| Begin or advance project
management careers at Alphaware Training
Centers. While attending our project management
classes, you will learn methods and tools
to implement and improve Project Portfolio
Management and Reporting, as well as exercise
better control over project spending. Learn
project management solution best practices
and earn your project management certificate. |
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PMP® training in Houston now.
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PMP® and CAPM®
Certification Information
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Perhaps the biggest trend in IT training
and certification is towards Project Management.
Information technology professionals are
acquiring project management skills as rapidly
as the IT platforms they support. PMI®'s
PMP® certification has become the "must
have" of all non technical certifications
in information technology. But what about
those professionals who don't have the prerequisite
knowledge or skill sets to take the PMP®
test? Introducing the CAPM® (Certified
Associate in Project Management). The skills
learned are the same but the test doesn't
require the same degree of practical experience.
Get the facts on the differences in PMP®
and CAPM® certification.
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Project Management Learning Guides |
| The Project Management
classes offered at the Houston center are
based in part on the Project Management
Institute’s, "A Guide to the Project
Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK®
Guide)- Fourth Edition, Project Management
Institute, Inc 2008. Some of the courses
prepare students for the PMI® project
management certificate, while others focus
on establishing or advancing project management
careers. These courses are based on over
30 years of facilitated sessions conducted
for major international enterprises and
are a proven source for project management
training and PMP® certification in Houston.
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Find detailed course syllabi
links in the
Courses and Schedules
page. |
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A brief description of courses for
Project Managers |
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Microsoft Project
2007 (2
Day Class - 14 PDU credits) |
| You need to gather information
about the various tasks involved, resources
required to accomplish the tasks, and the
overall cost in order to plan a project.
Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2007/2010
acts as a tool that assists you in managing
your projects. In this course, you will
create and modify a project plan
containing tasks, organize these tasks in
a work breakdown structure containing task
relationships, create and assign resources,
and finalize the project to implement the
project plan. This course is designed for
a person who has an understanding of project
management concepts, who is responsible
for creating and modifying project plans,
and who needs a tool to manage these project
plans. |
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Applying Project
Management Methodology (3
Day Class - 21 PDU credits) |
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This
three-day course provides participants with
a solid foundation of PMI’s project management
methodology, using the PMBOK®Guide-Fourth
Edition as the source material. Participants
will choose a real-world project taken directly
from their industry, and apply the PMBOK®Guide
processes involved in initiating, planning,
executing, monitoring, controlling, and
closing a project. Participants will engage
in numerous discussion groups focusing on
best practices, as well as complete numerous
templates for their real-world projects.
Participants take all electronic templates
and completed exercises with them after
the class.
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Preparing for thePMP®/CAPM®
Certification Exam
(4 Day Class - 35 PDU credits) |
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This 35 contact hour course
prepares participants to take the PMP®
(Project Management Professional) certification
exam. The PMP® certification is authored
and maintained by the Project Management
Institute®, a non-profit organization
that collects and disseminates project management
best practices. Prerequisites: PMP®
candidates with a four-year degree must
have 4500 hours of project management experience
in the last eight years. PMP® candidates
with a high school equivalent must have
7500 hours of project management experience
in the last eight years.
Included with the course
is a comprehensive student manual,
a copy of the PMBOK Guide®
- 4th Edition and a 180 day license to MeasureUp's©
exam prep on-line exam preparation software
($159 value) with 650+ questions. |
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Effectively
Implementing a Project Management Office
(PMO)
(2 Day Class - 14 PDU credits) |
| Project Management Offices
have become increasingly popular in the
past few years, as companies are more than
ever striving to optimize the execution
of internal processes and projects and drive
out unnecessary cost wherever possible.
Establishing a PMO is viewed by many organizations
as a critical success factor for the alignment
of company and business strategies for effective
project management and for project portfolio
reporting to key stakeholders. |
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| Facilitation is a technique
designed to dramatically increase productivity
in meetings and extract high-quality information
within a compressed timeframe. Using a structured
facilitated meeting approach allows individuals
and teams to develop clear deliverables
and consensus-based decisions.
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| About
the Project Management Instructional Staff |
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All Project Management instructors
that teach project management related
courses are
certified Project Management Professionals
(PMP) and Facilitation courses are taught
by experienced JAD Session Leaders.
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Brian Salk
PMP
Brian,
M.A.Ed., PMP, has helped hundreds of candidates
earn their PMP® over the last ten years.
He served as a contributing author and reviewer
for several books, including A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge®,
Third Edition. This book is the primary
source of subjects found on the PMP®
exam. Brian also contributed content to
the PMP® Exam Success Series Manual,
a bestselling and highly received book that
prepares candidates for the exam.
Brian’s
teaching style is highly interactive, and
tailored to the unique learning styles of
individual students. He has over 20 years
of corporate teaching experience, and has
won the Worldwide Excellence in Training
award four times in the last five years.
This award recognizes extremely high student
satisfaction with the training experience.
Brian is available to train virtually anywhere
in the world.
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Mike Trimble
PMP
Michael (Mike) Trimble is an excellent management
instructor and on-site corporate trainer.
He is a Project Management Professional
(PMP®) through the Project Management
Institute (PMI®) and a certified Six
Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) through the American
Society for Quality (ASQ). His background
includes over 10 years of executive level
profit and loss (P&L) responsibility
leading businesses through high growth,
performance optimization, continuous improvement,
and enhanced profitability. Mike has used
his project management and Six Sigma skills
to successfully manage enterprise level
project portfolios, strategic business initiatives,
programs valued in excess of a hundred million
dollars, and complex crossfunctional projects.
He has worked in numerous industries and
regularly teaches others how to apply these
proven methods in all functional disciplines.
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Larry Ellsworth
PMP
Larry’s career spans
over 30 years of extensive leadership and
management experience. He has managed
high visibility projects including successful
multimillion Y2K compliance effort. In
addition, Larry has extensive experience
in establishing and managing PMOs and in
developing and delivering project management
training programs. Larry holds a BA
from Rice University and is a Certified
Project Management Professional.
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Walter A. Viali, PMP
Walter is a Certified
Project Management Professional (PMP®)
and was a Certified Software Quality Analyst
(CSQA) for several years. Walter is also
a Certified Project Management Instructor
and an experienced Joint Application Development
(JAD) Facilitator. As a Project Management
Consultant, Walter provides services on
all aspects of Strategic Planning, Process,
Project Portfolio Management and Project
Management Office (PMO) implementation.
Walter was a member of the PMI® team
that developed the Organizational Project
Management Maturity Model (OPM3)released
at the end of 2003. He has performed several
process assessments based on the Software
Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability
Maturity Model (CMM), as well as Portfolio,
Program and Project Management assessments
based on OPM3. He has also led over 4,500
hours of Facilitated Joint Application Development
sessions in the U.S., Europe and Asia in
all phases of strategic planning, application
development and process redesign. He is
a frequent speaker at seminars, conferences
and PMI events. Walter was the 2007 President
of the PMI® Houston Chapter, one of
the largest PMI® Chapters in the world.
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Don James
PMP
Don has decades of International experience
in successful implementation, QA/QC, deployment,
and support of business application products.
Project Manager and business analysis consultant
for worldwide Supply Chain and Strategic
Sourcing initiatives. Skills, knowledge,
and experience in product and project management
of the life cycle and QA/QC of application
software for organizations that implement
continuous product and process improvement.
He is currently an Adjunct Professor for
Project Management at Lone Star College
in Tomball, TX.
PMP, CAPM, PMBOK®
Guide, PMI are registered trademarks
of the Project Management Institute Inc
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