RMC Live Instructor-Led Course Catalog

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Tools and Fundamentals

Project Management Fundamentals® 

Duration:

3 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

21

Learn key concepts, terminology and tools available to effectively manage projects. Utilize a step-by-step process designed to help you organize your efforts to work faster and more efficiently. Using case studies, interactive exercises and instructor-led discussions, you will identify your project management knowledge and skills gaps, and then create a self-directed action plan that you can implement after course completion.

PM Crash Course

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

7

This 1-day course in real-world project management is perfect for people who are looking to get projects back on track, find easy-to-use tools that can make an immediate impact, or too busy to learn the fundamentals of project management. If you feel like you’re winging it, running out of time or losing control, you need this one day of training to start managing your projects the RIGHT way!

PM Crash Course for IT Professionals

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

8

The course is specifically designed to include references, examples and exercises for project leads and team members working on IT projects. This one-day course in project management is perfect for people who are looking to get IT projects on track and find tools that can make an immediate impact. The course includes detailed training in the most crucial elements of project initiating and planning, as well as great survey of the other project management processes, tools and techniques.

Business Analysis Fundamentals

Duration:

3 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

21

Whether or not your title is “Business Analyst”, business analysis work is expected from project managers, quality assurance professionals, and pretty much everyone in the organization. It is a complex and broad discipline! This course outlines the critical tasks included in the business analysis profession, along with definitions and examples of the various requirements types. It will also cover key analysis techniques for eliciting, analyzing and presenting requirements.

Introduction to Test-Driven Development

Duration:

2 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

The practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) allows an agile development team to efficiently convert user defined requirements into a well-designed, fully tested working implementation that not only meets the business need, but will also be easy and safe to extend, maintain and enhance over time. Rather than spending weeks or months on an extended “design phase,” agile teams use TDD to evolve and optimize their design and implementation over time, to meet the team’s evolving understanding of the business requirements.

Agile Fundamentals

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

Designed for agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and senior managers looking to understand and apply the agile approach and practices to new product development. Understand the importance of a strong agile team, servant leadership aand other key concepts of Agile. You will learn what is needed to be successful on Agile projects in your organization from initiation and release planning to iterative retrospectives. Apply the fundamental models of creating personas and user stories, size a story backlog, and create a release plan.

Creating a Winning Work Breakdown Structure

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

7

This accelerated learning course will walk you through the process of preparing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for your own, real world projects. Expanding upon the WBS content in our popular Project Management Tricks of the Trade class, you will learn the benefits of a WBS in project management, and practice creating several work breakdown structures with the help of the instructor and your classmates. You will also be given the opportunity to begin creating a WBS for your current real world project.

Managing Small Projects

Duration:

2 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

Project Managers and other professionals are asked to manage small projects every day. Often, an individual is managing several smaller projects at the same time. These projects require a more flexible, less formal approach to project management. Even business analysts, marketing analysts, and software developers are expected to manage their own projects, while also performing much of the project work as a key team member—or the ONLY team member.

Business Analysis: A Critical Role on Projects

Duration:

½ Day – 10am-2pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

4

This 4-hour course will define the two disciplines, as well as give students the opportunity to assess their personal skills as they relate to each role. The course will also offer specific suggestions for building strong PM/BA partnerships, and outline solutions for managing work when one person is assigned to perform both roles. Whether you are a Project Manager or Business Analyst—or both—this course will increase the value you bring to your organization!

Core Training

Handling Unrealistic Project Schedules

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

7

Has your boss given you a project deadline that you believe is unrealistic? Did your sales team sell a project with a due date that you simply cannot meet? These might be common situations in the project management world, but they should NOT be happening… and now you can do something about it! This course will help you understand why this situation occurs, and will present real world solutions that you can implement immediately.

Project Estimating: Advancing Critical Skills

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

7

As a project manager, can you predict how long a project will take and how much it will cost? Are you competent in the specific techniques to create defensible duration and effort estimates? Do you estimate throughout the project life cycle, and properly communicate estimates as you go? This course will help you understand why project estimating mistakes occur, and will present real-world estimating solutions that you can implement immediately on current projects.

Developing High Impact Project Communications

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

Do you experience communication-related problems on projects? Does your team struggle with knowing how, when, and what to communicate? Over 90% of what a project manager does is communication-related, and this 2-day course is designed for project managers, program managers, and team members who wish to improve communication effectiveness. This course goes beyond the basics to help project managers integrate all aspects of project communication for a high positive impact on project outcomes.

Tricks of the Trade® for Risk Management

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

16

Rita Mulcahy’s leading-edge risk management techniques are recognized by project management organizations around the world, including the Project Management Institute—which gave Rita the Professional Development Product of the Year award for her SIRK-KIT Risk Analysis Kit. Each student in this class will receive Rita’s book Risk Management, Tricks of the Trade® for Project Managers—as well as additional course handouts and supplemental materials—for free as part of course registration.

How to Buy and Sell Almost Anything on a Project

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

16

As a project manager, can you predict how long a project will take and how much it will cost? Are you competent in the specific techniques to create defensible duration and effort estimates? Do you estimate throughout the project life cycle, and properly communicate estimates as you go? This course will help you understand why project estimating mistakes occur, and will present real-world estimating solutions that you can implement immediately on current projects.

Tricks of the Trade® for Defining and Managing Requirements: A Six Step Process

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

8

This unique 1-day course combines the requirements-related processes from the PMBOK® (Project Management Book of Knowledge) and the BABOK® (Business Analysis Book of Knowledge) into an easy, six-step process. In addition to Tricks of the Trade® for eliciting requirements, this course also offers over a dozen templates designed for obtaining BETTER requirements—as well as techniques for gaining cooperation from managers, customers and all stakeholders throughout the requirements process.

Eliciting and Modeling Requirements

Duration:

3 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

21

Rita Mulcahy’s leading-edge risk management techniques are recognized by project management organizations around the world, including the Project Management Institute—which gave Rita the Professional Development Product of the Year award for her SIRK-KIT Risk Analysis Kit. Each student in this class will receive Rita’s book Risk Management, Tricks of the Trade® for Project Managers—as well as additional course handouts and supplemental materials—for free as part of course registration.

Agile Estimating & Planning

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

7

As a project manager, can you predict how long a project will take and how much it will cost? Are you competent in the specific techniques to create defensible duration and effort estimates? Do you estimate throughout the project life cycle, and properly communicate estimates as you go? This course will help you understand why project estimating mistakes occur, and will present real-world estimating solutions that you can implement immediately on current projects.

Coaching Agile Teams

Duration:

1 Day – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

7

This unique 1-day course combines the requirements-related processes from the PMBOK® (Project Management Book of Knowledge) and the BABOK® (Business Analysis Book of Knowledge) into an easy, six-step process. In addition to Tricks of the Trade® for eliciting requirements, this course also offers over a dozen templates designed for obtaining BETTER requirements—as well as techniques for gaining cooperation from managers, customers and all stakeholders throughout the requirements process.

Best Practices and Specialty Topics

15 Attributes of the Most Successful Project Managers

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

Have you ever wondered what the difference between an average project manager and a great project manager might be? Is it experience, motivation, education, people skills—or something else? And if you could find out what these differences are and learn to apply them throughout your career as a project manager, would it be worth two days of your time?

Tricks of the Trade® for Negotiation

Duration:

2 Day – 8am-5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

16

Understanding the negotiation process and creating a plan for all negotiations within a project are the keys to your success as a project manager. Learn to manage negotiations within a team environment, bypass critical deadlocks, interpret non-verbal communication, counter dirty tricks and games, and effectively say “no” with this invaluable 2-day class.

Facilitation Skills Workshop

Duration:

3 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

21

This facilitation skills workshop is designed for professionals working in project management, business analysis, traditional and agile development environments who are looking to help stakeholders more effectively communicate with each other. Being an excellent facilitator requires an understanding of human communication styles, a toolbox of techniques for working with diverse groups, and lots of practice, and this workshop leads students through the five essentials of effective facilitation: Purpose, Planning, Performance, Professionalism, and Practice—in a safe and positive environment!

Secrets of Dealing with Difficult Teams

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

As many experienced project managers know, the biggest problem encountered on projects is not related to resources or budget or technology, but to people—more specifically, communication with people. Getting people to work as a unit instead of a group of individuals is both challenging and frustrating, especially when team members are chosen ad hoc or assigned by upper management.

Business Analysis Executive Briefing

Duration:

½ Day – 8am-12pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

4

This briefing is designed for organizational executives, leaders and managers working to leverage the business analysis profession—with the goal of improving their business. Attendees will learn how other organizations have defined the role of the business analyst, as well as the differences between business analysis and project management activities.

Test-Driven Development Workshop

Duration:

3 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

21

The practice of Test Driven Development (TDD) allows an agile development team to efficiently convert user defined requirements into a well-designed, fully tested working implementation that not only meets the business need, but will also be easy and safe to extend, maintain, and enhance over time. Rather than spending weeks or months on an extended “design phase,” agile teams use TDD to evolve and optimize their design and implementation over time to meet the team’s evolving understanding of the business requirements.

Agile Product Owner Enablement

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

Agile software development employs certain principles and practices that enable development teams to quickly build and deploy high quality software products. An example of one Agile practice is to establish the Scrum Product Owner role. The Agile philosophy is to approach the system under development as a holistic product, not a series of disparate projects. This course explores the responsibilities and expectations of the Product Owner role. Students will learn how a Product Owner can infuse business priorities, goals, and vision, into a development team and thereby build highly functional systems.

Agile Team Enablement Workshop

Duration:

3 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

21

During this course, students will learn to apply the basic practices of any Agile approach, with a focus on Scrum. Participants will apply what you learn in a series of exercises that take you through project start-up, project/release planning, Sprint planning, and Sprint execution.

Tricks of the Trade® for Program Management

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

16

Tricks of the Trade® for Program Management is designed for experienced project and junior program managers, PMO managers and senior managers looking to acquire a firm grasp of specific steps in the Program Management process—or of the entire process from beginning to end. In addition, because this course teaches students how to apply International Program Management standards in the real world, it can be taken as additional prep for people looking to earn a Program Management Professional (PgMP®) Certification.

Leading SAFe

Duration:

2 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

14

In this two-day course, attendees will gain the knowledge necessary to lead an enterprise agile transformation by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework, and its underlying principles of lean thinking and product development flow. Students will leave with an understanding of how the principles and practices of the framework support Lean- Agile Programs, Scaling Agile, Lean-Agile Program Portfolio Management and Scaling Leadership.

Certification Prep Courses

PMI-ACP® Exam Prep Course

(3 Days)

Duration:

3 Days – 8am-4pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

21

This accelerated learning course is designed to help you prepare for the new PMI-ACP® Agile Certified Practitioner exam—and gain the most understanding with the least amount of study. Developed by a five-person team including four members of the PMI-ACP® Steering Committee, this course is designed to decrease your after-class study time from hundreds of hours to less than 40.

PMP® Exam Prep (10th Edition)

Live Virtual 4 Days

Duration:

4 Days 08:00 – 06:00

Contact Hours/PDUs:

36

This learning course is designed to help you prepare for PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam–and gain the most understanding of project management with the least amount of study. Based on the original courses developed by Rita Mulcahy, this course is designed to decrease your after-class study time to less than 40 hours.

PMP Combo: PM Tricks of the Trade® + 2-Day PMP® Exam Prep

Duration:

5 Days – 8am-4/5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

37

This combination course is specifically designed for project managers who need exam preparation training AND a refresher on project management fundamentals. It entails five consecutive days of training and two exceptional courses.

CAPM® Exam Prep Course

(2 Days)

Duration:

2 Days + 7 Online Hrs – 8am-5pm

Contact Hours/PDUs:

23

This accelerated learning course is designed to help you prepare for PMI’s Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) Exam—and gain the most understanding of project management with the least amount of study. Developed by Rita Mulcahy, this course is designed to decrease your after-class study time to less than 40 hours.