Project managers and others wishing to advance their skills will value these courses the cover “specific areas of knowledge” including risk management, managing multiple projects, earned value management, requirements management and more. All programs are 2-day classroom or 12-hour live eLearning, except where noted. They are also available onsite at a location of your choice and can be tailored to meet your specific needs.

Advanced Project Quality Management
Planning, Assurance, Control and Improvement
This program is designed to equip participants with the knowledge necessary to effectively plan, control and improve quality of individual projects and corporate project management processes.

Advanced Project Risk Management
Working with Uncertainty in Projects
The goal of this program is to teach specific knowledge needed to set up risk management in your projects, and implement risk management processes to achieve consistent and predictable results in organizations where a higher level of risk management is required.

Advanced Project Procurement Management
Buyer/Seller Relationships and Contracts
The purpose of this course is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of contracts so they can properly select, implement, and manage contracts. If they are the drafters of the contract, the course will help them to develop contracts that best support the project objectives. If they are the recipients, the course will provide them with guidelines and tips on what terms and conditions to watch for or ask to be included that will help both parties be successful.

Vendor and Quality Management
Managing Relationships for Successful Outcomes
After the selection and procurement of a vendor has occurred the project manager assumes the responsibility for managing the vendor relationship. Managing vendor performance and the vendor relationship can make or break a project. This program deals with the challenging task of delivering a successful project involving vendors.

Program Management
Integrating Projects and Processes
This course is aligned with PMI’s new Program Management Standard. The program equips participants with the skills and techniques to effectively navigate creation, implementation and ongoing operations of program management and, in some cases, product management processes within the context of the organization.

Critical Chain Management
The Theory of Constraints Approach to Managing Projects
A few years ago, many organizations would have been thrilled if most projects were delivered on time, on budget and within scope. Today, the competitive challenge and increasing demands from customers are driving organizations to look for more. More projects must be completed, with drastic reductions in cycle time using the same resources. Developed as part of the world-renowned "Theory of Constraints" Management Model, this workshop is an indispensable program for project and resource managers, project leaders, executives and members of the Project Management Office who are seeking extraordinary improvements in project cycle time.

Preventing, Recovering and Managing Troubled Projects
Get Derailed Projects Back on Track
The focus of this program is to help the professional project manager more rapidly recognize the potential for trouble—first in order to prevent problems, second to recover those projects experiencing troubles, and third to manage to completion recovered projects. This course does not focus on “failed” projects but rather on projects headed for failure without appropriate intervention.

Project Portfolio Management
Increase the Return on Your Organization’s Project Management Investment
This course is aligned with PMI’s new Portfolio Management Standard. This program defines the strategy, processes, information, analysis and deliverables of an effective portfolio management approach. It provides participants with knowledge of the components, importance and challenges of implementing enterprise-level project portfolio management (PPM) based upon the organization’s strategic business goals.

Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)
Incorporate Best Practices for Program and Project Management Systems
The emphasis of this program is on a government application according to the latest government EVMS principles and concepts and in accordance with the most recent Department of Defense (DOD) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines and regulations for earned value management. The concepts may also be applied to any project whether government or commercial.

Requirements Management
Managing Project Scope from Concept to Completion
Poor requirements definition and lack of adequate change control procedures to requirements and scope are the primary contributors to project difficulty and failure. This course will provide you with the knowledge required to minimize or avoid these pitfalls.

Achieving Project Management Excellence Using Best Practices
Presented by Dr. Harold Kerzner, Renowned Project Management Expert
This course addresses how best practices can accelerate the organization’s maturity process, how to identify and overcome some of the barriers to implementation and how to propel the journey to achieving excellence in project management. Dr. Kerzner will provide insights on:

• new techniques companies are using for capturing best practices;
• why companies are implementing best practices libraries, knowledge repositories, project management offices and centers of excellence;
• how companies are approaching improving the project management processes.

Managing Multiple Projects
Increase Project Throughput
Does your organization do more than one single project at a time? Does your organization have limitations to the type and amount of human and other resources that are available to complete project assignments? Are your projects taking longer and longer to complete, and with less than optimal results being delivered? Then this is the program for you! This hands-on advanced workshop will address the broader aspects of managing multiple projects within the context of program or product management.

Organization and People Change Management (OPCM)
Moving Beyond Installation to Realization
Selecting the right project through well-disciplined portfolio management and effective project execution and best practices is only part of the recipe for success. As companies mature in project management they begin to realize a major gap in the process: successful implementation happens through committed users. This program examines a process for OPCM and how it integrates into the five project management process groups.

The Project Management Office
Building Block for Achieving and Managing PM Effectiveness
This course addresses the complex issues of how to integrate a project management office (PMO) into the organization. Working with our experts, you will assess the needs of your organization for a PMO, be ready to design the kind of PMO that will be most effective for you and define the path to PM maturity and competency.

OPM3® Standard Knowledge Course
Preparing to Work with Organizational Project Management Maturity
If you are seeking in-depth knowledge on PMI’s OPM3® standard or even considering working as a consultant or assessor in the new and emerging field of the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3), this program will provide you with the necessary knowledge to build upon for future success. The course, provided in cooperation with DNV, is an excellent way to prepare for the entrance exam, the first step to becoming a PMI? Certified OPM3 Assessor or Consultant.