The Academy of Computer education, which has been training professionals in the Baltimore and Washington area since 2003, is recording its largest year for
PMP training. The PMP has grown in popularity year after year and recently, many contractors are requiring their project manager employees to have the PMP certification so that they can add the credential to their contract bids.
PMP stands for Project Management Professional. The training courses will be beneficial to all managers from a range of industries including IT. Similarly, individuals who are interested in strengthening their knowledge and skills in project management and who are interested in learning to understand and apply the full project life cycle will also benefit from this course.
Additionally, project managers, project consultants, manufacturing and industrial engineers, system analysts, quality specialists and consultants, and process engineers will also benefit from the training course. Candidates who are interested in the course should already have some degree of familiarity with both Microsoft Project software and Project Management Concepts.
The benefits of PMP training are numerous. In the training course, students are taught to initiate, plan, develop, and execute projects. Planning instruction includes direct instruction in scope, work breakdown structuring, and other elements of planning projects. Development includes instruction in how to develop schedules for projects, create estimates of costs, and budget for the process.
There is also training in how to analyze risks and plan responses to risks, as well as how to plan project procurements. Monitoring skills are also taught within the training course, as students learn to monitor and control project work, schedules and costs, quality, staffing, and communications, and risks and contracts. Finally, every project must eventually be closed, and the PMP training course includes instruction in how to close projects and plan for follow ups as needed.
When students have completed the PMP training course, they will be skilled in coordinating teams, soliticing ideal sponsors for projects, setting realistic schedules and budgets, and outlining and building detailed project plans. They will also be capable of making estimates that are accurate and handling customer and management expectations.
Due to the wide range of skills taught to candidates, it is no surprise that PMP training has become as popular as it currently is among professionals looking to broaden their skills and increase their marketability in the workforce. Certification award requirements by the Project Management Institute, or PMI, include at least 4,500 hours of project management experience for bachelor degree holders and 7,500 hours for non degree holders, in addition to 35 learning credit hours.
Training is available in a number of cities in the Baltimore and Washington area, including Alexandria, Arlington, Baltimore, Fairfax, Herndon, Norfolk, Reston, Richmond, and Sterling. The total cost for the PMP course is $2495, which is highly affordable when one consideres that Element K PMP Courseware and Transcender Practice Test Software are included in the totlal price, as is the Project Management Body of Knowledge, or PMBOK. The total time span of the course is 40 hours.
