Certified Project Management

Overview

The aim of the Certified Project Management Professional program from Swiss School Of Business and Management is to familiarize students with techniques needed to achieve these three goals. 

Basic topics and segments of project management that students will address in this course are: quality of an effective project manager, typical responsibilities of the project manager and project selection, preparation of the detailed work schedule and budget, creating a project team, management, quality control of the project; risk management and more.

During the certificate program variety of teaching methods will be used: from basic explanations of terms and concepts, exercises, working on case studies, individual work in finding the application of the presented knowledge and group/team work on the project.

Beyond mere description of theoretical lectures, the emphasis will be on practical work, where students will plan and manage a project that will result in a capstone project.

The certificate program is delivered in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia that is a publicly recognized and accredited university with a double world-known accreditations AACSB and EPAS.

Learning Objectives

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

• Get started with project management fundamentals.

• Identify organizational influences and project life cycle.

• Work with project management processes.

• Initiate a project.

• Plan a project.

• Plan for project time management.

• Plan project budget, quality, and communications.

• Plan for risk, procurement, and stakeholder management.

• Execute a project.

• Manage project work, scope, schedules, and cost.

• Control a project.

• Close a project.