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Efficiency. Budget. Deadlines. All core considerations within any workplace. A project manager’s role is to achieve peak organizational output while optimizing all vital resources—time, money, and human capital. Companies know they need that level of leadership to tackle the realities of global competition, emerging technologies, and increased customer demands.

Once you learn how to select, govern, fund, and implement organizational activities using project management tools, processes, and techniques, you will be capable of managing major initiatives that impact a business’s success. Be the one to maximize return on investment for your organization and you could do more than improve your company’s bottom line—you could improve your own.

Apply your project management skills to anything from the design of an alternative fuel-powered vehicle to closing on new construction in the next hip downtown neighborhood, and to anywhere from ecommerce to aerospace. With three tracks to choose from—business, information technology, or construction—the possibilities are endless.

Prepare for your PMP® Designation

Kaplan Continuing Education has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

As a PMI® Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) Kaplan Continuing Education has agreed to abide by PMI® established quality assurance criteria.

Imagine What You Can Do

Initiate

Authorize and define the scope of work for developing a new consumer product or technology-enhanced service.

Plan

Hone the project scope, develop the project management plan, and identify and schedule project activities.

Execute

Complete the work as defined in the project management plan to accomplish objectives.

Control

Compare actual performance with planned performance; analyze variances; effect process improvements; evaluate alternatives; recommend appropriate corrective actions.

Close

Formally complete all activities on a project or phase and transfer the completed product to clients or investors.

Manage

Oversee everything from integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement.

Is This Program Right For Me?

KCE’s Project Management Certificate is ideally suited for business, information technology, and construction professionals. The program first concentrates on providing a strong foundation in project management, then combines the advanced skills from one of three core practice areas:

* Business

* Information Technology

* Construction