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Overview

The Project Risk Management - Effective Decision Making Strategies programme in collaboration with University System of Maryland - USMx is a Professional Certificate. 

Key Facts

Today’s organizations find themselves in increasingly competitive markets. Competitors move fast and consumer demands evolve even faster. The risks inherent to delivering successful projects in this environment are substantial. The understanding of project risks and the capability successfully to grapple with them is critical to success.

Simplistic schemes for managing project risk which benefit little from modern decision science or statistics do little to help managers. These may actually do more harm than good. The state-of-the-art project manager can do better.

Job Outlook

• Senior Project Managers salary: $117,827 (Glassdoor).
• Job Volume: 132,763 job postings in the U.S. between June 2019 - June 2021 for jobs seeking “project risk management” as a skill.
• PMI estimates growth for Project Manager positions will be 33% through 2027.