Project Management Certificate

• What Is Project Management?

  • Defining tasks, Projects, Programs, and Processes

  • Project Goals

• Project Management Principles

  • PM Approaches: Four-Phase, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban

  • Project Constraints

  • Project Roles

• Initiate – the Foundation

  • Project Charter

  • Project Objectives

  • Project Scope

• How Do We Initiate a Project?

• The Planning Phase

• Logistics of a Project

• Developing Sub-Plans

• Manage the Project

• Skills to Help Manage Projects

  • Communication

  • Conflict Management

  • Scope Creep

• Closure Basics

Analyzing and prioritizing elements of a learning initiative or talent solution helps to ensure a meaningful and relevant learner experience. Effective project management requires being able to plan, organize, direct, and control resources for a finite period to complete specific goals and objectives.

In addition, developing project management skills can equip you to proactively identify roadblocks or constraints that can hinder project completion. Project management skills help you build capacity in critical thinking and problem solving, key areas of competency in every industry.

Upon successful completion of this project management course, you will be able to:

• Communicate project management principles, processes, and roles.

• Establish the project charter necessary for project initiation.

• Establish a project management plan, related sub-plans, and identify constraints.

• Manage a project in accordance with established plans and guidelines.

• Execute the project close-out processes.
  

• Learn essential project management skills and how you can apply them to a TD context.

• Become a skilled project manager who can take on and manage any learning project with ease.

• Practice project management tasks throughout the program in your own personal project.

• Get proven techniques to stay ahead of and solve issues quickly to ensure successful projects, large and small.

• Gain access to ATD-exclusive templates and tools that you can apply to your own work as a project manager.

• Earn an industry-recognized project management certificate, continuing education credits, and an ATD digital badge to share with your networks upon completion of your project management program.

• This certificate in project management is geared toward talent development professionals who may have assumed project management responsibilities or who frequently manage talent development initiatives. You do not have to be a full-time project manager to benefit from this program.

• Others who may benefit from this certificate program include instructional designers, talent development managers, consultants, trainers or facilitators, human resource professionals, and organization development professionals.

• This course is designed for people without prior project management experience.

The project management course consists of 14 hours of instruction. The in-person option is delivered across two eight-hour days, each with a one-hour lunch break. The live online format includes four instructor-led sessions, each lasting three and a half hours.