Professional Development

Project Management

Overview
This course introduces concepts that project managers must understand to be successful in managing a project team, as well as managing more complex and demanding projects.

Who Should Register for Project Management?
This course is appropriate for all members of project teams including analysts, managers and staff. In addition, this course has been beneficial for administrative staff, assistants, business analysts, consultants, database specialists, engineers and social workers, among other industries.

Objectives
In the first two sessions of the course, students will learn the basics of project management and some of the tools and techniques to help manage projects smoothly and successfully, such as:

* The essentials necessary for project success
* The stages of project management
* Defining a vision and a mission for the project
* Setting measurable objectives
* Assessing resources and constraints
* Creating and managing a project plan
* Dealing with change

This part of the course prepares any manager to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate projects of all kinds, thus reducing stress and ineffective communication while increasing efficiency and success.

In the final three sessions of the course, students will be exposed to project management practices that require both the hard skills of project management and the soft skills of constituent management, focusing on traditional project management techniques and tools as employed on complex and troubled projects. The matrix design of project teams requires frequent and concise communication to the project team members, project sponsors and interdependent project teams.

Project Management fulfills the 35 hour education requirement for those interested in taking the PMP certification exam through the Project Management Institute. For more information about the exam, visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Registration Fee*
$1750 / $1400 for University of Illinois alumni, employees or students
*Subject to change

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Section 1 (1009)
  Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
October 17 - November 14, 2009
  Course Fee: $1750
  Registration Deadline: Friday, October 16, 2009
  Instructor(s): James Erickson, Wes Helms, James Hogg
  Location: University of Illinois at Chicago
1337 South Halsted
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Room: 380
 
 

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