Program overview
The Project Management MicroMasters® program from RIT is a graduate level series of courses designed to provide you with the in-depth knowledge and skills needed to be a successful project manager in any industry. This online sequence is a semester’s worth of work from RIT’s Master’s degree and consists of three courses and a final capstone exam.
By earning the MicroMasters® program certificate you will develop the leadership skills needed to effectively manage a team that will meet the expectations of your customers and business goals. Build on your MicroMasters® program certificate by applying to RIT’s School of Individualized Study for a customized master’s degree.
What you will learn
- The tools and techniques to manage the comprehensive project management life cycle for a project – from initiation through closing.
- To balance the critical tradeoffs of time, cost and scope to meet customer expectations.
- The ability to apply best practices across a variety of industries and businesses.
- Lead a project to success, and how to capitalize on the leadership and behavioral facets to do so.
- To navigate the social and cultural aspects, legal and regulatory practices, technology and infrastructure that influence projects’ success in the global market.
Program Class List
1Project Management Life Cycle
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2Best Practices for Project Management Success
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3International Project Management
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4Project Management MicroMasters® Capstone Exam
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Celine Gullace

Leonie Fernandes

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Course Overview
Enterprise Agile Transformation LiveLessons presents a model and a defined plan to transform your organization. Agile and Change consultant Robert Annis presents the Model for Activating Change in your Organization (MACO). Robert walks you through the three phases of MACO—Assessment, Preparation, and Delivery—which are intentionally simple and intended to be continuously repeated. These phases, along with successful Leadership change (also taught in the course) are the drivers for environmental change and enablement.
What You Will Learn
- Plan, lead, and deliver organizational change
- Learn the different players in an organizational change, and how to manage the relationship with them for success
- Report on transformational success and failure, and understand the metrics to use
- Realize the different staffing models in these transformations and the options they each provide
- Create loyalty to the change so that the organizational change has a much greater chance of success
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Agile practices
- The student also should have knowledge of their organizational structure, a willingness and openness to learn, and an understanding of their impediments to success. In short, they should have the awareness of their organization’s problems, the intended future state, and a desire to change their situation aligned with the knowledge of the investment that it will take.
About this course
New technologies and “big data” have transformed every facet of business, from accounting to marketing. Technologies like social media, ecommerce platforms, mobile devices, software services, the cloud, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things have created new business processes and products, while displacing and disrupting many others. In order to stay competitive, business leaders need to understand these emerging technologies, assess their inherent opportunities and challenges, and strategically maneuver the organization to maximize the value–and minimize the risk–of digital transformation.
This course will help you assess the most critical digital technologies that affect your business sector and how you can leverage them to realize efficiencies. We’ll discuss when and how to appropriately commoditize the data these technologies produce and ultimately, how the strategic deployment of technology can transform an organization.
What you’ll learn
- How digital technologies are transforming work, organizations, markets, and the economy.
- The interplay between organizational strategy and technology.
- Considerations in making strategic investments and decisions involving digital technology.
- Key issues in implementing different kinds of systems, including enterprise resource platforms, customer relationship management tools, and knowledge management and business intelligence applications.
- How to address IT governance and manage organizational change.

MicroMasters® in MBA Core Curriculum
Who can take this course?
Unfortunately, learners from one or more of the following countries or regions will not be able to register for this course: Iran, Cuba and the Crimea region of Ukraine. While edX has sought licenses from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to offer our courses to learners in these countries and regions, the licenses we have received are not broad enough to allow us to offer this course in all locations. EdX truly regrets that U.S. sanctions prevent us from offering all of our courses to everyone, no matter where they live.
Meet Your Instructors

Henry Lucas

Ritu Agarwal

Anandasivam Gopal

Joseph P. Bailey
About this course
Strong product management drives successful business model implementation. Learn about the key decisions, underlying tradeoffs, and implementation decisions needed for each phase of the product life and master business and organizational logic to ensure product success in the marketplace.
In this course, part of the Digital Product Management MicroMasters program, you will be introduced to key frameworks for decision-making based on both economic and organizational considerations. These frameworks inform a rising product manager on how to:
- use customer co-creation and understanding of their needs to become a “champion” for user-centric development in digital technology.
- set up and manage specific work flows (e.g. either lean, agile or stage gate development tasks) that result in timely launch and upgrades of products.
- use a data-and metrics-driven approach to make product life cycle decisions including pricing, versioning, maintenance, helpdesks and end of life.
- shape the direction of the product based on experimentation and system design thinking by learning from product roadmaps, competitive considerations, and allied evolution of demand in digital markets.
Caveat: This is not a course on software development, architecture or product marketing. The role of a product manager is to work with these functions effectively, such that the interests of a product (e.g., its profitability) and its customers are best served. Thus, the perspectives and skills covered in this course are integrative and allied with decision-making in their orientation.
What you’ll learn
- Product line planning and road mapping alternatives
- Idea generation, customer need assessment, co-creation, definition and validation of minimal viable product (MVP) and allied set up of requirement documents
- Alternative approaches for lean, agile and waterfall development, along with the tools for assessing task, project and business risks (and risk mitigation strategies) at scrums or at stage gates.
- How to launch a product and create a go-to-market strategy to champion your product.
- Performance Management: how to take ownership of product related profit (or loss) over various life cycle stages; how to track and optimize system performance metrics while organizing social media and third party data towards performance optimization
Prerequisites
- Secondary school (high school) algebra; basic mathematics concepts
- Backgroundin three areas:
- Project and process (operations) management concepts
- Marketing concepts
- Software engineering concepts
Learners may develop background in these three areas either through on the job exposure or by auditing 3rd or 4th year university level or online courses before taking DI503.
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Nitin R. Joglekar

Varun Nagaraj
Program overview
Accelerate your career by learning how to develop and deploy winning business strategies for your organization with a Professional Certificate in Strategic Management from Wharton. Enhance your leadership capabilities by identifying and defining your business’s competitive advantage, refining your strategy to optimize customer interactions, and driving profits.
Created by world-famous professors at the Wharton School, this certificate program helps you obtain the management skills you need to turn the challenges posed by today’s marketplace into opportunities for your business. Today’s leaders know that providing high-quality offerings at competitive prices is no longer enough to survive; this program was created to give you the knowledge and hands-on application you need to improve customer experience, boost operational efficiencies, and lower costs. By the end of this online program, you’ll have created your own connected strategy to deploy in your own organization to achieve real-world results.
What you will learn
- How to identify and define the competitive advantages of your business
- How to refine your strategy to maximize your competitive advantage and drive profits
- How to leverage the four connected strategies to create continuous relationships with customers
- How to move beyond traditional modes of customer interaction to create a fundamentally new business model
- How to create a portfolio of connected strategies to respond to different customer segments
- How to achieve sustainable competitive advantage in today’s business environment
Program Class List
1Business Strategy from Wharton: Competitive Advantage
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2Introduction to Connected Strategy
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3Strategic Management Capstone
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Nicolaj Siggelkow

Christian Terwiesch
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Business knowledge is in high demand in every area of work. From high-tech start-ups to non-profits, organizations are looking to leverage best practices from the business world to achieve their objectives. That’s why the MBA is widely recognized as a career accelerator, regardless of the industry you’re in.
With the MicroMasters program in MBA Core Curriculum, you will develop business insights and learn to lead others to achieve strategic goals. You’ll learn the different functional areas of a firm, how each area defines success, and how the functions work together to create success in the marketplace. You will be able to build and lead successful teams, influence others, and deliver high-quality outcomes on time and within budget.
The MicroMasters program in MBA Core Curriculum has also been designed to grow your professional and social networks. We will help you find people like yourself, both in your region and around the world, who are looking to advance their careers. In addition to facilitated discussions in your classes, you will be encouraged to interact with colleagues in real time by forming small study groups, holding virtual coffee hours, and discussing current articles and trends in business.
Are you ready? Turbocharge your career with the MicroMasters program in MBA Core Curriculum from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
What you will learn
- Devise the right marketing strategy for your idea or firm
- Use the vast information available in the world today to gain insight, create a competitive edge, and avoid being tomorrow’s data breach headline
- Evaluate corporate investment opportunities to drive shareholder value
- Use the language of business to communicate financial information to investors, shareholders, creditors, and regulators
- Interact with those in the “C” suite, speaking their language and making your case for your ideas
- Lead a team of people and use your influence to achieve strategic goals
- Create the right strategy for your firm to gain a competitive advantage over others in your market space, domestically and globally
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1Marketing Management
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2Leadership and Influence
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3Financial Accounting
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4Data Analysis for Decision Making
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5Global Business Strategy
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6Digital Transformation in Business
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7Corporate Finance
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Ritu Agarwal

Kathryn Bartol

Progyan Basu

Margrét Bjarnadóttir

Gilad Chen

Nicole Coomber

Michael Faulkender

Trevor Foulk

Judy Frels

David Godes

Anandasivam Gopal

Anil Gupta

Rebecca Hann

P.K. Kannan

Michael Kimbrough

Henry Lucas

Wendy Moe

Neta Moye

Myeong-Gu Seo

Nick Seybert

Subra Tangirala
