Project Management Capstone
Apply your skills in this hands-on practicum
In this intensive lab experience, you’ll apply all of the skills necessary to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close a project. Working as part of a team on a simulated six-month, mid-sized, high-priority project, you will be responsible for developing the key project management deliverables, including the project charter, project plan, change control process, status reports and post-project reviews. You will facilitate meetings, update the project plan with actuals and changes, present status to management, justify your decisions to key stakeholders and determine the impacts of your actions on multiple projects. Under the guidance of a senior project manager, you will be given direct feedback and techniques to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Learn how to:
- Develop a project charter
- Define the functional requirements that address business needs
- Build a project schedule
- Present and report project status to key stakeholders
- Manage the effects of change on multiple projects
- Assign and resolve resource constraints
- Analyze variances and practice replanning
- Present and report project status to stakeholders
PMBOK™ knowledge areas
- Time management
- Cost management
- Scope management
- Quality management
- Risk management
- Procurement management
- Communication management
- Human resource management
- Project integration
Program pre-requisite: This is the final course in the series. All other Masters Certificate classes should be taken prior to “Project Management Capstone.” Proficiency in MS Project is required before taking this course. If you do not have a working knowledge of this Microsoft® project management computer course, please take Applying MS Project first.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 2.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 22 hours, as well as 22 PDUs.
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