Turn ideas into impact with the leading certificate in Strategic Project Management.
This programme offers practical and immersive training to plan and deliver strategic, international, or large-scale innovation projects.
Through a hands-on, gamified learning journey, participants gain essential knowledge of globally standardized project management processes, tools, and techniques, empowering them to turn ideas, challenges, and opportunities into real, measurable results.
Designed for professionals who want to lead complex projects confidently, this certificate bridges the gap between strategy and execution in today’s fast-paced, global business environment.
11 modules with practical learning content, situational video cases, real challenges and gamified activities.
- Challenge 1: how to develop an integrated project management plan and how to manage a change proposal in the project scope
- Project integration management processes.
- How to manage a project team, Project Management processes and their alignment with the strategic objectives of the company.
- Challenge 2: how to manage complex project situations with the support of project stakeholders..
- Project Stakeholders Management: team management, processes involved and strategic alignment, identification, classification, prioritisation and design of stakeholder management strategies.
- How to manage stakeholder expectations.
- Challenge 3: How to define a project scope management plan (project objectives, scope statement, project breakdown structure and traceability matrix).
- Project scope management: team management, processes involved and strategic alignment, requirements gathering, scope definition, scope control and validation.
- Challenge 4: optimising a Project schedule by managing budget and resources constraints
- Project schedule management: project team management, processes involved and strategic alignment.
- How to build a project team and stay motivated throughout the project life cycle.
- Quiz: 20 Multiple-choice questions about Project Management Schedule Management Processes.
- Challenge 5: developing a risk management plan to manage project uncertainty.
- Project risk management: project team management, processes involved and strategic alignment, risk identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and definition of risk response strategies.
- Risks and opportunities in a project.
- Challenge 6: estimating project costs (top-down and bottom-up techniques) and calculating project performance indicators.
- Project cost management: project team management, processes involved and strategic alignment, cost estimation, project budget creation and cost baseline control using the earned value management system technique.
- Documentation.
- Interactive documents and Infographics.
- Challenge 7: project quality management plan, definition of the quality requirements of the project deliverables.
- Project quality management: project team management, processes involved and strategic alignment, planning and project quality management.
- Challenge 8: project communication and resource management plan
- Management of project resources and communications: management of the project team, processes involved and strategic alignment, planning, management and supervision of resources (RACI matrix, leadership and conflict management) and project communications.
- Challenge 9: Procurement Management: management of the project team, processes involved and strategic alignment, request for proposal, types of contracts, supervision of contract execution and change management protocol in the scope of the project.
- Challenge 10: integration of all project management plans throughout the project life cycle.
- Project closure processes: project team management, processes involved and strategic alignment, lessons learned and updating of company assets.
- Ethics in international project management.
Up to 3 months to complete the certificate.
Customization available for companies.
ESCP is an Authorized Training Partner by Project Management Institute (PMI).
