To be offered on-site at Stanford University on Monday thru Friday, September 13 - 17, 2010.

The Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate Program provides professionals with advanced tools and techniques to strategically execute projects, programs, and portfolios. The program consists of a curriculum of noncredit short courses and combines Stanford University's academic and research expertise with the proven project management methodologies of IPSolutions, Inc.

The result is a dynamic curriculum that provides advanced skills and practical instruction on the processes, organizational structure, and tools that assure that project work yields the desired business results.

Practical Approaches, Proven Results

In today's business environment it is essential for organizations to develop project managers who can complete individual projects on time and within budget. It is even more critical to develop an organization that can leverage its project management capability into a key competitive advantage in an ever-changing marketplace.

Leading The Way

The Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate Program is a unique blend of cutting-edge Stanford University research and proven techniques from leading-practice companies that provides crucial insights and practical tools for managing projects, portfolios, and complex systems.

Learn how to:

• Establish effective governance over a project portfolio or multiple project portfolios
• Evaluate the inherent value - and risk- of projects in the portfolio
• Align projects with strategic objectives
• Make trade-offs between several desirable opportunities when faced with insufficient resources to accomplish them all
• Customize, implement, and institutionalize a portfolio management process that will work for your organization
• Apply good sense in managing the day-to-day details of the portfolio
• Reduce the negative impact of organizational politics
• Integrate the portfolio management process with other business processes
• Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities
• Effectively work with clients or customers to help them organize their project portfolios
• Evaluate existing projects against new projects while managing a dynamic pipeline in which projects are constantly added, closed out, and rescoped
• Effectively estimate resource capacity against resource demand
• Better understand project interdependence
• Effectively handle the requests of project and functional managers for more time, money, and resources
• Promote organization-wide consistency with regard to portfolio management objectives, processes, roles, and responsibilities

  Posted by jaelyn at May 3, 2010 3:56 PM