IFPPM

Online Courses

Get lifetime access to online training to help you in the years ahead.  IFPPM courses have been taken by more than 150K students and are watched for more than 2M minutes a year.  Includes access to all six courses plus the DPPM certification exam for only $40, free for non-profits.  Check out the courses below to preview each one.

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Convenient online courses to accelerate your career

1 – Deeply Practical Project Management

The main course, describes the core thread of deeply practical processes that maximize the chances of project success, in only 8.5 hours.  Covers all five stages of initiation, planning, executing, monitoring & control, and closing.  Hundreds of practical tips and tricks.  Applies to projects of any size from any domain.  The perfect preparation for writing the exam to earn your DPPM certification.  Lifetime access to provide invaluable assistance as you manage your projects in the years ahead.

2 – Project Management Basics

This course is a more concise version of the full DPPM course with some additional introductory concepts, aimed at new project managers and those that want a quick overview or refresher, in under two hours.  The course explains the most important concepts in project management, what project management does, how it flows across the life-cycle, and the key steps you need to take to make your project successful.  A summary lecture wraps up all the key points in one concise list.

3 – Project Management Lessons Learned

A next level course for experienced project managers, describing the ten most important lessons learned that contribute to project success, in under two hours. Includes real life stories of common difficult situations and the best way to handle them.  Real examples from a $140M project.  First provides a multi-decade shortcut to help you become the most effective project manager and leader of teams for even the largest, most complex, and most challenging projects.

4 – Management & Leadership

A consolidated subset of the main DPPM course focused on the most important principles of management and leadership, in 90 minutes.  Provides a concentrated overview of the key principles of communication, team management, negotiation, and leadership applicable to any kind of management or leadership position.  Then describes the essential management functions through initiation, planning, executing, monitoring & control, and closing.

5 – Risk Management

A consolidated subset of the DPPM course focusing on the essentials of risk management, in 40 minutes. Risk management makes all of the rest of project management work, because when you have extra time and money you can turn the project into a game of trying not to use it all up. Walks through the six steps of the professional risk planning process from identification to response planning, opportunity planning, and managing the budget once under way.

6 – Earned Value Management (EVM)

A subset of the DPPM course focusing just on the advanced monitoring & control technique of Earned Value Management (EVM) used for the largest and most important projects, in only 15 minutes.  Describes how EVM metrics are calculated, how cost projections are made, and how schedule projections are made. The fundamental meaning of all the metrics is summarized.  And an example is provided showing the practical utility of EVM in practice.

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