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Rice University: Strategic Project Management

Enhance your ability to apply strategic principles to project management.

Enhance your ability to apply strategic principles to project management.

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8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Mar 26, 2025
Enroll by Apr 1, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Mar 26, 2025
Enroll by Apr 1, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

The need for strategic project management experience in business has grown, with organizations now requiring an increase in efficiency and agility to gain a competitive advantage. Traditionally, project management focuses on the application of tactics, but to overcome the complexities of a dynamic business environment, a defined strategy to make these tactics more effective is required.

The Strategic Project Management online short course from Rice University’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies goes beyond traditional project management and equips you with the strategic techniques, skills, and tools to successfully achieve organizational and project-related goals. Over the course of eight weeks, you’ll learn to apply strategic thinking by aligning project, program, or portfolio goals to an organization's strategic plans. You’ll also gain the ability to lead and manage project teams in an agile manner. Throughout the course you’ll familiarize yourselves with a tool kit of strategic project management resources that you can use after you’ve completed the course.

This course is geared toward project management professionals looking to validate and expand their strategic expertise. Senior executives and managers involved in strategic decisions and functional specialists in operational roles will benefit from completing this course, as will those who need to drive strategic project management through execution. The course is also suited for business unit heads who want to transition from an operational to a more strategic role.

Course curriculum

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Learn to bridge the gap between strategic objectives and project delivery as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation Module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: The 21st century project manager

Module 2: Strategic thinking for project managers

Module 3: Value management (part 1): Mining your project for value

Module 4: Value management (part 2): Maximizing value for organizational impact

Module 5: Strategic project leadership

Module 6: Organizational structures and challenges

Module 7: Project change and risk in an organizational context

Module 8: The way forward

About the certificate

Expand your knowledge beyond the fundamentals of project management and earn a certificate of professional achievement from Rice University’s Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

1 out of 4

The amount of projects that 59% of organizations expect will fail to deliver on their goals on time and within budget due to misalignment between project objectives and organizational strategy.

PWC (Jun, 2018).

72%

The proportion of project management leaders who feel certification is highly relevant for mid-career project managers.

PMI (Jun, 2018).

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