Graduate Certificate in Project Management George Brown College - St. James Campus, Canada

Upon graduating from the Project Management program, you’ll be armed with the knowledge and skills to succeed in business and project management. As part of your learning experience, you’ll implement Project Management Institute knowledge areas like processes, lifecycle phases and the embodied concepts, and other tools and techniques. As issues arise both internally and externally, you’ll learn how to adapt your project in response.

Here are some skills you’ll be able to show off after completion of the Project Management postgraduate program:

• Applying project management practices to the launch of new programs, initiatives, products, services, and events that meet stakeholder demands
• Aligning a project to an organization's strategic plans
• Helping projects succeed by implementing business concepts, practices, and tools
• Adapting project management practices to suit stakeholders from multiple industries

Program Learning Outcomes
The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Manage the scope, cost, timing, and quality of the project, at all times focused on project success as defined by project stakeholders.
• Align the project to the organization's strategic plans and business justification throughout its lifecycle.
• Identify project goals, constraints, deliverables, performance criteria, control needs, and resource requirements in consultation with stakeholders.
• Implement the PMI project management knowledge areas, processes, lifecycle phases and the embodied concepts, tools and techniques in order to achieve project success.
• Adapt projects in response to issues that arise internally and externally.
• Interact with team and stakeholders in a professional manner, respecting differences, to ensure a collaborative project environment.
• Utilize technology tools for communication, collaboration, information management and decision support.
• Implement general business concepts, practices and tools to facilitate project success.
• Reflect on their role and effectiveness as a leader and follower.
• Apply appropriate legal and ethical standards.
• Adapt project management practices to meet the needs of stakeholders from multiple sectors of the economy (i.e., manufacturing, technology, consulting, government, arts, media and not-for-profit organizations).
• Apply project management practices to the launch of new programs, initiatives, products, services and events relative to the needs of stakeholders.
• Appraise the role of project management in organizational change.