Mastering Project Management
Overview
Intended for a project manager with experience, this course builds upon the fundamentals explored in Essentials of Project Management. It focuses on strengthening skills previously developed and expanding skills to explore more advanced topics like: leadership, project performance management and the core competencies of project management.
Advanced study includes plan development and performance management to aid in project planning, scheduling and measuring results. Interpersonal or soft skills are emphasized throughout to ensure project-management success through people-management success.
62 PDUs | 8 Continuing Education Units
80 Military Clock Hours | 10 Military Clock Hours Per Week
Who Should Enroll?
For the project management professional who understands the fundamentals explored in Essentials and is seeking more advanced skills, both process-based and people-based.
Course offerings and associated prices are subject to change without prior notice. Pricing for multi-course certificate programs varies depending on course selection. View the Professional Education Catalog for more information on the courses and programs.
What You’ll Learn
Project Plan Development
- Introduction to Project Plan Development
- Collect Requirements
- Create Work Breakdown Structure
- Plan Quality
- Develop Schedule
- Estimate Costs
- Plan Communications
- Identify Risks
- Plan Procurement
- Scope Baseline
- The Project Management Plan
People-Based Project Management
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Scoring the Instrument and Interpreting the Results
- The Dimensions
- The Sixteen Types and the Temperaments
- Recognizing the Type in Others
- Acknowledging the Differences
- Communication and Personality Type
- Personality in Teams
- Creating a Project Management Culture
- Project Management Maturity
- The ROI of Project Management
- Introduction to Maximizing Influence
- Planning and Initiation
- Project Execution
- Metrics and Resolution
Project Performance Management
- Direct and Manage Project Execution
- Scope, Schedule, and Cost Monitoring
- Earned Value Measurement Methods
- Variances and Indexes
- Forecasting
- Recovery Metrics and Responses
Practical Project Management
- Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers
- Identifying and Understanding Emotions
- Understanding the Project Environment
- How Healthy is Your Team?
- Corporate Trust
- Stress Management
- Motivating Project Teams
- Motivational Strategies and Tactics
- Developing a Coherent Plan
- Navigating a Diverse Landscape
- Managing Diversity and Inclusion
- Gender and Project Management
- The Global Landscape
Curriculum
8 Week Course
Project Plan Development
- Identify the key documents used to initiate and plan a project
- Differentiate between a project management plan and project documents
- Discuss project charters and case studies
- Categorize stakeholders and develop a stakeholder register
- Describe how to document and manage requirements and create requirements documentation
- Create a project scope statement, a work breakdown structure, and a quality management plan
Project Plan Development, continued
- Identify the steps and activities necessary for effective scheduling and develop a critical path method schedule
- Complete an estimating worksheet
- Create a communication plan, a project management plan, a risk management plan, and a performance measurement baseline
- Respond to identified risks
- Define the procurement process and create a procurement management plan
People-Based Project Management
- Use the MBTI for self-assessment and be able to score and interpret the results
- Describe the dimensions and 16 types of personalities identified by the MBTI
- Work with different temperaments and personality types among team members
- Discuss how different personality types among team members can improve the project
- Discuss the importance of communication in project management
People-Based Project Management, continued
- Identify how to maximize his/her influence during project planning and initiation
- Manage the flow of information during a project
- Identify key metrics and avoid misusing metrics
- Discuss the importance of obtaining project sign-off at delivery
- Discuss different communication types and guidelines to follow when dealing with issues
Project Performance Management
- Create a project management culture
- Analyze and identify the various maturity models
- Discuss the ROI methodology
- Discuss how to collect and analyze data in an ROI evaluation
- Discuss how to report findings in an ROI evaluation
Project Performance Management, continued
- Discuss the executing processes
- Identify monitoring and controlling processes
- Calculate a project’s earned value and its cost and schedule indexes
- Calculate an Estimate to Complete, an Estimate at Completion, and a To-Complete Performance Index
- Discuss how to recover a project that is over time and budget
Practical Project Management
- Improve their emotional intelligence
- Discuss the two models used to identify emotions
- Identify emotions in others and use emotions to solve problems within projects
- Discuss how a leader should behave in a project environment
- Identify the 11 factors of team health and the 13 behaviors that lead to trust
- Discuss ways to handle stress
Practical Project Management, continued
- Discuss effective motivational strategies and tactics
- Discuss the People Capability Maturity Model
- Manage diverse and inclusive teams
- Manage gender issues in project management
- Manage global project teams
If you’re going to pay by credit card, you can either get started with installment payments or pay in full. Just let your enrollment representative know the option that works best for you.
Corporate Tuition Assistance
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Corporate TA
Corporate tuition assistance is paid by your employer. You will need to provide appropriate forms for processing, prior to enrollment. Subject to employer benefit policies.
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Deferred Corporate TA
Pay tuition now and have your employer reimburse you. Additional documentation will be needed to process this payment. Subject to employer benefit policies.
Military Benefits
Active Duty
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course, to active-duty servicemembers, Guardsmen and Reservists (upon verification of military status).
Veterans
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course to veterans (upon verification of military status). You may also use your Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) education benefits for many of Villanova’s 100% online non-credit programs, based upon your individual eligibility.
Spouses and Dependents
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course, to active-duty servicemembers, veterans, Guardsmen, Reservists and their spouses and dependents (upon verification of military status).
This reduction is valid off the standard tuition fee rate of the listed courses offered by Villanova University with online administration by Bisk. This reduction is not stackable with other reductions, and you may not use this reduction in conjunction with other reductions.
