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Advanced Project Management

This bundle of six Advanced Project Management courses will raise your level of expertise in key project management areas:

  • achieve more effective stakeholder relationships
  • covers a range of estimating techniques
  • explores unique aspects of accelerated projects
  • surveys how to set up a project office
  • touches on project portfolio management
  • discusses project management maturity within organizations

These will give you a strong grasp of these areas and may reveal areas of opportunity and further exploration.
Course Bundle: Advanced Project Management - 17.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)This bundle includes:
  • "Advanced Project Management: Building Productive Stakeholder Relationship"
  • "Advanced Project Management: Project Estimating Techniques"
  • "Advanced Project Management: Managing Accelerated Projects"
  • "Advanced Project Management: Setting Up a Project Office"
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    Advanced Project Management - Building Productive Stakeholder Relationships - 3.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)This course teaches how to classify stakeholders as primary, strategic, and operational sponsors and how to determine stakeholders' needs and expectations. It covers how to create a formal communication plan, how to resolve conflict with stakeholders, and what steps are commonly used to control change. Finally, it teaches questions to ask stakeholders to learn their definition of quality and guidelines for discussing costs of quality with stakeholders.
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    Advanced Project Management - Project Estimating Techniques - 2.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)This course teaches how time-box and analogous estimates are used, how to use life-cycle projections, and how the Modified Delphi method is used. It also teaches how to calculate PERT estimates and how function point analysis and forecasting are used. In addition, it covers how to avoid common estimating mistakes and how orders of magnitude help gauge the accuracy of estimates. Finally, it teaches steps for explaining estimates to stakeholders, how to document estimates, and how to improve them.
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    Advanced Project Management - Managing Accelerated Projects - 3.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)This course teaches the limitations of project management scheduling packages, schedule compression techniques, and the risks of using the different techniques. It also covers how ERP benefits project management, how to calculate the percent efficiency of resources, and what elements project managers should consider when planning for resources. Finally, it teaches how to promote teamwork and enhance productivity, empower project team members, and create a sense of urgency to ensure project work is completed on time.
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    Advanced Project Management - Setting Up a Project Office - 2.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)In Advanced Project Management: Setting Up a Project Office, you will learn terms associated with project office and the different functions a project office can fulfill. You will also learn how an organization can determine the need for, plan, and implement a project office.
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    Advanced Project Management - Portfolio Management - 3.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)In Advanced Project Management: Portfolio Management, you will learn the functions of portfolio management, the types of portfolios, and how to select and prioritize projects. You will also learn ways to maintain a balanced portfolio and track and allocate resources.
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    Advanced Project Management - Project Management Maturity - 4.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)In Advanced Project Management: Project Management Maturity, you will learn how projects are typically managed and what processes and tools usually exist at each of the five maturity levels. You will also learn how to assess a department or organization's maturity level, obstacles that prevent attaining high maturity levels, and how executives can promote project management.
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