Project Management

1. Identify the elements of the Project Management life cycle. 2. Examine the role of a Project Manager including the importance of managing people and expectations. 3. Demonstrate the processes to build a thorough project plan. 4. Identify the key terms of Project Management. 5. Utilize basic tools and techniques to plan, organize, and manage a project. 6. Evaluate best outcomes based on risks and constraints. 7. Describe the career paths in the project management profession.

Upon completion of this course students will be able to: 1. Differentiate global codes of ethics and conduct 2. Recognize cultural influences on ethics 3. Analyze and remediate ethical situations and sustainability 4. Develop appropriate approaches for managing projects within multiple cultures

Upon completion of this course students will be able to: 1. Recognize all project stakeholders and identify their specific role and influence in the project 2. Differentiate between formal and informal communications methods and defend when each is applicable on a project. 3. Evaluate and select appropriate tools and methods to communicate with identified stakeholders, including commonly used templates for communication activities such as status reporting, issue tracking, change control, and project reviews 4. Construct a communication-management plan that defines the participants, communication processes, tools, and methods required for appropriate project communication

1. Translate the sponsoring organization's vision for a project into an achievable Project Charter. 2. Utilize customer requirements and the triple constraint to develop the project's scope. 3. Develop a comprehensive Work Breakdown Structure by translating requirements into tasks. 4. Establish an initial project cost and schedule baseline. 5. Develop an initial project plan.

1. Define how proper management of risk, change, and quality leads to successful project outcomes. 2. Identify likely outcomes when risk, change, and quality are not properly managed. 3. Explain the steps needed to develop an appropriate risk response plan to real project situations. 4. Apply the steps used to manage change within real project situations. 5. Translate customer and stakeholder requirements into an appropriate quality management plan. 6. Describe the steps needed to validate that project deliverables satisfy customer and stakeholder requirements.

1. Demonstrate different approaches for building and leading project teams. 2. Discuss various project communications methods and project politics and how they can affect the outcomes of projects. 3. Identify global project management concepts and the challenges of managing a global project team. 4. Discuss the role that different cultures play in managing global projects and how a project manager would manage global teams and networks. 5. Discuss the role of a project manager in an Agile environment and review various Agile methodologies, and discuss how they differ. 6. Identify the root cause of troubled projects, when recovery is necessary, and the methods for getting troubled projects back on track.

1. Prepare to take the CAPM exam. 2. Identify the Knowledge areas which will be covered in the CAPM exam. 3. Describe the Project Management processes associated with each Knowledge Area 4. Explain the Project Life Cycle and how this integrates with the various Knowledge Areas 5. Review the various Project Management formulas and their use within the exam 6. Analyze how CAPM questions are formulated to provide multiple possible responses. 7. Discern subtle hints within questions and answers that may lead you to the correct response.