# Project Management Level II

Canonical URL: <https://www.careercenters.com/courses/advanced-project-management-training>

## Overview

In this course you’ll build off the foundation of our Project Management Level 1 class, to complete your understanding of the five stages of project management.

### The Execution, Monitoring, & Closing Phases

Once the project is underway, it’s important for the project manager to ensure things continue to run smoothly, activities get completed on time and within budget. After the project is done, its time to wrap things up and track the lessons learned for the benefit of future projects.

### Budgets, Resources, & Risk

Learn to work with budgets and costs, managing limited resources, and estimating/tracking activity costs to ensure the project remains within its budget.

### Intro to Agile

Lastly, you’ll get an introduction to Agile Project Management. How is it different from Waterfall? You’ll get an overview of popular Agile Frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP). Being exposed to different project methodologies will help you see there are different approaches depending on your project’s needs, so you can choose the best management style for different types of projects.

## What you'll learn

- Continue learning about the five phases of project management, focusing on the last three: Execution, Monitoring, and Closing  
- Understand project costs and budgeting
- Learn how to manage resources
- Manage risk, changes, and uncertainty
- Get an overview of Agile Project Management frameworks: Scrum, Kansan, and Extreme Programming (XP)

## Prerequisites

Knowledge/skills equivalent to our [Project Management Level I](/courses/intro-project-management-course) course is required.

## Curriculum

### The Project Team

#### Team Development

- Assembling a Team
- Project Kickoff Meeting
- Characteristics of Effective Teams
- Barriers to Teams

#### Stages of Team Development

- Stage 1: Forming
- Stage 2: Storming
- Stage 3: Norming
- Stage 4: Performing

### Budgets & Costs

#### Types of Costs

- Resource cost rates
- Reserve analysis
- Contingency budget
- Cost of quality

#### Determining Activity Costs

- Estimate Activity Costs

#### Determining Project Budget

- Calculations
- Total Budgeted Cost (TBC)
- Time-Phased Budget
- Cumulative Budgeted Cost (CBC)

### The Execution Phase

#### Determining Actual Costs

- Determine Actual Cost
- Compare Actual Cost to Budgeted Cost
- Actual Accumulated Cost by Period
- Cumulative Budgeted & Actual Cost Curve

#### Determining the Value of Work Performed

- Determine Value of Work Performed
- Earned Value (EV)
- Cumulative Earned Value

#### Cost Performance & Project Status

- Analyze Cost Performance
- Measure Project Status

#### Cost Analysis

- Analyze Cost Performance
- Cost Performance Index (CPI)
- Cost Variance (CV)
- Estimating the Cost at Completion
- Forecasted Cost at Completion (FCAC)

#### Controlling Costs & Corrective Action

- Cost Control Steps
- When to Take Corrective Action

### Limited Resources: Leveling & Smoothing

#### Resource Leveling

#### Resource Limited Scheduling

### Risk Management

#### Risks & Issues

- Identify Risks
- Risk Assessment
- Probability & Impact Matrix
- Risk Appetite

#### Common Types of Risks

- External Risks
- Single Point of Failure

#### Risk Mitigation

- Common Ways of Dealing With Risk

### Project Communication

#### Meetings

- Project Kickoff Meeting
- Different Types of Meetings

#### Reports

- Different Types of Reports

#### Plans

- Project Plans
- Document Control Plan
- Project Communication Plan

### The Closing Phase

#### Final Payments

#### Staff Recognition & Evaluation

#### Post Project Evaluation

#### Lessons Learned

#### Archive Project Documents

#### Customer Feedback

#### Early Project Termination

### Agile Project Management

#### Overview of Agile

#### The Agile Manifesto

#### Agile vs. Waterfall

### Agile Frameworks

#### Scrum

- Scrum Concepts
- Scrum Roles
- Why is Scrum So Popular?
- When Scrum Works Best

#### Kanban

- Kanban boards
- Work-in-Process (WIP) Limit

#### Extreme Programming (XP)

- Extreme Programming (XP) Activities
- Designing
- Coding
- Testing
- Listening

## Schedule
- Jul 13, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Aug 21, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Sep 24, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Oct 29, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Dec 4, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $325