101 Essentials of Business/Marketing Projects

A Solid Profession

Join the fastest growing profession with 6-figure salaries and strong hiring in all industries. You'll need solid project management techniques to succeed. Our training is recognized world-wide because our students learn the latest techniques and master them by practicing hands-on with an individual instructor.

Learn the basics of Project Management in a step-by-step methodology you can apply to every project.

Learn practical skills to deliver projects that meet business needs on time and within budget.

Gain Microsoft Project skills to schedule accurately, track actual performance, and plan corrective action.

Learn to make effective project presentations that build your credibility.

Learn and practice our 9-step project methodology by textbook reading, watching HD online lectures, and working directly with your personal, PMI-certified instructor.

Essentials of Project Management is a 30 hour course and you can take up to a year to finish.

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Individual Coaching

While you can work at your own pace, you are not alone.  An experienced, PMI-certified project manager will serve as your private, personal instructor. 

During an introductory phone call with your instructor, you will set your own schedule based on your experience, learning style, and needs. 

Your instructor is available when you have questions or want to talk about applying a technique. You will always get an answer within 24 hours to any email you send.

For people starting a PM career or wanting to learn a basic project methodology

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You will learn by managing a project from start to finish, receiving feedback from your instructor on each assignment.

In live presentations made privately to your instructor via webcam, you will practice presenting ideas and proposals to executives and answering their questions.

Interact with your instructor as often as you like, by email, phone, or live web meeting. Get ongoing support for one year after your course ends.

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Hands-on Learning

In each of the modules of this basic course you have reading and a lecture where you learn about one of the steps in the project management process. Then you apply it to a real project case study in a simulation with your instructor who gives you feedback on all your work and will ask you to redo it if it's not correct.

1. You start by meeting with the company president, Dan Morton, to find out his needs. He wants you to deliver the project in two months but is a little vague on the business results he wants, so you have to help him define the scope.
2. Using the scope, you meet with the managers who will be affected by the project to find out their requirements. You turn these into a map of the steps in the project.
3. You gather information on risks and constraints and develop your project charter presentation in PowerPoint. You deliver it to the executives in a live presentation over the Internet with your instructor.
4. Then, you begin the detailed project planning by developing your work breakdown structure in MS Project.  You break the deliverables down into individual assignments for your team members and vendors.
5. Next you sequence the tasks to create an efficient plan.
6. You negotiate with your team members and estimate how long their tasks will take. Some people pad their estimates and you have to apply what you have learned to deal with this.
7. You optimize the overall schedule to make the best possible use of your resources and finish the project as soon as possible.
8. When you present the overall schedule, you need to deal with a conflict between two of the managers who will be affected by your project.
9. You receive status reports from your team members that you use to update the schedule, spot problems and develop solutions. You make a live status report presentation to the executives and discuss the problems and how you will solve them.

$995 tuition +Materials
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This course part of:
Business Proj Certification
Associate PM Certification

Student Comments

Michelle Smalley Lane
“I think the overall understanding of how a project should be evaluated is the most common pitfall. We seem to fall into some of these pitfalls of activity driven projects and projects that are taken off track. I will benefit from the methodology that was taught in this course."

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