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Professional Certificate

Fundamentals of Project Management

Project management skills are in demand and hard to find. Whether you’re looking to grow your existing career or take it in a new direction, you may benefit from sharpening these critical job skills.

To help familiarize yourself with the essential techniques used to keep projects, people and resources on task, on budget and on time, eRasmussen has created the Fundamentals of Project Management Professional Certificate, a non-degree, non-credit training course. 1

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Be Prepared with Project Management Skills

A well-thought out project management strategy is one of the most effective methods of delivering products or projects within budget, on schedule and effectively utilizing valuable resources, both human and capital. The eRasmussen Fundamentals of Project Management Professional Certificate gives you the skills to ensure your projects are completed on time and on budget for your team or company. You will gain a working knowledge of the basics of project management and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively manage work projects.

Upon completion, you will have an understanding of project management strategy and how to direct project scope, create a project plan and project budget, define and allocate resources and identify and manage risks.


Benefits

Evolve Your Career

Develop skills for implementing projects while remaining in scope and on schedule with a modest investment of time and money.

Hone Your Organizational Skills

Learn project structure, forecasting and scheduling. Explore resource management and the methods used to manage staffing, influencers, stakeholders and procurement.

Increase Your Effectiveness

Keep projects, resources and team members on task by examining the roles of project integration such as time, cost and quality.

Update Your Resume

Showcase your new in-demand skill set valued by employers. Project management is in high demand across industries. In 2020, there were over 2.3 million job postings requesting project management skills. 2

ELEMENTS

What You Will Learn

  • COURSE 1

    Fundamentals of Project Management

    • Lifecycle of a Project

      Project management processes, scope and lifecycle.

    • Methods for Project Management

      Influencers and methods utilized for staffing, managing and executing projects.

    • Managing Resources

      Communication, human resources, capital resources, procurement and stakeholder management.

    • Workstream Influencers

      The concepts of work breakdown structure: coding, forecasting and scheduling.

    • Project Breakdown and Planning

      Evaluation of the concepts of work breakdown structure, coding, forecasting and scheduling.

    • Handling Project Risk

      Approaches to project risk management and techniques used to assess and control project risks.

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Keep projects, resources and team members on task and on budget.

One Course

Show your proficiency by sharing your badge and certificate on your resume or LinkedIn®.3

WHY RASMUSSEN

Affordable and Convenient

Affordable and Convenient

Engaging content such as videos, images and interactive elements emphasize skill mastery; not just theory. Earning a Professional Certificate means quickly realizing the benefits of your new proficiencies with validated skill competencies to showcase on your resume.

Plus, all of the eRasmussen Professional Certificates are available to everyone with no costs or fees to help support our community of motivated learners.4

  • Career training that’s easy to manage

    • No cost to you 4
    • Cloud-based and available on your time
    • Six to eight hours is the average completion time per training 5
    • Easily digestible content units (45–90 minutes), including video, images and interactive elements that keep you engaged
    • Saves progress in real time, allowing you to stop and complete later

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$0 per course
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