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Great Project Managers are Built, not Born
 
 
...providing you with the building blocks of successful project management!

Building Your Project Management Core Competencies
When you strengthen your essential project management skills, you and your team will accomplish more, in less time, with greater reliability and quality. To succeed as a project manager, you need management and organizational skills, team leadership skills, and skills using software support tools such as SharePoint and Microsoft Project.

 
Essential Project Management Skills
 
Adhering to project management best practices is the foundation of project management success. Sharpen your project management skills through the effective application of PM methodologies.

 
Leadership Skills
 
The ability to inspire and direct a team ultimately delivers faster results at a higher success rate. Along with guiding the process, the complete project manager has the ability to structure a project, measure the team's capabilities and exploit individual talents to achieve maximum performance.

 
Analytical Skills
 
Being able to analyze and identify the requirements of clients and stakeholders—whether internal or external—is critical to determining the right solutions.

 
Interpersonal Skills
 
Often referred to as “people skills,” interpersonal skills are critical to the success of every project. These skills include resolving conflicts, managing time wisely, and communicating effectively through daily collaboration, persuasive presentations, and in writing.

 
Software Tools for Project Management
 
Tools such as SharePoint and Microsoft Project help you organize and manage project details and greatly assist you in completing projects on schedule and on budget.

 
Learning Tree considers the following courses essential for any project manager:
 
Professional Project Management Credentials Training
Preparing for the CAPM Exam
3601In this 3-day course, you learn the terms and definitions of the PMBOK® Guide and prepare for the CAPM® exam. You also learn to decipher the processes and knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide-Fourth Edition, identify significant steps of the project life cycle, evaluate your exam preparedness and create a personalized plan for self-study.   More »
 
Preparing for the PMP Exam
276In this 5-day course, you gain knowledge and skills to help you prepare for the newly revised PMP credential exam. Through practice exams, workshops and overnight study, you learn essential PMBOK® Guide terminology, tools and techniques. You create a personal preparation strategy and a study plan for ultimate exam success.   More »
 
Preparing for the PMI-ACP Exam
3605In this 3-day course you gain the skills necessary to prepare for the PMI-ACP credential exam, validating your experience as an Agile practitioner. You will learn to navigate the tools and techniques exam sections and knowledge and skills exam areas, align your Agile development experience with PMI’s six domains of practice and create a personalized plan for self-study to focus your efforts from after the course to your exam date.   More »
 
Preparing for the PgMP Exam
920In this 4-day course, you prepare for the PMI PgMP certification exam. Through a series of workshops and simulated exams, you learn how to align your program management experience with PgMP terminology and definitions, navigate the processes and knowledge areas of The Standard for Program Management and analyze methods essential for PgMP exam success.   More »
 
Preparing for the PMI-SP Exam
248This 3-day course provides the skills required to schedule and deliver critical projects on time while helping you prepare for the PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification. You learn how to construct project network diagrams to identify the sequence of work, calculate Critical Path to determine project duration, and effectively assign resources to build a feasible baseline schedule.   More »
 
Preparing for the PMI-RMP Exam
286In this 4-day course, you gain the skills to help you prepare for the PMI-RMP exam. Through identifying and measuring risks in project development and implementation you learn to quantify risks and create risk response strategies. You also learn how to apply customizable, industry-robust templates to create a Risk Management Plan and Risk register, and monitor risk triggers to control uncertainties and maximize project payoff.   More »
 
PRINCE2® Practitioner Certification
177This 5-day course provides a comprehensive overview of the PRINCE2® methodology, recognized as a leading best practice approach for planning, controlling and completing projects of all sizes and types. You gain the knowledge required for both the PRINCE2® Foundation Exam, given on Day 4 of the course, and the PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam, given on Day 5.   More »
 
MSP® Practitioner Certification
3631In this 5-day course you gain the knowledge required to take both the MSP Foundation and Practitioner Exams. You learn how to apply the seven MSP principles and nine Governance Themes throughout the life cycle of the program, identify and define programs that support your organization’s strategic objectives, and manage a program to deliver the right capabilities and attain measurable benefits.   More »
 
Certified ScrumMaster
1810In this 2-day course, you learn the basics of the Scrum framework, including team roles and activities to ensure that you can be an effective member of a Scrum team. This Scrum Alliance® certified course taught by Certified Scrum Trainers provides the fundamental essentials needed to prepare you for the Certified ScrumMaster evaluation.You also learn to scale Scrum to large, multi-continent projects consisting of large teams, manage the production of potentially shippable product increments and deliver fully functioning applications on time with effective sprint and release planning.   More »
 
Certified Scrum Product Owner
1811In this 2-day course, you learn the Scrum terminology, practices and principles that enable you to successfully fulfill the role of Scrum product owner. This Scrum Alliance® certified course taught by Certified Scrum Trainers provides the knowledge needed to achieve the Certified Scrum Product Owner designation. You also learn to build a requirements document through the product backlog and user stories, serve as the liaison between the development team and project stakeholders, manage a product release and measure the success of a development project.   More »
 
Project Management Foundation Training
Project Management: Skills for Success
296Through a media-enhanced, simulated case study, you gain the skills to successfully plan, manage and deliver projects using a 6-step process. You learn how to implement risk management techniques and deploy mitigation strategies, estimate and schedule task work, duration and costs with confidence, and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, you have access to templates and checklists for use back at the office.   More »
 
Project Management for Software Development
340This 4-day course provides the tools you need to effectively organize and select process choices, create realistic plans, and build and manage an accomplished team through every phase of the development cycle. You gain practical experience identifying external factors that dictate success, matching your project's needs to the most effective development model, and developing the skills for tracking and controlling the project deliverables.   More »
 
Project Management Core Competencies Training
Preparing for the PMI-SP Exam
248This 3-day course provides the skills required to schedule and deliver critical projects on time while helping you prepare for the PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) certification. You learn how to construct project network diagrams to identify the sequence of work, calculate Critical Path to determine project duration, and effectively assign resources to build a feasible baseline schedule.   More »
 
Project Budgeting and Estimating
923This 3-day course provides the skills to estimate realistic budgets for completing planned project scope and to deliver projects in or under budget. You learn how to estimate tasks using activity-based costing, quantify risk to justify contingency funding and produce a defensible rate of return, and leverage Earned Value Analysis to determine project status, forecasts and any necessary corrections.   More »
 
Preparing for the PMI-RMP Exam
286In this 4-day course, you gain the skills to help you prepare for the PMI-RMP exam. Through identifying and measuring risks in project development and implementation you learn to quantify risks and create risk response strategies. You also learn how to apply customizable, industry-robust templates to create a Risk Management Plan and Risk register, and monitor risk triggers to control uncertainties and maximize project payoff.   More »
 
Developing User Requirements
315In this 4-day course, you participate in an immersive, simulated case study, providing you with the practical skills necessary to write well-formed and validated user requirements. You learn how to organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document, prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project, and analyze requirements with a process mapping methodology.   More »
 
User Requirements for Software Development
218This 4-day course provides the necessary skills to capture software requirements using clearly defined processes. You are immersed in a user requirements environment, providing you with the practical experience to build a use case-based requirements model, model user interfaces using mock-ups and develop a data model.   More »
 
Project Team Leadership
346In this 4-day course, you transition to a leader who can inspire a diverse team to work together and deliver customer success. You learn how to develop a strong team identity and empower others to act through vision and purpose, forster positive and productive team communication and effectively manage conflict. At the end of the course, you take away a project leadership best practices handbook and a personal development plan for use back at the office.   More »
 
MSP® Practitioner Certification
3631In this 5-day course you gain the knowledge required to take both the MSP Foundation and Practitioner Exams. You learn how to apply the seven MSP principles and nine Governance Themes throughout the life cycle of the program, identify and define programs that support your organization’s strategic objectives, and manage a program to deliver the right capabilities and attain measurable benefits.   More »
 
Project Management Advanced Skills Training
Complex Project Management
287Through an intensive project simulation, you experience real-world situations in which your decisions impact the outcome of your project. You learn how to incorporate the emerging science of complexity thinking into your project management strategies, apply a unique complexity assessment model and an adaptive four-step process to strategic projects, and minimize uncertainty by leveraging best practices from Critical Chain, Agile and Lean approaches. You also have access to productivity tools and templates for use back at work.   More »
 
Agile Project Management with Scrum
918In this 3-day course, you learn how to apply Agile and Scrum techniques to manage software development projects. Through immersive and evolving case studies and other experiential activities, you acquire the practical knowledge and skills to plan, manage and close a software development project in reduced time using Agile practices.   More »
 
Building a Project Management Office
3610In this 3-day course, you gain the skills to develop a Project Management Office (PMO) to improve project consistency, efficiency and effectiveness in a multi-project environment. You learn how to structure a PMO that provides a means of centralization and standardization and greater project oversight. You also gain the skills to align project selection criteria with strategic organizational objectives and provide ongoing project management support through mentoring and coaching.   More »
 
Systems Integration Project Management
1805In this 3-day course, you learn how to effectively manage the unique challenges of integrating systems and leading the teams involved. You also learn to select the most appropriate business and technical approach to a systems integration (SI) project, develop a realistic and achievable plan to reflect the needs of project stakeholders, and facilitate the evaluation of project success based on realized business benefits.   More »
 
Managing Global Projects
3620In this 3-day course, you learn how to effectively manage a global project. You also learn to facilitate effective cross-cultural communication, create an efficient structure to achieve global project success and incorporate project closure best practices across a geographically dispersed project.   More »
 
Project Management Systems & Tools Training
Microsoft Project 2010 Comprehensive Introduction
3702In this 3-day course, you learn to effectively create a project plan, track progress, adjust resources and generate dynamic reports in a hands-on learning environment with Microsoft Project 2010. Specifically, you gain the knowledge to build and optimize your project plan through best practice principles, create and modify calendars in order to control the project schedule, and structure dashboards and reports to effectively share project data.   More »
 
Microsoft Project 2007 Comprehensive Introduction
299In this 3-day course, you learn how to solve typical project and business problems using the planning, control and reporting features of Microsoft Project. You build a project plan, enter tasks and develop calendars. You also track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliverables.   More »
 
Microsoft Project Server 2010
924In this 3-day course, you gain the skills to leverage Project Server 2010 to achieve organization, centralization and consistency for simple to complex projects across the entire project life cycle. Specifically, you learn to create and manage enterprise project data using Microsoft Project Server 2010, develop project plans using Project Web App (PWA) and Microsoft Project Professional, and configure Project Server to track progress, monitor performance and analyze trends.   More »
 
SharePoint for Project Management
919In this 3-day course, you acquire the knowledge and skills to effectively manage projects with SharePoint. You build a SharePoint Project Management Information System (PMIS), create and customize a SharePoint site for effective project collaboration, monitor and analyze the project schedule, budget and milestones in a SharePoint site, and generate on-demand project status reports.   More »
 

 
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