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Advanced Project Management Tools & Techniques
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When you complete this Advanced Project Management Tools & Techniques experience, you are better equipped with tools to manage resources and timelines in your projects. Recognize impacts through risk analysis and then make more data informed decisions.

Participants will learn:

  • Advanced Project Planning and Scheduling Methods: IMS (Integrated Master Schedule)
  • Advanced Overall Project SRA (Schedule Risk Analysis)
  • Advanced Overall Project ESM (Earned Schedule Management)
  • Plus Chrono™, a new and innovative software product that integrates all three and new IP (Intellectual Property).

Taking your project management skills to greater precision means better forecasting and resource utilization. This drives the bottom line for profitability and performance. Gain success in your next project with these advanced skills.

This course is recommended for anyone in all disciplines seeking to accelerate their project management skills.

Advanced Project Management Tools and Techniques is the fifth micro-credential in a series (or "pathway") of five micro-credentials on Strategic Project Management.
 

Course Details

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The Advanced Project Management Tools & Techniques Micro-Credential is composed of the following 3 learning modules: 

  • Module 1 - The Integrated Master Schedule
  • Module 2 - Schedule Risk Analysis
  • Module 3 - Earned Value and Earned Schedule Management

Within each module is an interactive lesson, instructional resources, e.g., PDF articles, webpages, or videos, and a multiple-choice exam.
 

KNOWLEDGE: Earners will be assessed via several multiple-choice exams and one comprehensive exam. Exams are graded immediately and multiple attempts are allowed.

 

  • Work through the following three asynchronous and interactive lessons: The IMS (Integrated Master Schedule), SRA (Schedule Risk Analysis), and EV (Earned Value) and ES (Earned Schedule) Management.
  • Pass multiple, short "knowledge check" quizzes (multiple retries are allowed).
  • Pass a final exam, which is largely a compilation of 26 quiz questions taken from the four lessons, with a score of 80% or higher.
     

Enroll NowAvailable to current students, faculty & staff.

  Skills

Earned Value Management (EVM), Schedule Risk Analysis

  Delivery

Asynchronous online

  Schedule

Ongoing with continuous enrollment

  Prerequisites

Project Portfolio Management; Managing Project Risks; Strategic Project Management Methodologies; General Project Management Topics for Leaders. This is #5 of five in the Strategic Project Management Series.

  Completion

10 hours

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Meet the Instructor

Michael M. Bissonette (MS, MBA, PfMP) is a highly successful engineer-turned-businessman and is considered both a thought-leader and subject matter expert in Portfolio, Program and Project Management within several diverse industries. His work experience spans over 40 years of product development and organizational management, including executive positions in large Fortune 500 companies. He is an author of two books on the subject of “Strategic Project Management” (the first is titled: Project Risk Management: A Practical Implementation Approach, a best-seller published by the Project Management Institute, Inc., in 2016, and the second was recently published in 2021 – titled Achieving Epic Business Results with Strategic Project Management). Mike is an instructor (at his alma mater, Clarkson University) in the MS-EM curriculum. He is an entrepreneur (Founder of RTConfidence, Inc. – a SaaS [Software as a Services] company), developing Chrono™, the most advanced and affordable integrated IMS (Integrated Master Schedule)/SRA (Schedule Risk Analysis)/ESM (Earned Schedule Management) SaaS Tool on the market. Mike has been a guest speaker at numerous events around the world. He has always been a world-wide training asset within all the organizations he’s worked at. And he has been engaged on occasion to help facilitate enterprise-level transformational change.

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