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What is a bootcamp?

Our facilitated bootcamps focus on rapid skill acquisition by progressing you through a standard course on an accelerated schedule with peers who are committed to progressing on pace. Our bootcamps include:

Live kick-off event
Instructor facilitated Q&A for expert feedback and coaching
Learner Success Support: welcome call, advising sessions, personalized pace reminders
24/7 help desk

About This Course:

This bootcamp has a focus on learning the most commonly used project management methodologies in the IT field, and why they are effective. This bootcamp introduces you to project management standards and frameworks that increase efficiency and deliver tangible business benefits to IT projects.

Topics include:

Relationships among projects, programs and portfolios
Organizational culture and project management roles
Project management methods and lifecycles and their applications

This course can be used towards completion of a Professional Certificate in IT Project Management.

What You Will Learn:

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Explain why organizations use project management to deliver business value
Describe the relationships among projects, programs and portfolios
Define the differences between predictive, iterative and Agile-based lifecycles
Analyze different project management roles – project manager, sponsor, stakeholder, ScrumMaster, product owner and developer
Understand how organizational culture can influence the role of the project manager

Professional Certificate in IT Project Management

Learn & apply the latest PM techniques and strategies.

Strategic Applications of IT Project & Program Management

Portfolio Management, Governance, & the PMO

Leadership and Management for PM Practitioners in IT

3 Courses 3 months 2 – 5 hours per week

Complete Program $537.30

Program Details

Meet Your Instructor:

Debra Hildebrand

Instructor of Project Management at University of Washington

Debra Hildebrand has over 15 years’ experience in project management consulting and training for private firms and public agencies (federal, state and local level). Her specialties include strategic planning and implementation, organizational redesign and restructure, project management, and quality assurance oversight. Certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute, Debra is an instructor at the University of Washington, Stanford University, and City University of Seattle. She has an MBA from the Columbia Business School and is the principal of Hildebrand Solutions, a project management training and consultation firm.

About this course

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in any given organization serves a leadership position, protecting the data and digital systems that a company and it’s employees as well as its customers depend upon.

This course delves into the role that the CISO plays in cybersecurity operations.

Throughout the lessons, learners will explore answers to the following questions: How does cybersecurity work across industries? What is the professionals’ point of view? How do we keep information secure?

Coursework will fully explore the CISO’s view from the top, as well as the position’s toolkit, which includes policy, procedures and practices, technologies, awareness training, and audit. It will also dive into the approaches taken in private industry, government, academia, and the military.

What you will learn

Identify the four domains of cybersecurity and the differences between their rules, regulations, and desired outcomes;
Explain the role of the CISO across all domains, and the differences between CISO roles among the domains;
Identify cybersecurity specific tools for their appropriate domains and situations.

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.

Professional Certificate in Essentials of Cybersecurity

This professional certificate program will introduce you to the field of cybersecurity, as you learn about its landscape, numerous sectors and various roles, competencies and career pathways.

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: The CISO's View

Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit

Finding Your Cybersecurity Career Path

4 Courses 2-4 months 2–5 hours per week

Complete Program $716.40

Program Details

Meet your instructor

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky

Director, Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at University of Washington

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky is the director of the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity. She also teaches cybersecurity in several University of Washington programs. Endicott-Popovsky is a member of several national committees shaping cybersecurity education. She earned her doctoral degree from the Center for Secure and Dependable Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho.

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What you will learn

Describe what networking is and how it can help you reach your professional goals.
Identify your goals for networking.
Introduce yourself in English, keep a conversation going, and leave the conversation.
Write professional emails to make new contacts and follow up with people in your network.
Identify your network and your unique characteristics and skills.
Use LinkedIn and business cards to make and maintain connections with your network.
Use informational interviews to expand your network.

Courses in this program

This is the capstone networking course. Put all the skills that you have learned into practice. You’ll introduce yourself, write effective email, highlight your best qualities, and conduct an informational interview with a person of your choice.

Learn the basics of networking while you grow your social network and professional connections. Practice speaking to improve your English language skills for increased success in job hunting.

Improve your writing skills. Write effective emails including great subject lines, greetings, and closings. You’ll be more confident as you communicate for business, send messages, expand your network, and search for jobs in English.

Improve your ability to meet new people. Learn to give an “elevator pitch” (speech) to introduce yourself to new people and to highlight your key qualities. Make connections with people and use your skills to attend a networking event.

Meet your instructors

Daphne Mackey

Daphne Mackey is an ESL teacher and the author of sixteen ESL textbooks. Daphne received her M.Ed. and MBA at Boston University, where she taught in the Center for English Language Programs (CELOP) for nine years. For the past thirty years, she has been working in the English Language Programs at the University of Washington. She has also taught in the MBA program at Pacific Lutheran University and done training in multicultural/global team management at northwest companies. In her free time, Daphne enjoys sailing and hiking with her family.

Joel Ozretich

Joel Ozretich has over 15 years of experience teaching English in both in the US and abroad in South Korea and Japan. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the University of Washington where he specializes in teaching Business English courses such as Marketing for International Professionals, Writing for Business, and Business Communications. Prior to teaching, he worked as a reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. He holds a Master’s in Teaching ESOL and Bachelor’s undergraduate degrees in Broadcast Journalism and International Studies from the University of Washington.

Richard Moore

Richard Moore is a lecturer in the International and English Language Programs at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has been a teacher for over 20 years. He is originally from England just outside of London, and has taught English in the U.K., Australia, and Korea. Richard decided to become a teacher of English because he loves languages, traveling and working with different groups of people from around the world.

Program endorsements

In today’s global arena, the ability to collaborate effectively with others is an essential competency for professionals. Mastering the listening and communication skills involved requires an investment in learning and practice. The benefits include building a rich personal network to support your personal and professional objectives, leveraging the resources and talent of teams, and establishing understanding and trust that translates into productive working relationships. Our mission at Fluency Group is empowering people and organizations to communicate, collaborate and perform on the global stage to achieve their goals, and we’re happy to support this valuable program by the University of Washington which supports this endeavor.

Heidi Schumann , CEO, Fluency Group

In today’s global arena, the ability to collaborate effectively with others is an essential competency for professionals. Mastering the listening and communication skills involved requires an investment in learning and practice. The benefits include building a rich personal network to support your personal and professional objectives, leveraging the resources and talent of teams, and establishing understanding and trust that translates into productive working relationships. Our mission at Fluency Group is empowering people and organizations to communicate, collaborate and perform on the global stage to achieve their goals, and we’re happy to support this valuable program by the University of Washington which supports this endeavor.

Heidi Schumann , CEO, Fluency Group

Program overview

Are you an IT professional new to project management or a manager who wants to develop more robust project management skills? Perhaps you are looking to forge a career as a full-time project manager (PM). This program will introduce you to the fundamentals of project management, specifically as they apply to the field of information technology (IT).

This program will help you select project management techniques and strategies that best fit your IT project or organization. You’ll also explore how project management offices are organized and how they develop a project portfolio. Throughout the program, you’ll come to understand some of the challenges of the field, including management of diverse teams and projects that are potentially based anywhere in the world. By the end, you’ll determine your own competencies as an IT project manager and will have developed core skills required for this role.

What will you learn

Why IT organizations use project management to deliver business value and how organizational culture can influence the role of the PM and individual projects;
How to describe and distinguish among the major project management methodologies and project lifecycles as applied to IT and to identify strategies for managing distributed teams;
The purpose of a Project Management Office (PMO), high-level strategies to set up, maintain, and close a PMO, and how it can work within your organization;
Techniques to intake, prioritize, and select projects and programs so that they align with an organization’s overall business strategy; and
Which personal and performance competencies are necessary for project management in IT, and strategies for developing those skills.

Program Class List

In this course you will learn project management standards and frameworks that increase efficiency and deliver tangible business benefits.

Learn how a Project Management Office (PMO) works, discover techniques to monitor and control projects and find out how to keep your project portfolio healthy.

Learn how to develop effective project management and leadership skills that are essential for successfully guiding diverse or distributed teams and projects.