Corporate Institute of Project Management Certificate Program (CIPM)
Businesses generally change and adapt to their competitive environment by implementing projects. Unfortunately, many projects are late, financially overrun or fail to deliver on business objectives. Certification in Project Management is rapidly becoming one of the most sought after credentials for today’s professionals. Whether you are a senior executive, a project manager or a project team member, it is YOUR job to help YOUR organization grow and increase its value. Successful project planning and execution involves a carefully designed set of tools and techniques designed to help manage change, drive competitive advantage and deliver results in line with your organization’s corporate strategy. WPI’s Corporate Institute of Project Management Certificate Program (CIPM) has been designed for those project management professionals who want to make a significant contribution to their organization by successfully managing projects that will make a positive business impact. WPI’s CIPM Program is available only on a customized on-site basis. Taught by highly skilled project management professional practitioners, this Institute covers the best practices outlined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge, third edition (PMBOK Guide) from the Project Management Institute (PMI). A unique feature of this Institute is the use of company-specific case studies, allowing the participants to immediately apply the learnings from each course to real life business scenarios.
WPI’s Corporate Institute of Project Management Certificate Program (CIPM) features the following curriculum:
Course 1: Fundamentals of Project Management Methodology
Designed to give attendees an understanding of how a consistently applied project management methodology can accelerate projects, and provides an understanding of the major characteristics of the sponsoring organization’s Project Management Methodology. Through discussions and case studies, participants learn the project management challenges associated with developing an organization’s products and services as well as learn and practice approaches for identifying project management requirements and customer needs. At the end of this session, participants will be familiar with Project Management Methodologies; understand the Interdependence of Scope, Schedule and Resources; be familiar with their specific organization’s Project Management Methodologies; and be able to develop a project charter.
Course 2: Project Management Planning and Scheduling—Setting Boundaries and Planning Techniques
This session teaches participants how to take customer needs and establish project boundary conditions. Through case studies and exercises, attendees learn how to establish clear scope definitions for a project; how to specify task level quality requirements; become familiar with estimating techniques; understand the strengths and weaknesses of various project scheduling principles and techniques; and, construct a project schedule, develop a network diagram, and calculate the critical path.
Course 3: Project Leadership & Communications—Leading the Project Team
Initial focus is on how to manage and level workloads among team members. Participants learn how to schedule a project so as not to over-allocate any individual and to be able to establish a budget baseline and effectively conduct a project review. The secondary focus teaches the participants how project teams differ from most other business teams. Attendees become familiar with the roles of the project leader and project team members. Attributes of project team development will be explored. Using several exercises and case studies, attendees will learn several proven techniques for resolving conflicts on projects. They will learn how to develop a project Roles and Responsibility matrix as well as a project communications plan.
Course 4: Project Risk Management—Forecast, Monitor and Mitigate Risk
This workshop focuses on how to establish and implement a structured approach to forecast, monitor and mitigate project risk factors for both large and small projects. Attendees will participate in a case study and exercises to learn about several methods (qualitative and quantitative) for identifying the different types of risk associated with projects, such as technical, time, cost, etc. and will be able to successfully analyze project risk scenarios, develop a risk response plan and monitor project execution for Risk Triggers.
Course 5: Project Execution and Control—Running the Project and Project Pitfalls
This workshop begins with how to effectively manage project work done by suppliers. Participants will be exposed to control tools and techniques designed to assess whether a project is going according to plan or will require updates or changes. Using a case study approach, participants will learn how to determine when a project requires a change and how to effectively implement those changes. Project schedule acceleration and project procurement management techniques will be explored. Finally, approaches to close out a project and effectively hand off results to the business team will be explored.
“The concepts taught in Fundamentals of Project Management were immediately applicable, so the ROI was immediate as well.”
— Cheryl Cerny, Director of Programming and Systems Support Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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