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IBM IT Project Manager Professional Certificate
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IBM IT Project Manager Professional Certificate

Prepare for career as an IT project manager. Develop in-demand skills and hands-on experience to get job ready in less than 3 months. No prior experience required

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IBM Skills Network Team
Daniel C. Yeomans

Instructors: John Rofrano

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Professional Certificate - 9 course series

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Beginner level
No prior experience required
4 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn

  • Master the most up-to-date practical skills and tools IT project managers use in their daily roles

  • Learn Agile concepts of adaptive planning, iterative development, and continuous improvement leading to early deliveries and high customer value

  • Track and manage projects, including addressing difficult client situations and how activities shift throughout the project management lifecycle

  • Apply your new skills to real-world projects and hands-on labs

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Professional Certificate - 9 course series

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4.8

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Beginner level
No prior experience required
4 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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Prepare for a career in IT Project Management

  • Receive professional-level training from IBM
  • Demonstrate your proficiency in portfolio-ready projects
  • Earn an employer-recognized certificate from IBM
  • Qualify for in-demand job titles: IT Project Manager, Technical Project Manager, IT Program Manager
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$117,000+
median U.S. salary for IT Project Management
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120,000+
U.S. job openings in IT Project Management
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¹Lightcast™ Job Postings Report, United States, 7/1/22-6/30/23. ²Based on program graduate survey responses, United States 2021.

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Professional Certificate - 9 course series

Introduction to Project Management

Course 19 hours4.8 (619 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Explain project management, its benefits, and the role it plays in projects

  • Describe who project managers work with, different project management methodologies, and recent trends in project management

  • Summarize the typical responsibilities of a project manager and the skill sets needed to fulfill those responsibilities

  • Compare and contrast different industries, paths, and possible career progressions available to project management professionals

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Management
Category: Communication
Category: Leadership
Category: Stakeholder Management

Project Management Foundations, Initiation, and Planning

Course 220 hours4.7 (134 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Compare and contrast predictive and adaptive project management models

  • Investigate how to lead effective meetings and how motivating your team can lead to project success

  • Create planning documents and others that help you scope a project, plan project schedules, and create accurate budgets

  • Apply processes and tools that drive project initiation

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Management
Category: Risk Management
Category: Systems Development Life Cycle
Category: Information sharing

What you'll learn

  • Describe different project lifecycles including waterfall and adaptive lifecycles.

  • Demonstrate information sharing techniques to improve communication effectiveness with team members and external stakeholders.

  • Perform an end-to-end risk analysis including SWOT analysis, risk register, and risk matrix.

  • Create executable risk response strategies to avoid or mitigate threats and exploit or enhance opportunities.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Management
Category: Project Planning
Category: Project initiation

What you'll learn

  • Discuss ways to foster a healthy environment for team members and explain the effects of empowering team members.

  • Demonstrate better project communications by applying different communication skills and mediums.

  • Apply leadership skills to get positive project outcomes, build trusting teams, and establish strong stakeholder relationships.

  • Demonstrate increased stakeholder engagement by applying the knowledge and skills to acquire resources and keep stakeholders involved in the project.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Management
Category: Information Technology
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: security
Category: Operating Systems

Information Technology (IT) Fundamentals for Everyone

Course 518 hours4.7 (78 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Define operating systems, computer components, programming concepts, databases, and explain the differences between commercial and open software

  • Summarize the importance of computer networks, including wired and wireless connections; explore network resources and storage types in MS Windows

  • Describe how to protect against security threats, address public browsing security concerns, and list password management best practices

  • List the benefits of cloud computing, describe the cloud infrastructure layer, virtual machines, and summarize features of ticketing systems

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Management
Category: Risk Management
Category: Agile Management
Category: Leadership
Category: Scrum (Software Development)

Introduction to Software Engineering

Course 614 hours4.7 (813 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe software engineering, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and software development tools, technologies and stacks.

  • List different types of programming languages and create basic programming constructs such as loops and conditions using Python. 

  • Outline approaches to application architecture and design, patterns, and deployment architectures. 

  • Summarize the skills required in software engineering and describe the career options it provides.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Scrum Master
Category: Kanban
Category: Sprints
Category: Product Backlog
Category: User Story

Introduction to Scrum Master Profession

Course 79 hours4.6 (134 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Summarize the role of the Scrum Master to include a position description, benefits of the position, and key skills essential to success.

  • Compare and contrast the role of the Scrum Master to a traditional project manager.

  • Describe opportunities for Scrum Masters in the current work environment to include potential employment, job requirements, and salary ranges.

  • Define certification opportunities in Agile and Scrum to include Scrum Alliance CSM, PMI-ACP, and PMI-DASM.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Engineering
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Python Programming
Category: Agile and Scrum
Category: Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum

Course 89 hours4.9 (1,632 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Adopt the 5 practices of Agile, a subset of DevOps: small batches, minimum viable product, pair programming, behavior- and test-driven development.

  • Write good user stories, estimate and assign story points and track stories using a kanban board. Incorporate Scrum artifacts, events, and benefits.

  • Create and refine a product backlog using the sprint planning process. Produce potentially shippable product increments with every iteration.

  • Create burndown charts to forecast the ability to meet a sprint goal. Use metrics to enhance performance, productivity, and client satisfaction.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Management
Category: Scrum Master
Category: Career Development
Category: Project Planning
Category: Agile PM

Project Management Capstone

Course 918 hours5.0 (27 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate end-to-end project knowledge of Project Manager capabilities

  • Manage scope, resources, and kick off a project as a project manager

  • Plan a project using adaptive methodologies such as Scrum and Sprints

  • Create predictive method artefacts such as a work breakdown structure, network diagram, quality and communications plans, and a risk register

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kanban
Category: Zenhub
Category: Scrum Methodology
Category: Agile Software Development
Category: Sprint Planning

Instructors

IBM Skills Network Team
IBM
52 Courses732,619 learners
Daniel C. Yeomans
SkillUp EdTech
14 Courses26,821 learners
Skill-Up EdTech Team
SkillUp EdTech
37 Courses35,362 learners

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