Microsoft Project Management: Build Job-Ready Skills (berufsbezogenes Zertifikat)

Whether you’re looking to start a new career or change your current one, Professional Certificates help you become job ready. Apply your new skills on hands-on projects that showcase your expertise to potential employers and earn a career credential to kickstart your new career.

Project managers are skilled and organized professionals who equip their teams with the tools to succeed and evolve through projects. The role of the project manager professional includes planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing projects. They play a critical role in ensuring that projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget while meeting the desired goals and objectives.

Prepare for a career in the high-demand field of project management. The project management skills you learn in this program prepare you for an entry-level role as a project manager. This program also prepares you for a variety of entry-level roles that require goal-driven problem-solving and strategic planning.

These roles include:

• Project Manager

• Program Manager

• Product Manager

• Change Manager

• Operations Manager

• IT Project Manager

• Construction Project Manager

• Engineering Project Manager

Yes. We highly recommend taking the courses of each certificate program in the order they are presented. The content in the courses builds on information from earlier courses. The final course contains a practice exam that assesses your knowledge of the content covered in the previous courses. As such, it makes the most sense to take the courses in the order they are presented.

It typically takes 4 months to complete the 9 courses. However, some learners may go through the content faster.

When you complete this Professional Certificate, you’ll have an understanding of the fundamental concepts of project management and how they apply to an enterprise environment including:

• Motivating people and teams through all phases of a successful project.

• Using predictive, agile and hybrid approaches to determine which way of working is best for each project.

• Highlighting the success of a project and its impact on overall strategic organizational goals.

You’ll also be prepared to take the industry-recognized PMI® Authorized PMP® Exam, a global standard in project management certification.

Courses 2-6 in the Microsoft Project Manager Professional Certificate originate from the Microsoft Program Management Professional Certificate. If you've already completed these courses as part of that program, your progress will be saved and will count towards your completion of Courses 2 -6 in the Microsoft Project Manager Professional Certificate. There's no need to retake them.

The specific courses carried over from the Microsoft Program Management Professional Certificate are:

Course 2: "Team Building & Leadership"

Course 3: "Project Manager Engagement with Stakeholders"

Course 5: “PMP Formulas”

Course 7: “Project Management Performance Domains”

Course 8: “Agile and Hybrid Approaches in a Project Environment”

This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.