Project Environment and Value Delivery

It is recommended that the Project Environment and Value Delivery course be taken first if students plan to complete the entire Project Management certificate program as it provides a critical overall foundation to the remaining material.

Organizations execute projects to assist them achieve their strategic objectives. To run efficiently, projects need a framework and contributors that minimize problems and advance needed work. They need processes that ensure results, that communicate progress to interested parties, and that manage potentially disruptive risks and issues. Ultimately projects need to deliver benefits and value to their stakeholders.

Projects do not operate in a vacuum; they are susceptible to the many factors within and around them. These factors, known collectively as the project environment, are based on principles and domains which are foundational to the success of today’s complex projects.

Factors include strategic alignment, value creation, organizational governance, uncertainty, and leadership. Course participants will learn critical project management principles and domains, and how to effectively integrate these as part of a successful project environment and organizational management approach.