- recruit and manage high-performance teams
- set realistic, measurable objectives and ensure positive results
- apply concepts such as critical path, schedule compression, crashing, slick/float, fast tracking and resource leveling
- identify, evaluate and manage project risks and develop risk management plans
- close-out projects and capture the lessons learned.
Unique Features
The Principles of Project Management program at Florida International University offers students a unique combination of benefits:
- tried and true techniques first developed by technical professionals and now considered best practices for general use
- “hands-on” case work to help integrate the lessons and new skills in action
- recommended strategies for handling multiple projects and tasks
- Certified Project Managers may earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) in this course.
- suggested tools and advice on communications within the project team and the larger organization
- special emphasis on managing the all-important human resources aspect of projects
- a structured approach for concluding projects including how to capture and communicate what worked well and areas for improvement
Participants
This program is of value to anyone who has responsibility for project planning and management who has not had formal project management training.
For more information about program topics, faculty, schedule, tuition, location, and registration, see the detailed program information.
