Advanced Project Management Certificate Program (APM) 

offered by Caltech

Establish priorities among multiple projects (even working with multiple supervisors!)

Delegate appropriately while maintaining control and ensuring you stay on plan

Track multiple projects with minimal effort, focusing on critical actions

Communicate status and gain needed resources

Eliminate bureaucracy and use your time more efficiently

Use key market research tools at each stage of the NPD process

Scope and scale your development process

Determine the validity of your project requirements

Select the appropriate lifecycle approach

Ask critical questions at each stage of the NPD process

Recognize and avoid common pitfalls

Evaluate your personal mindset regarding change

Identify the impacts of change ? personal, project, organizational

Identify organizational needs and translate them into impactful result

Select and implement strategies to overcome pockets of organizational resistance

Build buy-in across all levels of your organization

Identify factors that make a project complex

Make effective decisions under uncertain conditions

Manage conflict without draining your energy

Apply systems thinking principles and tools to project management

Communicate decisions to your team and senior management

Apply Agile concepts such as Value-Driven Delivery and Stakeholder Engagement

Conduct a Daily Scrum meeting

Establish an Agile team environment that encourages high-performance

Effectively manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality using Agile methods

Plan a project in a way that anticipates change

Scope and evaluate the proposed value of a change

Identifies costs and risks associated with a change

Communicate the risks of change to senior management

Incorporate needed changes in an efficient manner