Program Overview

Advanced Project Management (APM) Program

The Advanced Project Management (APM) program is designed for experienced professionals seeking to enhance their project management skills. This flexible program allows participants to choose from five electives to inject new skills into their repertoire and tackle complex challenges in their organization.

Program Details

• Course Code: AdvPM
• Start Date: N/A
• Time: N/A
• Duration: 80 Hours
• Program Type: Open-Enrollment/Public
• Certificate Type: FlexCert
• Format: Self-Paced Online
• CEUs: 8
• PDUs: 80
• Fees: $6,550

Program Experience

The APM program provides tailored learning with an asynchronous, online format. Participants have ongoing access to course materials via the Learning Management System and direct interaction with instructors for assignments and queries. The program allows participants to earn a certificate by taking any of the five short courses, which can also be taken individually to upskill specific needs.

Benefits

The program facilitates real impact through small groups working on actual problems, which, with Caltech coaching and structure, grow individuals, teams, and organizations to adapt to new challenges. Participants develop new mindsets, technology skills, and leadership capacity to master complex issues that challenge their organization today.

Topics

The program covers various topics, including:

• Project Rescue & Recovery: Recognize signs of impending project failure and take effective actions to resolve problems, re-plan, and re-negotiate stakeholder expectations.
• Managing Supplier Performance: Strategies and techniques using agile principles to manage project suppliers and supply chains.
• Critical Communications: Storytelling & Presentations: Techniques for motivating and persuading professional colleagues and customers in presentations and status reports.
• Leading Organizational Change: Enhance personal leadership style in a changing environment.
• Predictability & Flexibility: Juggling Multiple Projects: Proven methodologies and techniques for successfully managing concurrent projects.
• Managing New Product Development: Tools and methods designed for the new product development environment.
• Leading Effective Complex Projects: Effective leadership principles and practical methods for decision-making, conflict management, communications, and team development.
• Agile Techniques for Project Management: Real-world examples from Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and other Agile methods.
• Dealing With Project Change: Proven techniques for dealing with project change.
• Managing Without Authority: Personal effectiveness in complex environments.

Who Should Attend

The program is designed for technical professionals and senior practitioners aspiring to achieve advanced levels of expertise, take effective and transformative action, inspire others, and communicate with clarity. Participants should have at least five years of experience managing projects.

Flexible Features

• Choose from 10 short courses, and complete only five to obtain a Caltech certificate that fits specific needs.
• Fee: $1,310 for each course.
• Hours and Credits: Participants will earn 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) or 1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for each two-day course attended.

Schedule

The program schedule includes various courses, each with a specific format and date:

• Managing Supplier Performance: Self-Paced Online
• Critical Communications: Storytelling & Presentations: Self-Paced Online
• Leading Organizational Change: Self-Paced Online
• Predictability & Flexibility: Juggling Multiple Projects: Self-Paced Online
• Managing New Product Development: Self-Paced Online
• Leading Effective Complex Projects: Self-Paced Online
• Agile Techniques for Project Management: Self-Paced Online
• Dealing with Project Change: Self-Paced Online
• Managing Without Authority: Self-Paced Online
• Project Rescue and Recovery: Self-Paced Online

Instructors

The program instructors include:

• Tim Boyd: Leadership, Systems Engineering, Project Management
• Michael Brenner: Systems Engineering, Model-Based Engineering (MBSE), Aerospace Project Management
• Nathaniel Crews: Agile Project Management, Systems Engineering, Coaching
• Rick Hefner, PhD: CTME Executive Director
• Steve McNamara: Project Management
• David Shostak: Systems Engineering, Aerospace Project Management