Courses tagged with 'Project Management'

This course is designed for new and experienced project managers who are looking to leverage best practices in agile project management. Agile Project Management describes a disciplined process for managing projects using various agile methods such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD). This training will significantly increase your overall versatility as a project manager, improve collaboration skills, and develop your ability to manage complexity and change.

Climate change is one of the biggest risks facing governments, businesses, societies and ecosystems around the world. Project managers, through their effective direction of complex projects, occupy a critical role in the successful transition to a resilient, low carbon world. This four-week online course is designed to prepare professionals with project management responsibilities to add a climate change lens to their projects.

This four-week blended online course is designed to introduce participants to project management's essential components and practices, within-session application to case studies. The course will build on this foundational level: exploring complexities that, if not addressed, can result in delay, cost overrun, stakeholder dissatisfaction, or project failure, and reviewing various strategies and models that can be employed (e.g., change and engagement models, scheduling, risk mitigation) to improve project success significantly.