Florida A&M University has partnered with Pathstream to deliver this online program – The Project Management Certificate is a flexible program that can be completed in 6 months. You’ll be equipped with project management skills and emerge prepared for the industry-recognized Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) exam. You’ll complete hands-on assignments to develop important project documents, budgets and timelines. You will also learn how to manage and communicate with project stakeholders and mitigate risks. Finally, you’ll master Agile methodologies and practice using those skills to manage a real technical project. This certificate is a Career Launch program, designed for employees with no prior experience. Expect to spend 10-15 hours a week, with individualized support along the way. Career Launch certificates provide in-demand skills.
Why Project Management?
Course 1:
Foundations of Project Management
Course 2:
Effective Project Planning
Course 3:
Risk Management and Integration
Course 4:
Agile Project Management
Course 1: Foundations of Project Management
In this course, you will be introduced to the foundations of project management. You will become familiar with the role of the project manager and the leadership skills needed to be successful as a project manager. You will learn essential information about projects, project life cycles, project management processes and methodologies, and you will explore stakeholder management and create a plan for engaging with stakeholders. You will be introduced to Asana, a leading tool in the project management industry.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a project outline using project management software.
- Practice preparing a project charter that defines a project, guides the project activities, and serves as an agreement between stakeholders.
- Practice creating a scope statement based on the sponsor’s requirements that details what is in scope and out of scope and identifies objectives, constraints, assumptions, acceptance criteria and deliverables.
- Create a work breakdown structure using project management software.
Course 2: Effective Project Planning
In this course, you’ll use tools to schedule and budget a project. You’ll learn about resourcing, developing kickoff activities and communicating with a project team to take your project management planning to the next level.
Learning Outcomes:
- Use Asana to create a project schedule.
- Manage a project budget.
- Create a team performance assessment tool.
- Communicate with a project team using project management software.
Course 3: Risk, Quality, and Integration Management
This course will teach you how to address risk and ensure quality in your projects. You’ll use tools to make reports and manage changes. Finally, you’ll learn how to close a project and conduct a retrospective.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify project risks and effectively plan and implement risk responses.
- Create status updates and direct and manage project work for individual team members.
- Record knowledge in a lessons learned register.
- Evaluate impact of change requests.
Course 4: Agile Project Management
In this course you will learn the fundamentals of Agile project management methodologies. The learning experience is highly interactive and hands-on, providing you with the opportunity to learn by doing. You will begin by exploring the fundamentals of Agile, including frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP. You will then learn about Scrum in detail, covering key concepts, such as sprints, adaptive planning and estimation. You will also learn how to conduct daily scrums, retrospectives and other key meetings to successfully plan and manage a project. While learning these concepts and frameworks, you will practice key project management related soft skills, such as how to plan for unexpected challenges and proactively manage issues that arise on a team.
Learning Outcomes:
- Manage a technical project using key Agile methodologies, concepts, tools and frameworks.
- Create a Kanban board to organize sprints and share information with the project team.
- Create user stories in Asana.
- Groom a backlog and estimate user stories.
Course 1:
Foundations of Project Management
In this course, you will be introduced to the foundations of project management. You will become familiar with the role of the project manager and the leadership skills needed to be successful as a project manager. You will learn essential information about projects, project life cycles, project management processes and methodologies, and you will explore stakeholder management and scope management. You will be introduced to Asana, a leading tool in the project management industry.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a project outline using project management software.
- Practice preparing a project charter that defines a project, guides the project activities, and serves as an agreement between stakeholders.
- Practice creating a scope statement based on the sponsor’s requirements that details what is in scope and out of scope and identifies objectives, constraints, assumptions, acceptance criteria and deliverables.
- Create a work breakdown structure using project management software.
Course 2:
Effective Project Planning
In this course, you’ll use tools to schedule and budget a project. You’ll learn about resourcing, developing kickoff activities and communicating with a project team to take your project management planning to the next level.
Learning Outcomes:
- Use Asana to create a project schedule.
- Manage a project budget.
- Create a team performance assessment tool.
- Communicate with a project team using project management software.
Course 3:
Risk Management and Integration
This course will teach you how to address risk in your projects. You’ll use tools to make reports and manage changes. Finally, you’ll learn how to close a project and conduct a retrospective.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify project risks and effectively plan and implement risk responses.
- Create status updates and direct and manage project work for individual team members.
- Record knowledge in a lessons learned register.
- Evaluate impact of change requests.
Course 4:
Agile Project Management
Learning Outcomes:
- Manage a technical project using key Agile methodologies, concepts, tools and frameworks.
- Create a Kanban board to organize sprints and share information with the project team.
- Create user stories in Asana.
- Groom a backlog and estimate user stories.
What You’ll Learn:
After completing this program, you’ll be ready to:
- Create a project outline, project charter, work breakdown structure and scope statement
- Develop a project schedule in Asana
- Set up communications with team members and stakeholders
- Plan and manage risk
- Manage a technical project using Agile methodologies, tools and frameworks
- No required times to log in. Complete lessons at times during the week that work for you. Keep up with deadlines to stay on track and complete in 6 months.
- Complete real business projects in an online platform and get individualized support and feedback from instructors.
- Practice using project management software directly in the learning platform. No separate downloads.
- Explore the real work that project managers and operations specialists do on the job and apply those skills to your own career.
- Access individualized career coaching to help you get promoted and advance professionally.
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What is Pathstream?
Pathstream is a provider of digital skills training based in Silicon Valley. We partner with leading tech companies and universities like Florida A&M University to develop programs that prepare people for in-demand jobs.