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Project Management

Graduate Certificate

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Gain the skills to lead projects across industries, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and aligned with organizational goals.

» Program Overview

Turn Plans Into Progress

Project management is the cornerstone of successful organizations. With LTU’s Graduate Certificate in Project Management, you’ll gain the skills and expertise to lead projects across industries, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and aligned with organizational goals. This program equips you with both the theoretical knowledge and practical tools to excel in this dynamic field.

Through four 3-credit-hour courses, you’ll master the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), giving you a solid foundation in industry best practices. You’ll then have the skills to manage projects effectively in various organizational settings and advance your career to new heights.

» Why LTU?

  • Gain foundational project management knowledge and hands-on experience to lead projects successfully.
  • Complete this flexible 12-credit certificate 100% online or attend courses on campus to fit your schedule.
  • Fulfill qualifying requirements to pursue certifications from the Project Management Institute, enhancing your career potential.

Program Director

Minakhi (Mina) Jena

mjena@ltu.edu
248.204.3071

» Curriculum

Core Courses (12 Credits)

Course Name

Course #

Credits

Project Management
This course is designed to provide students with the necessary skills, tools, and techniques to effectively manage a major project on time, within budget and with successful results. The course focuses on planning and control over the life of the project with an emphasis on Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices and real life scenarios. The course will cover project lifecycle planning, PERT and CPM, computer based project control tools, resource loading, scheduling, costing, and decision making in the project environment.

MBA7063

3

Course Name

Course #

Credits

Reflective Leadership
The course is designed to provide professionals and managers with a broad understanding of leadership concepts, theories, and skills necessary for practicing leadership in the global economy. The course focuses on a variety of techniques and applications for assessing leadership competencies and generating action plans for applying leadership skills. The course emphasizes the requirements for effective leadership in multi-cultural organizations and the development of personal leadership skills.

MBA6043

3

Managing a Global Workforce
This course studies principles, techniques and strategies to manage a global workforce in a multi-cultural organization. The course explores differences in cultures, the origins of cultural differences, and the multiple and diverse impacts culture has on the management of human resources and performance of global organizations. Issues encountered in recruiting, selection, training, and retaining a skilled global workforce are addressed. The course also examines differences in ethical systems, values and beliefs, and their impacts on the practice of management, and on individual and organizational performance.

MBA7053

3

Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management
This course aims to develop and nourish an entrepreneurial mindset, foster innovation & encourage out of the box thinking, by exposing the students to practical tools and techniques. The need for entrepreneurial thinking to differentiate yourself, is perhaps equally important whether you are interested in excelling as an intrapreneur in the corporate world or you are interested in starting/growing a successful business as an entrepreneur. Topics covered in this course include: Ideation and opportunities assessment; taking calculated risks; business plans that adapt; business structure; funding and business development.

MBA7103

3

Project Risk and Quality Management

This course will provide students with an organized approach for managing the uncertainties to insure continuity and profitability. It also studies the philosophy of Total Quality Management (TQM) and issues concerning its implementation by covering the approaches of well-known leaders in the field. In this class, students will examine and apply essential tools and techniques by identifying, ranking and monitoring risks in the project management environment. The course, also, provides an adequate coverage of Project Quality Management concepts with an emphasis on quality improvement tools, cross-functional teams, leadership for quality, quality planning, quality assurance, statistical-process control, process capability & ISO 9000 standards.

MBA7173

3

Managing Outsourced Projects
In today’s world of global business management, most companies outsource their projects where much of the project management is being partially or completely performed at domestic and foreign suppliers or service providers. Most outsourced projects contain either an IT component or they may have to do with the creation of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes. This course is designed to achieve satisfactory outsourced projects outputs in helping with the management and leadership of outsourced (international) projects that are carried out in a complex environment. The three main areas that are covered in this course are outsourcing, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and the foundation of international project management. The course starts with the coverage of outsourcing and its variants first, then it discusses the historical development and basics of ITIL as the most widely and globally-adopted framework of best practices for developing IT services followed by the application of project management to international projects. Here the course deals with the leadership of projects that are conducted in multiple countries and cultures introducing the many ways that a collaborative project enterprise (CPE) can be structured in alignment with the statutes, laws, or policies of the organizations that are buying and providing services. Also, the cross-cultural leadership intelligence (XQL) model is introduced and applied to manage the CPE which increases the leadership stature of the lead project manager. The Microsoft Project software will be utilized in this course.

INT6253

3

Agile Project Management
Organizations around the world have been switching to agile development for faster delivery, quicker response to customer feedback, iterative product improvements and frequent releases. Portfolio management which can help bridge the gap between agile teams and management to create a winning agile enterprise will be a key element of this course. Specific topics covered in this course are: Understanding Agile; Forming the Agile Team; The Agile Coach; Agile Planning, Customer Focus; Creating and Prioritizing the Product Backlog; Estimating; Release Planning; Building Cadence; Iteration Planning and Execution; Measuring and Communicating Progress; and Adopting Agile Project Management.

INT7563

3

Organization Development and Change Management
This course integrates the theory and practice of organization development using transitional and transformational leadership models for negotiating change. Values, vision, communication, and coalition building are explored to build the structure needed to overcome resistance to change and open the way to orchestrate change in complex global organizations. Cultural factors affecting individual and group dynamics are considered and integrated into the design and implementation of plans for strategic change.

MBA7033

3

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.