Project Management Capstone

Planning and managing projects effectively in today’s global economy with geographically dispersed teams requires skilled project managers with modern and effective tools and techniques. This program will help you shift from managing projects by heroics to managing by expectation using predictable and repeatable best practices.

This intensive lab experience will allow you to work on a complex project from beginning to end in a team environment. You’ll use all the skills learned in the previous programs to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close a simulated project — from developing key deliverables to facilitating meetings to justifying decisions for the benefit of key stakeholders.

Under the guidance of a senior project manager, you’ll be given direct feedback and learn techniques to increase efficiency and effectiveness on the job. You will also learn how to use project management software to help provide the needed artifacts that are commonly used in any large-scale project.

This program will help you develop realistic budgets, schedules, and resource plans to forecast demand while providing the necessary real-time insights into project status and risks to optimize the organization’s project portfolio performance and maximize the return on investment.

• Use the design-build-test-deploy approach within other waterfall project management methodologies
• Identify gaps common in many project charters
• Define the functional requirements that address business needs
• Use software to build the WBS and project schedule
• Manage the effects of change on multiple projects
• Assign and resolve resource constraints using resource leveling
• Use software to build dynamic Gantt charts with critical paths identified
• Present and report project status to stakeholders

• Project managers
• Technical leads
• Project portfolio managers
• Resource managers