Certificates

Project Management Certificate

Stay on time, within budget, and handle your challenges with confidence.

This program emphasizes tools and techniques critical to successful project management through a comprehensive, integrated curriculum based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

Benefits

• Learn step-by-step skills that you can use immediately - from PMP-certified instructors with time-tested experience.
• Further your career by gaining familiarity with the PMBOK.
• Experience face-to-face interaction with instructors and colleagues.
• Enjoy the one-night-a-week program structure.

Program Outline

The seven-unit program follows the guidelines from the PMI, which also awards designations for Project Management Professionals (PMP).

• Unit 1 - Project Planning and Scope Management
  This module reviews the five basic project scope management processes: scope planning, scope definition, project change control, work breakdown structure, and project plan development, as well as ethics and professionalism.
• Unit 2 - Cost and Time Management
  Find out how to develop and calculate schedules using PERT/CPM techniques. Also covered are techniques for estimating, budgeting, monitoring and analyzing costs and the basics of earned-value.
• Unit 3 - Risk Management
  Learn to take a proactive approach to threat and opportunity based on a clear understanding of the powerful nature of both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
• Unit 4 - Human Resources/ Communications
  We will explore the various leadership styles, ways to build high-performance teams, innovative methods to resolve conflict, effective motivation concepts, and communication techniques.
• Unit 5 - Quality Management
  Discover how quality planning,assurance and control concepts integrate with project management practices to create a system for implementing quality management at the process and project levels.
• Unit 6 - Contracts and Procurement
  Gain an overview of all phases of contracting, including requirements development, solicitation, administration and closeout. Select the right types of contracts for your project.
• Unit 7 - Integration of Project Management Concepts
  Get the skills necessary to integrate and apply the concepts presented in this series, using a customized case study.
• Program Project
  Throughout the program, you will complete a project that integrates and applies lessons from each unit. By the time you graduate, your resulting work is a portfolio piece that demonstrates your competency as a Project Manager.

Textbooks & Materials

One of the two textbooks is included in the tuition. Please purchase the following text from the bookseller of your choice.

1. PMP Study Guide, Deluxe Edition, 2007 Edition
   Kim Heldman, Claudia Baca & Patti Jansen
   ISBN: 978-0-470-15251-5

Our Students

Students who have attended our certificate program are employed by the organizations listed below (partial list):

• Abacus Direct
• Agilent Technologies
• American Family Insurance
• Amgen, Inc.
• Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Arrow Electronics
• Avaya, Inc.
• Belaire Excavating
• COBE Labs
• Colorado Dept. of Labor & Employment
• Colorado Dept. of Revenue
• Colorado Natural Gas
• EchoStar Communications
• Excel Mechanical Systems
• Exempla Healthcare
• Fidelity National Financial
• First Data Corporation
• Gambro, Inc.
• Great West Healthcare
• Hewlett Packard
• IBM
• Intermountain Electric
• Johns-Manville
• National Park Service
• Nextel Communications
• Oppenheimer Funds
• PeopleSoft
• Quantum Corporation
• Time-Warner Telecom
• UPS
• Upsher-Smith Laboratories
• Wells Fargo