Beginners
You're a first-time project manager—either accidentally or on purpose—and need the PM basics. AMA Project Management Learning Solutions for Beginners will help you to identify, understand, and apply basic project management procedures whether you are on a team or in your own functional area. Highlights include:
- Project Management Essentials for Non-Project Managers: (Course # 6548): Gain the PM skills you need to function on a project team. This seminar provides a great introduction to the PM discipline, especially If you want to become a PMP but don't know where to start.
- Microsoft Project: Every project manager's best friend.
- Nine Knowledge Areas of the PMBOK: The international standard of project management knowledge.
- The 21st Century Career: The way we work has changed. Understand the importance of project management in the global economy.
- Information Technology Project Management: If IT is your area of focus, AMA offers a number of solutions that will rbing every IT project online more effectively, more quickly, and within budget.
All AMA courses are aligned within the Project Management Institute's (PMI) framework, and are specifically designed to focus on the practical application of proven-in-action concepts. Take the first step with AMA Project Management Learning Solutions for Beginners.
AMA is a Registered Education Provider of PMI®, “PMI” and “PMBOK” are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
First:
Seminars:
Essentials of Project Management for the Nonproject Manager
Develop an understanding of essential terminology and apply basic PM tools and techniques to increase your effectiveness both on the team and in your own functional area.
Managing Projects Using Microsoft Project
Leave this seminar equipped to use the powerful Microsoft Project tool!
Webcasts:
C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan on the New Age of Innovation
To successfully compete in 21st-century business, companies must reinvent their processes and culture in order to sustain innovative solutions.
Project Management for the Accidental Project Manager – A Basic “How to” Approach
Practical advice, a simple process, and easy-to-use software for successfully managing projects.
Articles:
Project Management Success: It All Begins with Communication
Strategies from the AMA seminar Project Team Leadership: Building Commitment Through Superior Communication.
Climb (or Blow Up) Every Mountain: Five Steps to Overcoming Obstacles
If you come up against a thorny problem on the job, think of it as a mountain. True, it's been said that you can't move mountains; but you may be able to find a way around it, through it or over it. Or maybe you'll just have to blow it up...
Then:
Seminars:
Improving Your Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success
Build a solid foundation of project management knowledge, techniques, and tools in this hands-on workshop that covers the entire project life cycle.
Business Analysis Fundamentals
This hands-on seminar can help ensure that you and your company choose and implement the right solutions for all future projects and initiatives.
Webcasts:
Essential Skills for the 21st Century Workplace
To meet the challenges of the 21st century, people need to become proficient in 21st century skills: critical thinking and problems solving, communication and collaboration...
Articles:
A 10-point Checklist for Project Managers
Tips for project managers to keep any project on time and on track.
The 10% Push
As a project manager, engineer, or key team member, we all know too well to win work in this competitive environment, your proposal must fly above the crowd.
Polish With:
Seminars:
Technical Project Management
A best-selling seminar for managers and team members involved in technical project management!
Information Technology Project Management
Discover how to optimize IT development and delivery processes so that you can bring every information technology project online more effectively, more quickly and on budget.
Webcasts:
Make the Right Call—Tools to Guide Critical Financial Decisions
As the pressure builds to make an endless stream of make-or-break business decisions, you need time-tested, real world help to make the savviest—most profitable—choices, every time!
Articles:
Project Management Terminology Quiz
Test your knowledge of 10 project management terms.
The Risky Business of Project Management
Even the most basic, everyday project carries some degree of risk. An effective risk management process involves identifying and implementing appropriate and ongoing risk-control strategies. Read on for the fundamental steps in project risk...