What you will learn
- Learn the day to day role of programs as the vehicle for delivering business objectives and change, understand the connections between programs and projects in organizations’ ecosystems, and how to lead scaling the changes that drive businesses forward.
- Be the Future Leader and Capabilities Integrator for your team, practice the mechanics of planning for, owning, and sustaining program benefits, and shift how you think long term and connect business opportunities to the strategic landscape.
- Strengthen the Strategy Execution mechanisms, with a holistic solution design that aligns programs components, and project managers with the strategy.
- Build collaboration and transparency to remove execution obstacles that affect the speed and quality of decisions.
- Develop the foresight to create program plans with focus on value, the mindset, skills, and abilities that result in the aspired-to program’s outcomes and benefits.
Courses in this program
UMD and USMx's Program Management: Enabling Value Driven Change Professional Certificate
- Program Management Fundamentals – Governing with Excellence to Drive Strategic Change
- The Program Manager – Applying Power Skills and Digital Enablers to Create Continual Change
- The Program Management Office (PMO) - The Strategy Execution Arm
- Creating an Organizational Change Management Framework - Transforming Strategy Execution to Realize Program Value
- Job Outlook
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Program endorsements
The Program and Product Managers jobs have never been more demanding. The speed of change in markets and the comprehensive nature of transformation programs require a ‘Spidey Sense’ to balance the discipline and flexibility needed to adapt in real time. Leaders need to be agile, navigate political waters, manage incredible complexity and align diverse stakeholders. I have been in industry for over 30 years and I’ve seen what great looks like, and unfortunately, the consequences when unqualified people run critical programs. University of Maryland’s Professional Certificate in Program Management delivers against the key competencies and skills needed to be great. I highly recommend these courses if you are looking to become the next great Program Manager. Invest in yourself and join the movement to deliver change!