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Project Management

Stop all the wishful thinking.  Make your way to the Mattapan School of Technology where a group of experts can help you make your path toward real world success. The Mattapan Tech Project Management Certificate Program is an accelerated course designed to provide you with necessary training to become a skilled project manager for the project management industry. Our students meet with their instructor once every week for 3 hours . 

We designed the program to help you develop critical leadership abilities that are important for non-profit organizations, businesses, and government positions managing projects.  Our students are exposed to core competencies in general management, such as leadership, business planning, team building, marketing and financial management. Our curriculum consists of: project planning, project cost and scheduling, control, risk management, evaluation and performance. In addition, students will be introduced to Microsoft Office applications: new office documents, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Possible job opportunities for our graduates include project managers, non-profit management, IT management, business analysts, project engineers, operations coordinators and field service engineers.

We take only 12 students per class.   Registration fee $60, lab fee: $300

Class runs for 20  weeks. Students attend class for 3 hours once a week.

Pre-requisite: Basic computer skills

A certified Project Manager earns 60K to 70K per year

This class will begin on Thursday, Feb. 25 at 6:15pm.

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The academic team of the Mattapan  have retained the following text books for the Project Management Class: The Fifth Discipline and The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management.

Week 1. - School Policies, Intro to Project Management, Project Management Process Groups

Week 2. - Intro to Project Management, Project Management Knowledge Areas

Week 3. - Intro to Project Management, Key Skills of Project Managers

Week 4. - Intro to Project Management, Essential Project Manager Toolkit

Week 5. - Intro to Project Management, Trends in Project Management

Week 6. - Intro to Project Management, Essential Elements for a Successful Project, Quiz

Week 7. - Project Planning, Defining a Project, Planning a Project

Week 8. - Project Planning, Developing a Work Breakdown Structure, Estimating the Work

Week 9. - Project Planning, Determining the Project Budget, Quiz

Week10. - Intro to Project Control, Controlling a Project, Managing Project Change, Managing Project Deliverables

Week11. - Intro to Project Control, Managing Project Issues, Managing Project Risk

Week 12. - Intro to Project Control, Managing Project Qualities, Quiz

Week 13. - Intro to Project Execution, How to Lead a Project, How to Mange the Project Expectations

Week 14. - Intro to Project Execution, How to Manage Project Communication, Keys to Better Team Performance

Week 15. - Intro to Project Execution, Managing Differences, Managing Vendors, Quiz

Week 16. - Ending a Project

Week 17. - Quiz

Week 18. -Group Project

Week 19. - Group Project

Week 20. - Final Project

 

This class will also include computer training, Basic Accounting and Team Building

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Below is the curriculum for the 3rd hour of Project Management.

Week 1 - Intro to Teams, Intro to 5 Disciplines
Week 2 - Personal Mastery
Week 3 - Mental Models
Week 4 - Shared Vision
Week 5 - Team Learning
Week 6 - Systems Thinking
Week 7 - Intro to Financial Statements
Week 8 - Reading & Creating Profit & Loss
Week 9 - Reading & Creating Invoices and Expense Reports
Week 10 - Practice with Excel
Week 11 - Practice with Excel
Week 12 - Practice with Excel
Week 13 - Intro to PowerPoint
Week 14 - Using PowerPoint templates to create a Company Meeting show
Week 15 - Using PowerPoint templates to create a Project Status show
Week 16 - Using PowerPoint templates to create a Marketing Plan
Week 17 - Using PowerPoint templates to create a Business Plan
Week 18 - Group Project
Week 19 - Group Project
Week 20 - Group Project Presentation

About the Project Management Institute Certifications

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