Project Management X

Project management is a fast-growing profession, as well as an evolving profession. Project Management X (PMX) offers a fresh perspective on the essential knowledge and skills required to deliver intended project outcomes.

This course starts with the concept that the purpose of projects is to deliver value. Value can be created in various ways depending on whether you have known or evolving scope. PMX teaches a variety of ways to begin a project including a project proposal, charter, and roadmap. You will learn how to organize and deliver scope using a mixture of methods, such as a WBS, backlog, and releases.

PMX provides you with the opportunity to tailor the functions needed to lead a project so you can balance management needs and support self-organizing teams. It helps you honor the need for flexibility while aligning with best practices. The X in Project Management X represents how you can think differently about determining a tailored approach to your projects in order to meet the needs of your organization.

This robust experience, designed to enable on-the-job skill transfer, leverages collaborative technology, videos, polls, self-assessments, and rigorous case study practices.

At the end of this program, you will be able to:

• Communicate in standard project management terminology 
• Use evidence to make informed decisions and tailor predictive and adaptive approaches, methods, and tools
• Connect key project functions to roles
• Relate servant leadership to team dynamics and successful projects
• Align a project's objectives with business strategy
• Create a project charter and team charter 
• Assess stakeholders and construct a basic communication plan
• Establish a project life cycle and high-level project roadmap
• Organize project scope with a Work Breakdown Structure and a prioritized backlog
• Evaluate the pros and cons of scheduling methods
• Develop a schedule network diagram
• Estimate project work using various techniques
• Identify, analyze, and respond to project risks
• Determine a project baseline
• Plan iterations
• Establish corrective actions for project variances