Project Management Training and Your Career FAQs

Wondering how project management training and PMI PMP or CAPM certification exam preparation courses can help your career? Discover how courses taught by Boston University's thought leaders can help you acquire new skills, build successful teams — even increase your earning power.

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1. How will project management courses help me do my job better?
2. I'm working in IT. Can project management training help me?
3. I'm already an experienced project manager. How will project management courses enhance my skills?

(1) How will project management courses help me do my job better?
Most attendees of Boston University's project management training tell us: "I have been a project or program manager (PM) for some time, but I have never had a course on project management. I'd like to find out what the discipline really involves." Many companies are now making project management credentials a de facto standard for hiring project managers. Also, true project management is an ever-changing, dynamic practice.

Project management is about understanding client expectations, creating and managing project teams to meet those expectations, reporting project status and ensuring project success. A project manager or team member needs all the skills they can get to help ensure that they deliver projects to meet customer expectations on time and within budget. For more information read the article, "Eight powerful ways project management training will boost your career". The major benefits of project management include the following:

• Project management skills will improve your communication skills and provide your team with a common language, resulting in more effective communication.
• You will learn how to report project status effectively and accurately to the CEO and other executives.
• You will develop the skills to manage teams across organizational and global boundaries.
• You will be able to develop accurate project schedules to help you meet timelines, track resources and deliver projects on time.
• You will be able to determine the correct number and type of resources for your project to ensure its success.
• You will develop team-building skills to keep individuals who don’t report to you interested in the project, fulfilled within their role and committed to the project’s success.
• You will be a more valuable contributor to your company, realize increases in your salary and receive recognition within your organization through potential job promotions.

Review our project management courses and find the ones that fit your needs, or contact our training consultants for recommendations and assistance.

(2) I’m working in IT. Can project management training help me?
We often hear about doing more with less in IT project environments. Therefore, IT project managers need to focus on a unique subset of project management methodologies. Additionally, many project teams have operations and maintenance responsibilities long after the original project success factors have been attained. The right project management skills will help you take control over scheduling, resources, budgets and risks, and teach you to avoid the common problems that face IT projects today.

Now you can master IT project management in today's competitive environment. Contact us to learn about our expert instructors and specialized IT project management courses.

(3) I'm already an experienced project manager. How will project management courses enhance my skills?
Project management techniques and tools are ever evolving. It is the project manager’s responsibility to stay current and to implement best practices in their own projects to enhance the opportunity for a project’s success. Project managers are encouraged, by the nature of the competitive marketplace, to seek out ways to get higher-quality products out faster and cheaper than their competition.

Advanced courses also act like a flight simulator, where all project managers can try out new project management ideas in a controlled environment (i.e., the classroom) and survive the possible “crash and burn” of learning new tools and techniques. Earn PDUs through Boston University to retain your PMP certification.

Discover more about Boston University's project management training and PMP courses. Call us at 1-800-BU-TRAIN (288-7246), or contact us for your obligation-free, customized assessment of your needs.