Short description

This guide will help you to direct your reading and studying through all the process of getting the PMP (Project Manager Professional) Certification from PMI (Project Management Institute).
Our study group has been assembled through the connection of Armenian Project Management Association so all communication will be directed on Official APMA Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/armenianpm

The Aim of this Study group is to get all people in one team studying in same sequence and time schedule about PMP

In case of fulfilment of PMP exam we have to cover following topics:

• Project Initiation
• Establishing a Framework
• Resource Management
• Project Planning and Execution
• Scope Management
• Quality Assurance
• Measuring Performance
• Risk Management and Response
• Project Closing
• Professional Responsibility

Participants

1. Albert Poghosyan
2. Aleksandr Bakhshetyan
3. Mikhayel Nshanyan
4. Vahan Sahakyan
5. Gevorg Hambardzumyan
6. Armen Kocharyan
7. Arsen Gevorgyan
8. Edgar Khachatryan
9. Armen Shahbazyan

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American University of Armenia
Extension Program

Project Management Training

COURSE OUTLINE
This training is developed to teach Project Management Fundamentals to general audiences. It addresses topics which are generic and Cross-Sector Industries. During the training participants will learn all aspects of Project Management both from a theoretical as well as practical point of view. The course is divided into 12 specialized topics addressing different aspects of Project Management. The training will be conducted over three weeks consisting of 15 Lessons of 2 hours, plus an online examination. Practical examples of problem solving will be introduced with full theoretical background which will give the participants an excellent appreciation of strategic project management components based on PRINC2 and PMI standards.

Each training topic includes:

• Theoretical background,
• Practical tools/techniques and experience sharing,
• Practical tasks consideration and problems solving.

The teaching approach will include the following aspects:

• eLearning: Training Material will be copied to an eLearning system where all students will have full access to a number of materials. Recommended literature will be provided to the students in digital version.
• MS Project: During third topic “Planning/Scheduling” participants will be introduced to Microsoft Project 2003 with guest lecturer from AUA Extension Department. This will help students to practice scheduling with MS Project. The course also includes special two weeks long assignment (Task) especially targeted for practical usage of MS Project.
• Experience sharing: An important activity for students will be presentation of real cases and sharing own experiences of problem solving and Project Management decision making in their organizations.
• Documents: Additionally all students will get templates and forms for practical management of projects developed by Project Management Institutes. The Trainer will customize each form and template for some general business cases presented by students.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• People with little or no experience of project management
• People who are intending to start managing projects soon
• People who need to learn project management skills for further promotion
• People who need to know how to effectively manage current projects
• People who need to improve current projects and lower risks

DURATION:

Total of 30 hours – conducted over Three Weeks (15 Lessons of 2 hours and plus online examination)

MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE: 20

FEE: 100 000 AMD (including VAT)

REQUIREMENTS:

Participants should be fluent in English as all materials and lessons will be provided in English.

START DATES:

This course will be held from January 28, 2008 for three weeks.
Lessons will be either from 14:00 to 16:00 or from 18:30 to 20:30 – depending on popularity of the time slot

REGISTRATION DEADLINES:

For the first offering – January 25, 2008

REGISTRATION:

Please bring your completed application form, your passport and one photograph (3×4cm) to Extension Office. You will be asked to pay the tuition at AUA Cashier’s Office - 5th floor, room 59, open hours - 10:00-16:00, Monday-Friday (13:00-13:45 lunch).

CERTIFICATE

Students will receive a Certificate of Course Completion based on their attendance level and exam result.

AUA Extension Office - Room 19, American University of Armenia, 40 M. Baghramyan ave., 0019 Yerevan Business Hours: from 9:00 to 17:30, Monday - Friday; Telephone: (374 10) 51- 27- 06

eMail: extension@aua.am; http://www.aua.am/extens.htm

Albert Poghosyan

Well,
I was bearing this idea already one year. As always I am running for some new ideas all the time so now I am about Project Management which in my version is Panacea for all problems in business.
One of the main targets of this training project is to help development and dissemination of Project Management knowledge within quickly developing sector: IT. This field is very important for any kind of organization and lack of skills in this field affect companies very much. Actually based on my experience and experience of my friends, percentage of projects that failed in Armenia is very high. This fact affect to whole industries which is actually based on project management, such as Information Technologies.
Mainly lack of required skills is cause of this problem. Practical and theoretical knowledge on main areas of project management should be provided to middle and high level managers which hasn’t been done by any University or Institute in Armenia. Additionally there are special issues affecting successful project management in Armenia. First of all it is customer and supplier relationship management which in fact affect project life circle and successful completing of project. Secondly there isn’t strong controlling environment in organizations.
Armenia is targeting himself as developed IT industries production market but without this skill we mainly break all possible and impossible boundaries of projects so far done in Armenia. So even we are getting any outsourcing projects, the companies do not stick with Armenian counterparts. It is because of low level service providing and failed projects. This is very important issue for whole economics. It is affecting every part of export products production and services produced by local companies.

The course will be based on practical examples of problem solving with full theoretical background for better understanding of strategic project management component based on PRINC2 and PMI standards. Additionally it includes full review of Project management tools such as MS Project. Course includes special week long assignment especially targeted for practical usage of MS Project. The teaching strategies of this course are based on following points:

• eLearning: All courses will be copied to eLearning system where all students will have full access for any kind of materials, plus all recommended literature will be provided to students in digital version on web-site. All assignments will be detailed discussed on forums for each topic.
• PM tools: During the course the trainer will introduce students to MS Project software with detailed overview of functionalities of that tool. This will help students to practice scheduling with MS Project and finish assignment. Additionally will be offered to research other pm tools to be much advanced in practical scheduling of IT projects.
• Experience sharing: The most important responsibility of the students will be the presentation of real cases and sharing own experience of problem solving and PM decision making in their organizations.
• Documents: Additionally all students will get templates and forms for practical management of IT projects developed by Project Management Institutes. The Trainer will customize each form and template for some general business cases presented by students.
• Handouts in advance: Everyone will get handouts by registration just to be able to read it in advance.

Please get the announcement here:

http://egov.re4blog.org/publish/IT%20Project%20Management%20Training.pdf

Albert Poghosyan