Watermark Learning Announces Business Certificate Program - Offers Business Analysis, Project Management Certificates Through College-Level Courses
Watermark Learning is offering a Project Management Certificate for Project Management Professionals, who feel they are managing too many projects with too little time, too few resources and lack of executive support. Business Analysis Certificates are also being offered to Business Requirements Analysis Professionals.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) February 17, 2005 -- http://www.WatermarkLearning.com – Watermark Learning, a
leading project management and requirements training company, today announced
the launch of its new Business Certification Program which, upon completion of a
series of college courses, will award business professionals with Business
Analysis and Project Management training certificates.
“The Watermark
Learning Business Analysis certificate not only addresses analysis and modeling
techniques,” said Richard Larson, PMP and Principal, Watermark Learning. “It
also demonstrates how to effectively clarify roles and responsibilities, respond
to varied agendas and influence outcomes with confidence.”
The Watermark
Learning Business Analysis training certificate can be obtained in as little as
twelve days in a series of integrated courses.
Required courses
include:
- Consulting Skills for Dynamic Business Analysis
- Rapid
Requirements Analysis Techniques
- Business Process Analysis
- Use Case
Modeling, and
- Project Management Essentials
Business Analysis
students are required to participate in one of the following elective
courses:
- Business Analysis Using UML
- Data Modeling
- Facilitation
Skills Workshop, or
- Software Testing for Business Analysts
“Many
Project Management professionals feel they are managing too many projects with
too little time, too few resources and lack of executive support,” said
Elizabeth Larson, PMP and Principal, Watermark Learning. “As a result, projects
can spin out of control and grind to a halt.”
The Watermark Learning
Project Management training certificate is designed to help business
professionals achieve business goals by learning how to more effectively solve
business problems, accurately communicate project needs in a timely manner as
well as plan and estimate appropriately.
The Watermark Learning Project
Management training certificate can be obtained in as little as nine days. To
obtain the certificate, students must participate in these required
courses:
- Project Management Fundamentals
- Gathering Business
Requirements: Whose Project is it Anyway?
- Estimating sand Scheduling
Projects
Project Management students must choose one of the following
elective courses:
- Facilitation Skills Workshop
- Iterative Project
Management: Plan your Risks or Risk your Plan
- Risk Management
- PMP
Certification Preparation
- Microsoft Project for Project
Managers
Students will receive continuing education credits (CEUs) for
each class in which they participate. Classes can be taken as public courses in
Minnesota or Arizona or are available as private, customized offerings through
onsite corporate training.
Project Management Business
Certificate
Learn more information about the Watermark Project Management
Certificate at www.watermarklearning.com/PMCertProgram.html or call
800.646.9362.
Business Analysis Certificate
Learn more information
about the Watermark Business Analysis Certificate at www.watermarklearning.com/BACertProgram.html or call
800.646.9362.
About Watermark Learning
Watermark Learning is a leading
project management and requirements analysis training and skill development
company. It offers training and mentoring on Project Management, Business
Requirements Analysis, Leadership, and Software Development including UML
training. Clients include professionals from Wells Fargo Bank, 3M, GMAC/RFC,
Securian Financial Group (formerly Minnesota Life), ING/Reliastar, MetLife,
State of Minnesota, and other Fortune 500 and smaller organizations.
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