This course is designed to deliver a pragmatic introduction to project management principles and theory. It blends praxis and theory. The learned principles and theories are applied to a cases study, and in an extremely realistic online simulator (50% + of the course time). The essentials of project management are project definition, project selection, project planning, estimating, scheduling, resource allocation, stakeholder management, risk management and project control. Emphasis on professional skills of: communication, project management, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and networking, resilience and adaptability.

Key topics include demonstrating the understanding of and competence in managing:

  • Scope: defines a description of the work to be accomplished by the project team;
  • Schedule: defines and executes the tasks and resources to be done so that the project is completed on time; 
  • Budget: estimates and controls resources and costs so that the project will be completed within the allocated costs; 
  • Resources: defines the acquisition, development, and management the project team; 
  • Communications: defines the creation and management of timely, targeted and effective communications; 
  • Risk: defines how to manage various risk aspects of the project through mitigation and contingencies; 
  • Stakeholders: defines the activities required to identify and manage the individuals, groups, or organizations that can impact the project.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to understand how to run a project to be within scope, budget and schedule.

In person, two full days in June
Tuesday, June 23, 2026: 8:30am-5:00pm (hour for lunch)
Wednesday, June 24, 2026: 8:30am-5:00pm (hour for lunch)
 

Faculty: Jim Ranieri, MBA is the former President and CEO of NavigatorGroup, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in customer engagement processes such as software definition and deployment, training and development, and change management. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology and an MBA, and is a former Air Force officer and aviator. He has held positions in sales, marketing, sales management, training and development, and project management. Jim has managed more than 20 capital projects as well as over 20 training and software deployment projects, including implementations of SAP, Microsoft Great Plains and Dynamics, and Salesforce.com.