In-Person

Project Management Certification

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Length
6 days
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Networking cocktail on the last day, in the evening.
Rate
$5,395
$5,395
Language

French

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your organization
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Émilie Mazet
Émilie Mazet
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Want to excel as a strategic leader and leverage your role to turn ideas into tangible value? Our project management certification program will equip you with the tools you need to make it happen.

Well-honed project management skills and the ability to identify, analyze and mitigate risks at every step are key to being able to align your initiatives with broader corporate objectives. Every project you undertake has a direct impact on your organization’s strategic priorities, so it is important to be able to get everyone’s buy-in and have them all pull in the same direction.

That’s where this certification program comes in. It will help you develop the hands-on and in-demand competencies to leverage your influence, build your credibility and strengthen your ability to lead projects that get real and measurable results. You’ll learn how to adapt your approach to different kinds of stakeholders, deal decisively with naysayers and drive change in line with your organization’s strategy.

MASTER THE ART OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT, FROM STRATEGY TO IMPLEMENTATION

The successful completion of this program entitles you to a digital certificate. These credentials are trusted, secure, verifiable, and sustainable.

GOALS

  • Develop projects that are aligned with your organization’s strategic objectives in order to maximize their impact.
  • Learn and master project management basics, with a focus on key concepts and processes.
  • Acquire skills vital to identifying and analyzing project-related risks — and managing them before they manage you.
  • Incorporate Agile principles and methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban into your workflow to improve your team’s flexibility and responsiveness.
  • Prepare a realistic project management plan and monitor its progress using specialized tools.
  • Strengthen your communication and leadership skills to engage your teams and stakeholders confidently and with authority.
  • Use effective strategies to influence and engage stakeholders, manage opposing points of view, get people excited about your projects and help them embrace change.

IS THIS FOR YOU?

  • Professionals
  • Managers
  • Mid-level and senior executives

This program is for you if:

  • You want to become more skilled at selecting and prioritizing projects that are poised to deliver on your organization’s strategic objectives.
  • You are managing a team against a backdrop of constant uncertainty and the pressure of tight delivery deadlines, and feel the need to rethink your business model.
  • You’re a manager or part of a team involved in identifying and managing risk, and want to learn more about Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and all things Agile.

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • This certification will equip you with the actionable tools and techniques to lead your projects, manage risks and ensure everything is in sync with organizational priorities.
  • You will elevate your communication, leadership and persuasion skills so you can motivate your teams and rally stakeholders around your vision in order to facilitate change over the long term and ensure the success of your projects.

Certificate issuance is contingent on session attendance and the results of the final exam.

DAY 1 - STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Henri-Jean Bonnis

Strategic framework and planning tools

  • Importance of executing strategy: Challenges and opportunities
  • Key concepts: Strategic vision, timelines, internal/external pressures
  • Strategic planning tools
  • Business cases and prioritization

Structured management and project portfolio leadership

  • Organizational project management
  • Implementation of an efficient governance structure
  • Value of a project management office (PMO)
  • Optimizing results: Dashboards and KPIs

Resilience and risk management

  • Types of innovation in various strategic cycles
  • Working budget and schedule overruns into business cases and cost-benefit analyses

DAY 2 - GETTING A PROJECT OFF THE GROUND

Marc Messier

Core concepts

  • Three key project variables
  • Five project management processes and the corresponding deliverables

Project start-up

  • Drafting a project charter
  • Kicking off the project

Project planning

  • Allocating and assigning tasks
  • Planning the necessary resources
  • Estimating time and effort
  • Optimizing project sequencing
  • Identifying and interpreting critical paths
  • Scheduling and budgeting

DAY 3 - PROJECT TRACKING, REPORTING AND CLOSURE

Marc Messier

Tracking a project

  • Managing change requests
  • Handling pending issues
  • Managing project timelines
  • Managing time and expenses
  • Monitoring performance indicators
  • Updating stakeholders on project progress
  • Monitoring team dynamics

Leveraging project management software and tools

Closing a project

  • Evaluating project outcomes
  • Running a project post-mortem

DAY 4 - AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Marc Messier

Introduction to the Agile approach

  • Origins and foundations
  • Values and principles
  • How organizations can benefit from Agile methodology

Scrum

  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Product backlog
  • How sprints work
  • Scrum project simulation

Kanban workflow management

  • Core concepts
  • Kanban board
  • Workflow coordination
  • Setup of Kanban in a work team

Scrumban: An increasingly popular hybrid

  • Basic concepts
  • Differences between Scrum and Kanban

DAY 5 - PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT: STAYING ON THE TRACK WHEN YOUR PLANS GET DERAILED

Marc Messier

Basic concepts

  • The concept of risk
  • Risk management processes
  • Identifying risks

Tools and techniques for determining risk

  • Key components of each risk
  • Exercise/simulation: Identifying project risks
  • Analyzing risk

Analyzing causes and likelihood of occurrence

  • Analyzing consequences and severity of impact
  • Prioritizing risks
  • Exercise/simulation: Analyzing and prioritizing project risks

Risk response planning strategies

  • Risk mitigation plan
  • Risk contingency plan
  • Exercise/simulation: Drafting a risk mitigation plan and contingency plan for a project

Monitoring and communicating project risks

  • Risk log and updates
  • Communicating and escalating risk in an organization

DAY 6 - BOOSTING YOUR PROJECT AND MANAGERIAL INFLUENCE

Pierre Lainey

Analysis of key project stakeholders

Dynamics of influence

  • Positive and negative dynamics
  • Mapping out the dynamics of influence
  • How stakeholders move around on the influence map

Tactics for influencing others

  • Active and passive supporters
  • Active and passive opponents
  • Fence-sitters

How to implement and maintain collaborative relationships

TRAINING APPROACH

  • Dynamic, interactive teaching style
  • Lectures
  • Small group discussions
  • Self-assessment questionnaire
  • Analysis charts

COORDINATOR AND INSTRUCTOR:

Marc Messier

PMP, MBA

Lecturer HEC Montreal

INSTRUCTORS:

Henri-Jean Bonnis

Eng., MSC, ICD.D, PMP, Prince2

Lecturer, HEC Montréal and Founding Partner and Managing Director, Adsum Consulting Group

Pierre Lainey
Pierre Lainey

DBA, MBA, MPsy, C.Adm., CMC, CHRP

Senior Faculty Lecturer, HEC Montréal

In-Person

Project Management Certification

Project Management Certification

Want to excel as a strategic leader and leverage your role to turn ideas into tangible value? Our project management certification program will equip you with the tools you need to make it happen.

Well-honed project management skills and the ability to identify, analyze and mitigate risks at every step are key to being able to align your initiatives with broader corporate objectives. Every project you undertake has a direct impact on your organization’s strategic priorities, so it is important to be able to get everyone’s buy-in and have them all pull in the same direction.

That’s where this certification program comes in. It will help you develop the hands-on and in-demand competencies to leverage your influence, build your credibility and strengthen your ability to lead projects that get real and measurable results. You’ll learn how to adapt your approach to different kinds of stakeholders, deal decisively with naysayers and drive change in line with your organization’s strategy.

MASTER THE ART OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT, FROM STRATEGY TO IMPLEMENTATION

The successful completion of this program entitles you to a digital certificate. These credentials are trusted, secure, verifiable, and sustainable.

Presentation Program Instructors

GOALS

  • Develop projects that are aligned with your organization’s strategic objectives in order to maximize their impact.
  • Learn and master project management basics, with a focus on key concepts and processes.
  • Acquire skills vital to identifying and analyzing project-related risks — and managing them before they manage you.
  • Incorporate Agile principles and methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban into your workflow to improve your team’s flexibility and responsiveness.
  • Prepare a realistic project management plan and monitor its progress using specialized tools.
  • Strengthen your communication and leadership skills to engage your teams and stakeholders confidently and with authority.
  • Use effective strategies to influence and engage stakeholders, manage opposing points of view, get people excited about your projects and help them embrace change.

IS THIS FOR YOU?

  • Professionals
  • Managers
  • Mid-level and senior executives

This program is for you if:

  • You want to become more skilled at selecting and prioritizing projects that are poised to deliver on your organization’s strategic objectives.
  • You are managing a team against a backdrop of constant uncertainty and the pressure of tight delivery deadlines, and feel the need to rethink your business model.
  • You’re a manager or part of a team involved in identifying and managing risk, and want to learn more about Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and all things Agile.

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • This certification will equip you with the actionable tools and techniques to lead your projects, manage risks and ensure everything is in sync with organizational priorities.
  • You will elevate your communication, leadership and persuasion skills so you can motivate your teams and rally stakeholders around your vision in order to facilitate change over the long term and ensure the success of your projects.

Certificate issuance is contingent on session attendance and the results of the final exam.

DAY 1 - STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Henri-Jean Bonnis

Strategic framework and planning tools

  • Importance of executing strategy: Challenges and opportunities
  • Key concepts: Strategic vision, timelines, internal/external pressures
  • Strategic planning tools
  • Business cases and prioritization

Structured management and project portfolio leadership

  • Organizational project management
  • Implementation of an efficient governance structure
  • Value of a project management office (PMO)
  • Optimizing results: Dashboards and KPIs

Resilience and risk management

  • Types of innovation in various strategic cycles
  • Working budget and schedule overruns into business cases and cost-benefit analyses

DAY 2 - GETTING A PROJECT OFF THE GROUND

Marc Messier

Core concepts

  • Three key project variables
  • Five project management processes and the corresponding deliverables

Project start-up

  • Drafting a project charter
  • Kicking off the project

Project planning

  • Allocating and assigning tasks
  • Planning the necessary resources
  • Estimating time and effort
  • Optimizing project sequencing
  • Identifying and interpreting critical paths
  • Scheduling and budgeting

DAY 3 - PROJECT TRACKING, REPORTING AND CLOSURE

Marc Messier

Tracking a project

  • Managing change requests
  • Handling pending issues
  • Managing project timelines
  • Managing time and expenses
  • Monitoring performance indicators
  • Updating stakeholders on project progress
  • Monitoring team dynamics

Leveraging project management software and tools

Closing a project

  • Evaluating project outcomes
  • Running a project post-mortem

DAY 4 - AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Marc Messier

Introduction to the Agile approach

  • Origins and foundations
  • Values and principles
  • How organizations can benefit from Agile methodology

Scrum

  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Product backlog
  • How sprints work
  • Scrum project simulation

Kanban workflow management

  • Core concepts
  • Kanban board
  • Workflow coordination
  • Setup of Kanban in a work team

Scrumban: An increasingly popular hybrid

  • Basic concepts
  • Differences between Scrum and Kanban

DAY 5 - PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT: STAYING ON THE TRACK WHEN YOUR PLANS GET DERAILED

Marc Messier

Basic concepts

  • The concept of risk
  • Risk management processes
  • Identifying risks

Tools and techniques for determining risk

  • Key components of each risk
  • Exercise/simulation: Identifying project risks
  • Analyzing risk

Analyzing causes and likelihood of occurrence

  • Analyzing consequences and severity of impact
  • Prioritizing risks
  • Exercise/simulation: Analyzing and prioritizing project risks

Risk response planning strategies

  • Risk mitigation plan
  • Risk contingency plan
  • Exercise/simulation: Drafting a risk mitigation plan and contingency plan for a project

Monitoring and communicating project risks

  • Risk log and updates
  • Communicating and escalating risk in an organization

DAY 6 - BOOSTING YOUR PROJECT AND MANAGERIAL INFLUENCE

Pierre Lainey

Analysis of key project stakeholders

Dynamics of influence

  • Positive and negative dynamics
  • Mapping out the dynamics of influence
  • How stakeholders move around on the influence map

Tactics for influencing others

  • Active and passive supporters
  • Active and passive opponents
  • Fence-sitters

How to implement and maintain collaborative relationships

TRAINING APPROACH

  • Dynamic, interactive teaching style
  • Lectures
  • Small group discussions
  • Self-assessment questionnaire
  • Analysis charts

COORDINATOR AND INSTRUCTOR:

Marc Messier

PMP, MBA

Lecturer HEC Montreal

INSTRUCTORS:

Henri-Jean Bonnis

Eng., MSC, ICD.D, PMP, Prince2

Lecturer, HEC Montréal and Founding Partner and Managing Director, Adsum Consulting Group

Pierre Lainey
Pierre Lainey

DBA, MBA, MPsy, C.Adm., CMC, CHRP

Senior Faculty Lecturer, HEC Montréal
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