Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Jeffrey K. Pinto, Ph.D.

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Project Management on Free Streaming Video

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jkp4@psu.edu
Penn State University
Erie, Pennsylvania

Dr. Jeffrey Pinto is professor of management at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, he holds the Andrew Morrow and Elizabeth Lee Black Chair in Management Technology within the Sam and Irene Black School of Business. His teaching and research focus are in the areas of project management and the management of technology and organizational innovation. He is the author or editor of 23 books and over 120 scientific papers, including the "Project Management Handbook", published in 1998 by Jossey-Bass. His most recent book, "Successful Information Systems Implementation: The Human Side, 2nd Edition", was published in 1999. His work has been translated into nine languages.

In October 2009, he received the 2009 Research Achievement Award from the Project Management Institute. The Research Achievement Award recognizes and honors an individual who has significantly advanced the concepts, knowledge, and practices of project management through professionally conducted and authored project management research. The award particularly acknowledges the careers of project-management scholars and long-term research productivity.

In 1997, Dr. Pinto received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute, the world's largest organization of project management professionals. He was a past editor of the "Project Management Journal" and is one of three organizers of the Frontier of Project Management Research Conference held in Paris in June 2000. Dr. Pinto is a lead academic program leader for the international master of project management program offered by Penn State and the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, through Penn State State's World Campus. The institutions are collaborating with Rolls-Royce, AMEC and Goodrich Corporation to deliver the master's degree in project management through a blended learning approach of face-to-face networking and lecture sessions and distance learning technologies to create a flexible learning environment for project managers who travel extensively as part of their jobs.

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College is home to 3700 students that benefit from the opportunities and prestige of a major research university set in the atmosphere of a student-centered college. The College hosts 27 Outreach initiatives, including the Center for Corporate and Continuing Education, which developed the project management DVD. The Center for Corporate and Continuing Education provides customized training on various topics for business and industry and offers a high level of project management education for professionals in the field.

Dr Pinto is the lead faculty member and head of Penn State's renowned on-line Masters Degree and Graduate Certificate programs in Project Management. For details about these programs visit:

http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/MasterinProjectManagement.shtml

Course Title Rating Hours Price

008-Foundations of Project Management - Streaming Video Course

(4.7) 78 Reviews

4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Even the smallest projects are multifaceted these days and the large projects are more complex than ever. Managing these projects requires a professional who is specially trained and equipped with the tools to meet the expectations of regulators, owners and the public. This course, lead by a world-renowned authority on project management, was created to give construction and design professionals the tools and understanding needed to be a successful Project Manager. Foundations of Project Management is the first in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit

Course Topics and timeline:

0:05:30 Introduction
0:28:15 Why Project Management
0:38:15 Project Scope Management
0:32:00 Risk Management
0:42:00 Basics of Planning and Scheduling
0:22:00 Project Tracking and Control
0:29:00 Project Close-out
0:10:00 Time allowance for test
3:27:00 Total Contact Time
3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH

The objective of this course is to equip project personnel with the skills to:

Control and assure the quality of the work product
Anticipate the perils that will threaten the project
Coordinate the work of the various disciplines involved in producing the project
Apply the resources that are needed at the various stages of the project
Control project costs and schedule in order to meet the owner's requirements

011-The Technical Side of Project Management - Streaming Video Course

(4.9) 116 Reviews

4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Participants in this course will gain a working knowledge of the concepts, tools and techniques of project management through educational demonstrations, examples and illustrations.

Ten questions for Project Managers:

Are your projects ever late?
Are your projects ever over budget?
Which task should you start next?
Do you have enough people to complete your project on time?
Do you have too many people to keep your project on budget?
Do you know what tasks you must complete next week or next month to stay on schedule?
Do you have a list of uncompleted tasks for your project?
Do you know who will complete each of those tasks?
Do you have a strategy in place to deal with the loss of key individuals or other resources?
Do you lose sleep, worrying about any of these things?

This course will help you learn or relearn the skills of Project Management and end those sleepless nights.

This training program is a distance-learning course, created to give design, construction and manufacturing professionals the tools and understanding needed to be a successful Project Manager. The course is offered on Free Streaming Video. You earn continuing education credit by viewing the video and passing a 30-question online test.

The Technical side of Project Management is the second in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit

Course Topics and timeline:

0:04:00 Introduction
0:14:00 Work Breakdown Structure
0:37:00 Network Diagramming
0:12:00 Activity Duration Estimation
0:58:00 Developing the Critical Path
0:20:00 Crashing Projects
0:55:00 Monitoring Project Performance
0:10:00 Time allowance for test
3:32:00 Total Contact Time
3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH

The objective of this course is to equip project personnel with the skills to:

Understand and write a work breakdown structure
Prepare and manage a network diagram for the project
Estimate the duration of all of the activities in the network diagram
Use the network diagram to establish the critical path for the project
Differentiate between the effective and ineffective methods for crashing projects
Monitor project costs and schedule

030-How Your Projects Will Go Wrong - Streaming Video Course

(4.7) 110 Reviews

4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Most projects fail to meet their cost and schedule objectives and only a small fraction achieve full success. This course offers practical advice and suggestions on how to recognize the warning signs that your project may be on the wrong path and what you can do to alleviate the problems. Just as the old saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" remains valid, the key to fixing project problems is through early recognition and effective solutions.

How Your Projects Will Go Wrong is the third in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) accepts this courses for category 4 credit

Course Topics and Timeline:

0:10:00 Introduction
0:10:00 Causes of Project Failure
0:18:00 Poor leadership
0:31:00 Setting ourselves up to fail
1:00:00 Poor knowledge of Project Status
0:21:00 Ineffective solutions
0:33:00 10 Ways to ruin your project
0:08:00 Unwillingness to learn
0:05:00 Conclusions
0:10:00 Time allowance for test
3:26:00 Total Contact Time
3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH

Learning Objectives:

The learning objectives of this continuing education course are to give attendees a better understanding of major reason why projects fail, including:

Poor leadership
Setting ourselves up to fail
Poor knowledge of project status
Ineffective "solutions"
The unwillingness to learn the correct lessons