Courses

Course Description

Whether projects are assigned to you, spring up from necessity, or emerge due to organizational change; an understanding of how to manage project work will increase your success. Project management theory can increase your organizational skills, help you manage client work, or give you a path to successfully run an event. This Series provides a framework in project theory and agile projects that will allow participants to intentionally choose the best approach to their workplace. By understanding how all the tools and requirements work together, you can then discern how to adjust project tools to match your specific project needs. Whether you work in an organization that formally recognizes Project Management Institute® theory and concepts, or you work in an organization that has never heard of PMI® – you will find tremendous value in the tools and tactics of project management theory taught in this series. The knowledge gained from PMO® structure is valuable and applicable, and will help build experience or a resume to encourage upward movement or annual goal fulfillment in any workplace, organization, or career.

This Series is comprised of two separate courses.

–Succeeding with Projects
–Intro to Agile

The registration tab on this page will automatically register you in both courses with a 15% series discount.

Length: The total length of both courses is 3.5 days

This series is part of the Executing Successful Projects Certificate

AUDIENCE:

People who lead:

• Departments
• Divisions
• Project teams
• Change initiatives
• Strategic initiatives – like business architects
• IT rollouts and implementations

After completing this series, participants will be able to:

1. Make a choice on the best approach for a project between traditional (waterfall) project or an agile project
2. Understand the role of the project manager through each phase of a project: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
3. Build a common understanding project terminology and techniques
4. Increase a project’s potential by applying project management tools and processes
5. Leverage critical teamwork techniques to get your project team to work together
6. Engage project stakeholders and sponsors
7. Understand when and how to use project templates
8. Describe the difference between project management and project methodology
9. Define project roles and responsibilities
10. Apply common projects tools to
    • Identify stakeholders
    • Initiate a charter
    • Define scope
    • Build a schedule
    • Determine a budget
    • Design communication and risk plans
11. Differentiate between Agile and other frameworks of the philosophy
12. Understand, at a high level, the main agile framework being used in today’s marketplace
13. Determine if additional training in agile techniques would be worthwhile

Price: $1,670.25  Early Bird Pricing: $1,503.00 up to 4 weeks prior to the course start date.

• Course Texts: no texts are used in this course
• Food: Lunch is included in courses that are at least 7 hours in length
• CEU’s: 3.0

If you are registering through the workforce center, you must have your counselor contact IPD directly at institute@metrostate.edu

If your organization has at least 6 participants and you desire to host the class at your site or if you would like to customize this course specifically for your organization, contact Beth Schaefer at 651-999-5834 or beth.schaefer@metrostate.edu

Cancellation Policy:

Class cancellations must be done fourteen full business days before the class start date.  No refunds for cancellations of less than fourteen full business days.  No Shows/Missed Classes – Refunds will not be issued for any missed class.  Late Arrivals/Early Departures – Metropolitan State University reserves the right to decrease continuing education units issued for late arrivals and early departures.  Written confirmation will be sent to you a week before class.  If a class is canceled, you will be contacted by phone, mail, or email.  Metropolitan State University reserves the right to cancel courses due to insufficient enrollment or unforeseen circumstances, such as weather (a full refund will be granted).