Course Catalog

Project Management Training Courses

Practitioner Level Project Management Training Courses

Fast Start® In Project Management
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS1000)

Participants learn state-of-the-art techniques for developing comprehensive project plans, getting management buy-in, and estimating and scheduling project tasks with accuracy and sophistication. They build work breakdown structures and skillfully apply limited resources to their project plans. In addition, they rehearse dynamic modeling to handle surprise variables.

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Making Projects Work
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS3000)

This workshop examines how to serve as a successful bridge between a project team, customers, and sponsors. Participants learn techniques for making difficult requests and influencing people outside their scope of power. They also learn how to use a negotiating and contracting model to guarantee common understanding of a project as well as ownership of a final deal.

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Maximizing Project Success Through People
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4500)

Our most effective tool for achieving project success is our relationships. And since we are the common thread in all of our relationships, it makes sense that the process of improving our skills should begin with us. Through understanding "how we are with others" and "how we are with ourselves", we can manage any project to a successful outcome.

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Microsoft® Project 2007
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS1020)

This course moves project managers from using Microsoft® Project as a static tool for creating up-front project plans to a dynamic tool for managing the entire project lifecycle. Participants practice viewing projects from a 30,000-foot level by examining the status of task details, reallocating resources, and re-estimating milestones when unexpected events threaten a timetable or budget, and creating informative status reports.

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Advanced Level Project Management Training Courses

Advanced Project Leadership
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
20 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4081)

This workshop teaches structured, respectful approaches for dealing with awkward or complicated people issues, boosting team morale, and motivating team members toward higher performance. Topics includes how to confront hard workers who are making critical errors, how to refocus people that deviate from priority tasks to pursue less urgent activities, and many more challenging issues.

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Advanced Project Management
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS7000)

Time. Cost. Scope. Participants learn to keep these three dimensions in harmony across multiple projects amidst unexpected events. They practice shifting resources among projects. They also perform earned-value calculations--a sophisticated way to pinpoint whether projects will end on time or behind schedule. They also analyze project results to identify areas for improvement and opportunities to redefine "best practice."

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Estimating and Risk Management
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS5000)

Estimating and risk management are two of the more difficult areas for project managers to master. Participants learn to estimate projects using a variety of top down and bottom up methods. These techniques will be invaluable in estimating projects for yearly budget cycles and for establishing initial project time and cost baselines. In addition, this workshop provides best practice methods of identifying, analyzing, and response planning to risks.

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Project Management Simulation
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS6100)

Project managers work in teams to shepherd a 30-week project to completion via a computer simulation. Each team faces real-life decision variables such as budget cuts, expanding scope, a competitor's surprise product launch, a team member who becomes ill, and changes in a project sponsor. As participants take risks in handling each surprise, they receive instant feedback and have the opportunity to make adjustments.

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Other Project Management Training Courses

Creating High Performance Project Teams
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4000)

To be successful, people must learn how to work in teams and collaborate with one another, not just use a tool. This workshop teaches project managers how to fully utilize the talented individuals in their project teams to achieve project and organizational success.

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Estimating for Project Managers
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS7100)

This workshop focuses on the best practices and techniques used in estimation, ensuring participants become more proficient at estimating the parameters of a project's time, cost and performance. From critical concepts and estimation challenges to detailed methods and team dynamics, Estimating for Project Managers is for anyone interested in learning more about estimating.

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Getting Project Results Through Contract Resources
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4091)

This workshop walks participants through all phases of the procurement process, giving them the skills needed to effectively contract outside resources while avoiding the potential traps and pitfalls along the way. It also covers information concerning organizational planning and staff acquisition that is critical to obtaining the right people.

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PMP® Exam Preparation
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9000)

This workshop focuses on key concepts in each of the processes and knowledge areas. It also covers the recently added professional responsibility sections. Participants answer sample exam questions and recognize the critical components involved in preparing to take the certification exam. The final workshop exercise involves creating a project plan for preparing for and passing the PMP® Certification exam.

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Project Management Boot Camp
5 days Traditional | 40 hours Virtual
35 PDUs (PMI ID SYS7110)

Project Management Boot Camp is a highly intensive, five-day workshop that's jam packed with tightly integrated, interactive sessions that impart core tactical and strategic project management imperatives. This workshop immerses professional project managers in the five key process groups and 38 core competencies associated with effective project management practice.

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Project Management Executive Overview
1 days Traditional | 8 hours Virtual
4 PDUs (PMI ID SYS0500)

Company executives walk away from this informative course with the necessary skills and knowledge to handle important issues throughout the project management process, including strengthening project managers' competencies, stimulating productivity, improving employee interaction and sustaining expertise.

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Project Management for Information Systems
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS2000)

Introductory in nature yet very comprehensive, this highly interactive workshop is designed to give participants a solid foundation in the concepts, tools and techniques of formal project management. Students not only acquire technique-based proficiencies, but also explore and practice essential people skills and teamwork.

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Project Management for Team Members
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9090)

This two-day workshop provides participants with a thorough working knowledge of project management, so they can better understand their roles and responsibilities. The workshop enhances the ability of team members to assist the project manager in the planning and executing of projects.

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Project Management Overview
1 days Traditional | 8 hours Virtual
7 PDUs (PMI ID SYS0600)

This one-day course teaches students the significance of effective project management, how their role can impact future results; best practice tools, techniques; which areas can benefit from professional principles; and what it takes to build and be part of a world-class project management team.

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Quality for Project Managers
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS8400)

The purpose of this course is to help project managers better understand the important topic of project quality, as well as what they can do during the management of projects to ensure final deliverables measure up to the quality desired. Specifically, this course teaches project managers how to better identify quality requirements, focus their teams on quality, develop and execute a quality plan, and how to monitor and control the results being achieved.

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Risk Management for Project Managers
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS7140)

Comprehensive in scope and designed for all stakeholders who want to proactively mitigate the effects of risk, Risk Management for Project Managers covers all the fundamental aspects related to risk management, including planning, identification, assessment, quantification, analysis, mitigation and tracking & reporting.

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The Politics of Project Management
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS7120)

Politically savvy project management professionals know how to build long-term client relationships. In doing so, they often earn a reputation for delivering results as well as a seat at the table of corporate decision-making. Project management professionals need to complement their technical proficiency with these political skills, and this workshop dramatically strengthens one's ability to build high-level support, develop key alliances and influence critical decision makers.

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Thriving on Conflict
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS4050)

This course teaches participants how to make conflict work for them - not against them - in a variety of situations. By overcoming this major barrier to success, project managers become more effective in their efforts to achieve project goals and organizational objectives.

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Virtual Teams
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS7150)

Project managers must find ways to help their teams work together effectively - especially in today's highly-dispersed work environments. This workshop instructs virtual teams how to optimize performance through greater team dynamics, align business and project goals with key performance metrics, measure results and build solid and lasting foundations of trust.

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Business Analysis Training Courses

Practitioner Level Business Analysis Training Courses

Fast Start® in Business Analysis
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
24 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9011) | 24 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-001)

In this workshop, analysts identify and document symptoms of broken business processes. They map customers' needs through skillful interviews and observation, unearthing the "unspoken" requirements that can undermine a project if ignored. They document these needs in detail and rehearse how to present requirements - and recommended business process changes - to management.

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Mastering the Requirements Process
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
21 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9100) | 24 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-002)

Participants learn how to ask the right questions, capture stakeholder requests, model existing systems and write quality statements of requirements. By the end of this course, they have a good command of the basic concepts that greatly enhance their ability to achieve project success.

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Survival Skills for Analysts
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
16 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9020) | 14 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-003)

This course teaches analysts what types of communication and analysis project managers need and when. Participants also learn techniques for facilitating effective meetings with technical people or customers; accurately appraising group dynamics; and listening for concerns germane to project success.

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Advanced Level Business Analysis Training Courses

Advanced Business Analysis
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
21 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9150) | 24 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-004)

This workshop is specifically designed for business analysts and project managers looking to improve the way they plan, manage, analyze and document requirements for complex software systems. Students learn to leverage the Unified Modeling Language and Information Engineering to improve requirements analysis, enhance quality and reduce project time and cost.

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Bringing Business Solutions to Life
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9080) | 16 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-005)

This workshop is specifically designed for business analysts and project managers looking to improve the way they plan, manage, analyze and document requirements for complex software systems. Students learn to leverage the Unified Modeling Language and Information Engineering to improve requirements analysis, enhance quality and reduce project time and cost.

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Business Analysis Simulation
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9350) | 16 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-006)

Analysts participate in a "reenactment" of an emergency scenario. After receiving a briefing, they interview key players to learn about a breakdown in a critical business process. They define the requirements for fixing the problem and propose the best course of action. Participants hone their skills and speed to prepare for unexpected, untimely, real-life surprises.

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Other Business Analysis Training Courses

Business Analysis Boot Camp
5 days Traditional | 40 hours Virtual
35 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9400) | 40 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-013)

This intensive five-day Business Analysis Boot Camp covers both tactical and strategic imperatives of the business analysis discipline. Students learn how to properly focus their attention on important issues, opportunities, benefits, stakeholders, scope and objectives; and will broaden their knowledge of the requirements process through proven elicitation, discovery, documentation and validation techniques.

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Business Analysis for Non Business Analysts
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9410) | 16 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-010)

This workshop begins by teaching the techniques within the Initiation and Analysis phases required to effectively define a project's scope. Students also learn how to perform a "current state" analysis, and how best to interview users to elicit requirements about the "future state" solution. Participants then spend two days focusing on later project phases.

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Business Analysis Overview
1 days Traditional | 8 hours Virtual
7 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9300) | 8 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-011)

A one-day workshop that aims to provide a realistic and interactive overview of what business analysis is, and what a business analyst does in the framework of defining system solutions. This workshop will use a case study approach to allow participants to perform a current state analysis to identify the "as is" situation, interview users to elicit requirements about the "future state", and write requirements for the solution.

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CBAP® Exam Preparation
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9430) | 16 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-014)

This workshop is designed to assist the participant in applying for the CBAP® certification and learn best practices for preparing and passing the exam. It focuses attention on key concepts throughout the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) version 2.0 for the greatest preparation efficiency and effectiveness.

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Estimating for Business Analysts
1 days Traditional | 8 hours Virtual
7 PDUs (PMI ID SYS9420) | 8 CDUs (IIBA ID E022-012)

This one-day, hands on workshop teaches planning and estimating techniques to business analysts. Participants learn to properly identify project deliverables, determine the key activities needed to produce those deliverables, and then derive the level of effort and duration for each activity.

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Agile Development Training Courses

Agile Development Training Courses

Fast Start® In Agile Development
3 days Traditional | 24 hours Virtual
21 PDUs (PMI ID SYS0100)

This course is specifically designed to provide a strong agile foundation to project leads transitioning to an agile development methodology. An experiential approach and deep immersion into key driving principles enables teams to understand why agile works, not just how it works.

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Going Agile
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS0120)

With illuminating exercises that simulate an actual agile project, Going Agile teaches participants everything they need to know to make a successful transition to agile. Instructors begin with a brief overview of agile, and then delve deeply into best-practice techniques, agile project lifecycles, requirements building, team dynamics and much more.

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Making Agile Work
2 days Traditional | 16 hours Virtual
14 PDUs (PMI ID SYS0110)

Making Agile Work explores the dynamic and creative nature of agile development, helping students to become more comfortable with the change, ambiguity and cultural nuances that underlie the agile approach. Group dynamics are key to agile success, so students also master the essentials of understanding others, communication and teamwork.

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