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Course Description

Project management is essential for business success, offering visibility into project health and enabling early detection of issues for quick resolution. This course provides skills, tools, and templates to confidently manage projects, while offering insights into salaries, certification costs, and education requirements, helping you advance your career and expand your network.

 
 

Course Outline

Unit 1
Project Management Overview
• Project Manager’s Responsibilities & Commitment
• Certification Requirements & Costs
• Compensation
• Project Framework Preview
 
Unit 2
Tools & Templates
• Project Process Checklist
• Project Charter Template
• Project Plan Template
• Communications Templates
 
Unit 3
Creating a Project
• Creating a project plan and schedule in MS Project
• Creating charter and team/stakeholder matrices
• Creating Change Log
• Creating a Risk Plan
 
Unit 4
Managing the Project - Prepare a Project Status Deck
• Creating status deck (format, content, operating rhythm, etc.)
• Collecting Detail Status
• Presenting Summary Status
• Simulating project close-out & celebrate

About Your Instructor:

Andy Stanhope has a Master’s of Business Administration, a Master’s of Science in Computer Systems and is a certified Project Management Professional, PMP, with over 25 years’ experience managing projects within medium and large companies, domestically and internationally. He has managed projects in a variety of software implementations, including Oracle, SAP, and SASS applications.  He now works as a senior project manager at a large aerospace corporation. He has previously taught PMP certification preparation sessions as well as taught undergraduate project management courses in Business and IT programs.

 
 

Learner Outcomes

You will have the necessary set of skills, processes, tools and templates to confidently setup, manage and close-out a project. Each student will be provide with and electronic set of:
· Tools & Templates
· Process
· All class created documents
· Instructor’s course presentation materials
· Certificate of Completion
 

Notes

Course Objectives
 
To provide the students with:
· Experience project management by creating and managing a project
· Exposure to a basic set of tools and templates
· Process outline for managing projects
· Information to make a decision to choose project management as a career
 

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Section Title
Intro to Project Management
Type
Online-Self Paced
Dates
Jun 02, 2025 to Jun 27, 2025
Contact Hours
16.0
Course Fee(s)
Tuition non-credit $195.00 Click here to get more information
CEUs
1.6 CEUs
Section Notes

For further information on this course, please contact dlanpher@harpercollege.edu.

Software requirements: Access to 2013 or newer MS Word, Excel, and Adobe Reader.

 

Section Title
Intro to Project Management
Type
Online-Self Paced
Dates
Sep 02, 2025 to Sep 26, 2025
Contact Hours
16.0
Course Fee(s)
Tuition non-credit $195.00 Click here to get more information
CEUs
1.6 CEUs
Section Notes

For further information on this course, please contact dlanpher@harpercollege.edu.

Software requirements: Access to 2013 or newer MS Word, Excel, and Adobe Reader.

 

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