Course Format: Courses are 12.5 instructional hours (1 unit) or 25 instructional hours (2 units), are scheduled in 4-8 class meetings of 3 – 4 hours each class and can be complete in one - two months; the entire certificate program can be completed in two semesters.

PMP Boot Camp: Prepare for the Project Management Professional (PMP) examination in a 37.5 hour intensive program.

PMP X809 PMP Boot Camp - 3 units

Certificate: Complete four core courses, a capstone team project, and two electives for a total of at least 11 units to earn the Project Management professional certificate.

Core Courses

PMP X800 Project Management Overview: Framework, Process Groups and Integration - 2 units
PMP X801 Human Factor: Build and Communicate with the Project Teams - 1 unit
PMP X802 Project Management Scope, Risk and Earned Value Management - 2 units
PMP X803 Managing Project Quality, Negotiations, Contracting and Procurement - 2 units
PMP X804 Capstone Team Project - 2 units

Elective Courses (2 courses required)

PMP X805 Agile Overview - 1 unit
PMP X806 Creating and Managing a Project Management Office - 1 unit
PMP X807 Project Management Leadership - 1 unit
PMP X808 Change Management - 1 unit

Learning Outcomes of the Certificate

You will learn to ...

• Understand and describe the genesis of projects, programs, and portfolios
• Plan, execute, monitor, control, and close projects
• Use project management techniques including triple constraint, selection methods, work breakdown structure, Gantt chars, network diagrams and critical path analysis, costs estimates and earned value management
• Become a professional Project Manager
• Prepare for the PMP (Project Management Professional) certification exam with tips and relevant practice exam questions that will enhance the learning experience

Courses

PMP X800 Project Management Overview: Framework, Process Groups and Integration - 2 units (Core Course)

Projects that are planned and managed with the help of a standard methodology as provided by the Project Management Institute (PMI) are much more likely to meet and exceed their goals and objectives. This course provides the solid foundation needed for project success and builds an understanding and knowledge of the project management framework as defined by the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOX). You will increase your awareness and competency levels in project planning, monitoring, control and closeout, using sophisticated project management tools and techniques to facilitate and manage the work. You will learn to:

• Understand the roles of a project manager and team members
• Apply a standard methodology to conduct a project and approaches for selecting projects, programs, and portfolios
• Define and execute each step in the Project life cycle: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling and closing projects
• Communicate in Project Management terms and apply techniques, including: the triple constraint of project management; five Knowledge Areas; selection methods; work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, network diagrams, critical path analysis, cost estimates, and earned value management
• Define and understand a project charter, project scope statement and project management plan

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PMP X801 Human Factor: Build and Communicate with the Project Teams - 1 unit (Core Course)

The successful outcome of a project team varies directly with the skills of the team leader. His or her knowledge and ability to lead the team is the substance of this course.  With a focus on the project management Knowledge Areas of Human Resources and Communication, this course prepares you to select and lead a team to plan, manage, and follow through on activities associated with the project objectives to complete the project.  Arming project teams with proper skills they need should be every managers’ first assignment.  You will learn to:

• Implement communication strategies that will prove most effective in securing stakeholder satisfaction

• Apply best practices, tools and techniques, that can be readily applied on the project
• Build PMI vocabulary and terminology
• Review and analyze real world and situational project examples

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PMP X802 Project Management Scope, Risk and Earned Value Management - 2 units (Core Course)

Every project is an investment. Whether you undertake large projects such as Web projects, capital projects, engineering projects, facilities project, marketing projects, or small one-person projects, you are allocating time and money resources on behalf of your organization.  In this course you learn a uniform approach for Earned Value Project Management (EVPM) and examine processes and procedures that the Engineers/Program/Project Financial Managers may encounter during the monitoring and review of monitoring reports.  You will learn to:

• Understand the intent and importance of Earned Value Project Management

• Properly develop a project including project charter, scope definition, objectives and deliverables
• Develop scope change management procedures
• Identify risk components and triggers, develop risk responses, and understand the impact of risk to customers and develop methods to identify their risk tolerance
• Use the risk register tool to assess risk

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PMP X803 Managing Project Quality, Negotiations, Contracting and Procurement - 2 units (Core Course)

In a Project Manager role, you make decisions every day that affect the quality and ultimate outcome of a project. This course covers two major areas of study required to ensure positive outcomes. The first deals with quality management and focuses on the history and major concept areas and practices within the field of quality. The second area is that of supply chain management and focuses on the major areas of sourcing, negotiation, contracting and contract management. You will learn to:

• Define total quality management and compare and contrast it with traditional management
• Compare and contrast an organization's process improvement plan and strategic plan, and highlight the importance of leadership as it relates to quality
• Develop an understanding of customer satisfaction, both internally and externally, and the tools and techniques used to measure and control it
• Understand process analysis and process improvement
• Outline the steps necessary to implement a quality management plan
• Understand the field of supply management and its history
• Outline the processes of data collection, data analysis and management, and cost management
• Understand the processes connected with sourcing, negotiations and contracting
• Define the processes of supplier management and development, and supplier relationship management
• Outline the social and legal responsibilities of supply management professionals
• Understand the unique attributes of international sourcing

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PMP X804 Capstone Team Project - 2 units (Core Course)

Prerequisites: PMP X800, PMP X801, PMP X802, PMP X803

This course pulls together all the knowledge and learning experiences of the other four core courses. You will work with other classmates on a team project that will provide an experiential learning environment. This simulated approach puts the team in a realistic project situation that will enforce and reinforce Project Management skills. You will learn to:

• Apply and demonstrate knowledge and mastery of good project management principles

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PMP X805 Agile Overview - 1 unit (Elective)

Discover the unique set of Agile values and principles used to manage projects and explore the best areas of application for this approach. This course will provide an overview of Agile practices and clarifies commonly used terms, roles, relationships and day to day team interaction. A deeper dive will reveal the inner workings to apply the most common practices of Agile, such as, Scrum.  Scrum is an Agile framework that supports lightweight processes and addresses continuous improvement. You will learn to:

• Build a working knowledge of Agile, its concepts and methods
• Examine Agile development and provide clarity for concepts like Scrum, Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, Pair-programming, and others
• Use Agile concepts to manage projects

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PMP X806 Creating and Managing a Project Management Office - 1 unit (Elective)

Creating an organizational infrastructure to facilitate and maximize effectiveness is essential to seamless operations and successful project outcomes. The primary goal of a Project Management Office (PMO) is to achieve benefits from standardizing and following project management policies, processes and methods. Over time, a PMO generally will become the source for guidance, documentation, and metrics related to the practices involved in managing and implementing projects within the organization. You will learn to:

• Design and implement a project management office (PMO) for maximum effectiveness
• Identify organizational factors that can affect a PMO
• Define and understand the three basic organizational styles
• Improve your PMO over time

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PMP X807 Project Management Leadership - 1 unit (Elective)

Project Management tends to focus on the technical aspects of a project, however, just as important is the social and cultural aspects of the program. Being a great leader in any project is imperative to its success.  Such leadership qualities involve building a strong team, negotiating properly, problem solving and balancing internal politics.  All of these factors are imperative to have significant project management success. This course will provide overall leadership skills for the project leader, project team and organization. You will learn to:

• Strengthen a teams’ working relationship
• Understand the negotiating process and apply negotiating skills
• Ask the right questions to assess a problem or other situation
• Identify your current approach to making decisions
• Manage internal politics

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PMP X808 Change Management - 1 unit (Elective)

When an organization introduces a change with a project, that change needs to be appropriately managed on both the technical and the human side of the organization. The technicalities of a project ensure that the change is developed, designed and delivered effectively with the right tools and processes. On the human side organizations need to ensure that the change is well received, adopted and utilized by the employees who have to do their jobs differently as a result of the project. You will learn to:

• Use change management structure, processes and tools to ensure these changes are done correctly
• Ensure that projects deliver the intended results and outcomes
• Integrate change management and project management to create a unified approach to implementing change on both the technical and people side of the organization

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PMP X809 Boot Camp - 3 units

This course is designed as a rigorous review of content that must be known in order to successfully pass the PMP examination. The purpose of the course is to transfer project management knowledge so that you are better prepared for the PMP examination. General topics or focus of this course are the 5 processes and 10 knowledge areas of study which comprise the project management framework as documented in the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge.

This course fits nicely as a consolidation and simplification of the course work required for the PMP certification. The course is a summarization of the PMP Certification courses. 

The ideal audiences for this course are those who are currently in a management position or who are responsible to execute projects in the work place.  It is also an excellent course for those wishing to prepare to take the PMP certification exam. 

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