An Evaluation of Project Management Certifications and Training

This report provides an evaluation of project management certifications and training, exploring their benefits, costs, and target audience. It begins by defining project management and its key components, including methodologies, resource management, and timeframes. The report then delves into the significance of certifications in validating project management knowledge and the importance of proper training. It discusses cost management in project planning and implementation, highlighting the roles of software engineers, product managers, project managers, team leaders, and business analysts. The benefits of project management certifications, such as faster goal accomplishment, better leadership, and improved work quality, are also presented. Finally, it contrasts certifications with training programs, differentiating between theoretical coursework and practical application, while referencing key sources in the field.

A N E VA L U AT I O N O F
P R O J E C T M A N A G E M E N T
C E R T I F I C AT I O N S A N D
T R A I N I N G
N A M E O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y
N A M E O F T H E S T U D E N T

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
• The project management is basically a practice and a
combination of the activities that are aimed at the achievement
of a definite objective. This is including the methodologies
behind planning, managing resources, motivation including
rules, time and measurement.
• The project management is having a specific time frame that are
depending on the expected results and available funds.

EVALUATION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
• The certification in the project management can ensure the
knowledge of someone in the project life cycle.
• The assessment of performance of the project and project
planning implementation in accord with the set of goals, can
make the required adjustments to the project.
• As the project management is aiming to ensure the project
management, so proper training is needed.

COST MANAGEMENT:
• The management of cost is the procedure of allocation,
estimation as well as controlling the project costs.
• By the help of cost management, the businesses are having the
allowance to predict the cost of the coming expenses for
reducing the chances of over budget.
• The cost of a project can be calculated at the planning phase
and need to be approved at the starting of the project.

AUDIENCE:
• This is very much easy for understanding what the scrum rules are,
however this is very much difficult to implement in the actual project.
• The targeted audiences should be:
– Software Engineer
– Product Manager
– Project Manager
– Team Leader
– Business Analyst.

BENEFITS:
• Throughout the lives of people, they are tasked with the
grouped projects such as party planning, science fairs, home
improvement and many more. The benefits of project
management certification and training are:
• Accomplish goals faster
• Lead better
• Meet more deadlines
• Learn to budget
• Improve the quality of work

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING:
• The certification is basically a procedure where one can take classes
in the philosophy, management and organisation, manipucurrlatives
and curriculum. The one will be needed to write papers and they
have to make a manual that is the complication of lesions.
• On the other hand, the training can be deceptive. In the theory, this
is the course which one can take to become a certificated project
manager.
• If someone is trained that does not mean the person is certificated.

REFERENCES:
• Takey, S. M., & de Carvalho, M. M. (2015). Competency mapping in project
management: An action research study in an engineering company. International Journal
of Project Management, 33(4), 784-796.
• de Carvalho, M. M., Patah, L. A., & de Souza Bido, D. (2015). Project management and
its effects on project success: Cross-country and cross-industry
comparisons. International Journal of Project Management, 33(7), 1509-1522.
• Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. M. (2017). Human resource
management: Gaining a competitive advantage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
• Binder, J. (2016). Global project management: communication, collaboration and
management across borders. Routledge.