Program Courses
To earn a project management certificate, students must successfully complete the following courses depending on which track of study they choose:
- Applied Project Management Certificate: complete the Core Course (PROJ_PMI 402-0 or PROJ_PMI 402-DL) only
- Essentials of Project Management Certificate: complete the Core Course (PROJ_PMI 401-0 or PROJ_PMI 401-DL) and two Electives
- Certificate in Agile Practices: complete the Core Course (PROJ_PMI 403-0) and two Electives
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Annual Schedule
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Attribution
PMI, PMBOK, CAPM, PMI-ACP, and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
Course Registration
PDP courses are offered online, remotely, and on-campus.
Please refer to the Schedule Notes for course delivery information.
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(B) complete an acknowledgment of Northwestern University's Student Expectations and COVID-19 Code of Conduct in CAESAR, AND (C)
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New students must complete their student acknowledgment in CAESAR within 48 hours of enrollment before official registration can be finalized.
Please contact
pdp@northwestern.edu
for assistance.
PROJ_PMI 225-0 : Power Excel Skills for Project Managers
Description
The Executive Team is counting on you to commit a project completion date. Mistakes will be costly due to penalties if there is any delay. Your project team is counting on you to guide their effort so the critical tasks are identified and prioritized. You are buried in a ton of project information arriving to you daily. How do you collect and organize it? How do you make sense of it? How do you use it to make the best decisions for the project?
From committing to a project completion date based on the organization's risk tolerance to creating compelling reports and charts that can drive actions from your organization to address critical issues to keep your project on track, Excel is one of the best and more flexible tools available for Project Managers to simplify tasks related to managing information and also to help on daily decision making on many levels.
Students will learn advanced excel skills through this hands-on workshop that will help them to create analytical tools, formulas, charts, graphs and macros that will support them on making critical project management decisions. Real-world experiences from project initiation to project completion will be used so students will leave each day of the training with the ability to apply what they have learned in their workplace.
Total Professional Development Units (PDUs): 10 (Technical: 7; Leadership: 3)
Registered students can access their online course site here. An activated NetID and password is required for login. *Please note: It may take up to 24-hours for registered students to be added to the online course platform.
Additional Information:
This course is intended for students with basic to intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel®.
Students are required to bring a computer (PC or MAC) with Microsoft Excel® installed since they will complete in class exercises designed to reinforce concepts learned during the course lecture.
Students may also be eligible to purchase software at discounted rates through Northwestern's agreement with Microsoft.
Tuition : $830Summer 2024 | ||||
Start/End Dates | Day(s) | Time | Building | Section |
08/13/24 - 08/29/24 | TuTh | 6 – 8 p.m. | 43 | |
Instructor | Course Location | Status | CAESAR Course ID | |
Melo (DeMelo), Alex (Alexandre) | Remote Campus | Open | 42186 | |
Schedule Notes : This course will be conducted remotely, online. This course has required live, synchronous sessions, held online via Zoom, on Tuesday and Thursday from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm CT. Sync session attendance is mandatory unless otherwise stated by the course instructor. All times listed CST For more information, please contact profdev@northwestern.edu. Course Materials :Course materials are included in the cost of tuition and will be provided in class and via the online course site. It is recommended that students have two monitors for the remote offering of this course: one screen open to Excel, and the other screen for viewing the instructor. |