General Project Management Topics for Leaders

General Project Management Topics for Leaders
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You will become well-equipped to tackle diverse challenges, drive organizational success, and lead teams towards achieving their goals when you complete the General Project Management Topics for Leaders microcredential short non-credit online course. 

This course focuses on three important leadership topics: 

  • Maintaining a Balanced Plan, one of the most challenging activities in project, program, portfolio, and functional management. 
  • Product Development Processes used to execute the project plan (i.e., Predictive/Waterfall, Iterative/Incremental, Agile/Adaptive, and Hybrid or combination.
  • Project Management Leadership (responsibilities, competencies, and selection).

This microcredential is for project managers, team leads, supervisors and aspiring leaders who seek to enhance their project management skills, deepen their leadership capabilities, and drive successful project outcomes within their organizations.

General Project Management Topics for Leaders microcredential offers a pathway to enhanced leadership skills, improved career prospects, expanded knowledge, increased credibility, networking opportunities, adaptability, and personal fulfillment—all of which are valuable assets in today's dynamic and competitive professional landscape.
 

Course Details

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The General Project Management Topics for Leaders Micro-Credential is composed of the following 3 learning modules:

  • Module 1 - Maintaining a Balanced Plan
  • Module 2 - The Product Development Process
  • Module 3 - Project Team Leadership.

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 lessons: Maintaining a Balanced Plan, The PDP (Product Development Process), and Project Team Leadership.
  • 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

Planning, Product Development Processes, Leadership

  Delivery

Asynchronous online

  Schedule

Ongoing with continuous enrollment

  Prerequisites

Project Portfolio Management; Managing Project Risks; Strategic Project Management Methodologies. This is #4 of five in the Strategic Project Management Series.

  Completion

10 hours

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Meet Your 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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