Project Management Overview (PDUs Awarded)

This is an introductory class to the Project Management discipline.

Project Management Core Skills and Leadership for Team Leads (PDUs Awarded)

This course covers the core skills and activities of a small team leader operating in support of a project. The project management concepts required to support the lead of a project manager include roles, vocabulary, key processes, and major tools. The role of the team leader in the context of the team and the project are defined in detail. Key support skills in communications, conflict management, and motivation are also addressed.

Project Management Core Skills and Leadership for Project Managers (PDUs Awarded)

This course covers the basics of Project Management and Leadership including Requirements, Work Breakdown Structures, Life Cycles Management Concepts, Risk Management, General Project Management Theory, Basic Project Leadership, Interpersonal Skills, the Role of the Team Leader, the Roles of Team Members, Interacting with Customers, Managing Conflict, and Demonstrating Accountability.

Project Management Core Skills and Leadership for Program Managers (PDUs Awarded)

This course covers the core skills of Program Management and Leadership. It prepares program managers to make the key shift in focus from project level management to program level management. This course assumes a high level of hand on experience in management, project management, or other leadership positions.

Earned Value Management Skills for Team Leads (PDUs Awarded)

This course covers the basics of Earned Value Management and Cost Estimation.

Earned Value Management Skills for Project Managers (PDUs Awarded)

This course covers earned value and cost estimating skills needed by intermediate level project managers: IS based financial reporting systems, EVM analysis, EVM resource requirements, and business process re-engineering.

Earned Value Management Skills for Program Managers (PDUs Awarded)

This course covers earned value and cost estimating skills needed by upper level program managers: IS based financial reporting systems, EVM analysis, EVM resource requirements, and business process re-engineering.

Basic Acquisition I

This course covers the basics of how acquisition professionals balance risk, cost, schedule, performance, lessons learned, and the necessary management metrics to deliver quality systems/products.

Government Specific Project Management Skills for Team Leads

This course provides a hands-on experience in building and managing small teams in a project environment. Included in the course are the main ideas, processes, key steps, and indicators of how to build a high performing project support team that supports the quality, communications, and risk management processes used by project managers.

Government Specific Project Management Skills for Project Managers

This course provides a high level overview of project communications management, quality management, and risk management. Included in the course are the main ideas, processes, key steps, and indicators of how well a project is performing in each of these areas. For each topic covered there is a detailed inventory of steps that can be used to structure and inspect the performance of a project manager or project management team.

Government Specific Advanced Program Management Skills for Program Managers

This course provides students with a model, tools, skills, and hands on experience working in an agency leadership and management role. Students will develop a clear understanding of the program manager’s functions and how they differ from those of a project manager. Tools necessary for gathering information necessary to support decisions in large scale dynamic leadership position are inventoried and explored in depth. Processes for generating and understanding the outputs of program level management activities are developed. In the classroom labs, students function in the role of a program manager working in a program environment. Using lab inputs, program management tools, skills, and feedback from their actions, students pursue a strategic mission. Students gain successful hands-on experience using a functional program management model.

CAPM/PMP Examination Preparation Workshop (PDUs Awarded)

Attending this course will assist the student in developing the ability to discern project management practices which do and do not comply with Project Management Institute (PMI) expectations as outlined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The course also covers strategies, concepts, definitions, and practices whose understanding is required to pass PMI’s Project Management Professionals (PMP), and Certified Associates in Project Management (CAPM) examinations.

Microsoft Project 2007 (13 PDUs)

This two-day course is designed for individuals who will use Microsoft Project 2007 as a tool to assist them in managing projects. The topics in this course cover the critical skills necessary to create and modify a project plan file that contains tasks, resources, and resource assignments. Students will then build upon these skills and work with a project plan once it has entered the project implementation phase.

Microsoft Project 2010

In this course, students will learn how to create and manage a project schedule using Microsoft® Project 2010.

Leadership and Interpersonal Skills I

This course covers the basics of project leadership and interpersonal skills including the role of the team leader, the roles of team members, interacting with customers, managing conflict, and demonstrating accountability.

Leadership and Interpersonal Skills II

This course covers key leadership and interpersonal skills required to manage intermediate level projects: stakeholder partnering, entrepreneurship, strategic thinking, innovation, and utilizing diversity.

Project Scope and Requirements Management (16.25 PDUs)

This course will enable participants to effectively manage the scope and requirements of a project. As part of the Triple Constraints, Scope is often the most challenging part of the constraints to manage. In this class the participants will participate in group exercises that will enable them to learn the skills needed to properly manage the Scope of a project.

Project Time and Cost Management (16.25 PDUs)

The goal of this workshop course is to develop skills required to effectively manage the schedule and budget of a project. As part of the Triple Constraints, the schedule and budget of a project (and the management thereof) are Key Performance Indicators regarding the success of any project. This course will enable the participants to hone the skills necessary to effectively manage the schedule and budget of a project.

Project Risk Management (19.5 PDUs)

This course will guide the student through the Risk Management process as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Through a series of hands-on exercises the student will learn the proper methodology for managing risks.

Project Quality Management (6.5 PDUs)

This intensive class will guide the student through the Project Quality Management process as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Students will be introduced to industry best practices.

Project Communications Management (6.5 PDUs)

This intensive course will guide the student through the Project Communications Management process as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Project Human Resource Management (13 PDUs)

This is an intensive class that will guide the student through the Project Human Resource Management process as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

PM Workshop 1 - Applied Project Management Fundamentals

This course provides a means for inexperienced project managers to quickly develop acumen and for experienced project managers to push their skills to a higher level. The course assumes no prior knowledge or education in project management but does assume a leader, experience as an NCO, or an officer. Students attending the course learn to define projects, how to create success oriented project environments, how to be effective in the role of project planner, and the skills necessary to lead a team through the successful implementation of a project plan. During the course, students complete a series of lab activities to apply the tools & techniques discussed in the classroom. Students leave the course with practical hands-on experience in planning projects.

PM Workshop 2 - Project Time Estimating, Cost Estimating, and Standing Up an EVMS

This course teaches project managers how to increase the accuracy of project duration estimates, how to reduce cost estimate variations, how to produce a credible performance management baseline, how to stand up an Earned Value Management System (EVMS), and how to leverage EVMS data to set management priorities. The in-class labs are hands-on and action-oriented. Attendees participate in the creation of a data-driven management environment and then utilize the management information generated to maintain project momentum and determine where limited resources are best applied to solve problems. The course assumes attendance in workshop 1 or strong knowledge project planning theory. Students leave the course with practical hands-on experience applying concepts from the March 2009 GAO Cost Estimating Guide and standing up an ANSI Compliant Earned Value Management System.

PM Workshop 3 - Risk and Quality Management

This course provides tackles two of the most difficult advanced project management areas of mastery: Risk Management and Quality Management. New project managers will find this course to be a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of current thinking on the topics, sources of dissention in management priorities, current terminology in the areas of practice, and approaches setting value-driven management priorities. The Risk Management section of the course delves into the dozens of every day bias-driven sources of error in project risk ranking, the incorporation of emotional intelligence indicators to improve the risk valuation process, non-redundant time buffering practices, and three point estimate pool-based contingency reserve sizing techniques. The Quality Management section of the course discusses the different time epochs of quality management and the resultant tools from each epoch, contributors of key concepts, the application of manufacturing quality tools to highly variable project management environments, and ultimately defining a stable clear understanding of exactly how you customer perceives quality so you can hit the mark on the first iteration. The final section of the course examines the use of Earned Value Management data to implement a high level project Quality and Risk Management early warning system to enable the project manager to more often locate emerging problems while they are still in the early stages of emergence. Students leave the course with the ability to conducts a sensitive and sophisticated project risk and quality planning process enabling them to control costs and deliver maximum project value.

ITIL Foundations Certification v3

This class requires 5 or more students

This course provides IT Managers and Practitioners with a practical understanding of IT Service Management, the underpinning core ITIL Service Delivery and Service Support Processes and implementation guidance. It describes a set of processes involved in developing an IT framework and features both lecture and interactive hands-on learning experience throughout the course. This results in a thorough grounding in the basic theory of ITSM, which can be used to take the Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, or to participate in ITSM projects at any level. The ITIL Foundations Certification Exam is administered at the end of the course.