Participants should leave this class with the knowledge, tasks, and skills salience to the role of project management, specifically, the following learning objectives:

1. People: emphasizing the soft skills you need to effectively lead a project team in today's changing environment.
2. Process: reinforcing the technical aspects of successfully managing projects.
3. Business Environment: highlighting the connection between projects and organizational strategy. 
4. Different Project Approaches: understanding the three different project approaches (Predictive (waterfall), Agile, and Hybrid).

The goal for Participants’ is to demonstrate an understanding of the following skills:

1. Leadership skills and techniques to lead and support a project team through to a successful project completion.
2. Manage conflict to the appropriate resolution solution, while maintaining team and knowledge transfer to support team performance as the team achieve that goal.
3. Communicating and articulating clearly to foster collaboration on what your team does and with stakeholders associated with the project.
4. Setting up a realistic schedule and then manage all resources to keep on track so the project can be successfully concluded on time.
5. Creating a realistic budget that meets the financial needs of the project and controlling costs throughout the execution of the project.
6. Negotiating stakeholders’ demands that can impact the scope of the project, while being objective as you can in analyzing and evaluating issues.