Project Management - Planning, Scheduling, and Control

Project managers have a lot to think about: project scope and team dynamics, schedule and cost constraints, executive stakeholders, and future-state requirements that define success. The environment keeps moving, too. Some projects still run best on a plan, others demand iteration, and AI tools have arrived in the project manager's workflow whether or not anyone planned for them.

This program gives you an applied and effective grounding in project management and teaches techniques that help you plan, implement, and complete projects of all sizes with the results you want, on time, and within budget.

You will work on one realistic case study across all three days with your table team, building the charter, scope, schedule, estimates, and risk plan that you then have to execute, defend, and recover when things go wrong.

You will leave able to lead projects with a proven phase-based approach, adapt it for agile and hybrid delivery, and put AI to work with judgement, knowing where it helps, where it gets in the way, and what never changes about a project manager's accountability.

• Understand the roles and responsibilities of a successful project manager
• Learn how to use a step-by-step, phase-based approach for successful projects and how to adapt it in agile and hybrid environments
• Improve estimation of project costs, resources, time, and overall project management tracking
• Manage scope change through special methods, tools, and techniques
• Assess and improve your current project management system, both the process and software
• Apply AI tools to project management work with sound judgement about their limits
• Initiate, plan, execute, control, and close out projects effectively

Participants leave with:

• A complete portfolio of project artifacts they built themselves over three days
• The full template packet (charts, WBS, schedule, risk register, status report, change request, and more)
• A current mental model - PMBOK, agile fluency, AI literacy
• The judgement to scale the toolkit to the project rather than the reverse
• The credential applicable toward the Master's Certificate in Project Management and three other CPED certificates

New and experienced project managers; program managers; project team leaders; team members; business operations supervisors and team leads who run projects without the title.