Practice using the tools and techniques of formal project management.
Learn the fundamentals and best practices of project management through hands-on, real-world exercises. Ensure that you are delivering business value by assessing a project’s business case, identifying stakeholders and their relationship to your project, capturing product requirements, and establishing quality metrics to guide the development of your product and reassess the business case. Define product scope to provide clarity for project delivery and create a work breakdown structure to define project scope for the team.
By the end of this course, you should have gained a good understanding and experience of the core competencies that make a successful project manager.
Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.
PMI is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This is a BYOD course. Students should bring a PC, Mac, or tablet to class in order to access digital course materials. Students can download a copy of the course materials in their MyGK account.
1: Match competence to scenario
2: Evaluate a project business case
3: Identify and assess stakeholders
4: Develop a communication plan
5: Define product scope
6: Decompose product scope into stakeholder requirements
7: Create WBS and dictionary
8: Create risk register
9: Establish quality metrics
10: Create an initial schedule and budget
11: Review and disposition a change request
12: Use metrics to reassess the business case
13: Close out a project
Join our public courses in our Canada facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.