Is Applied Project Management Applicable To My Industry?
ACC Continuing Education’s BMGT1009 Applied Project Management foundations course is taught using the full spectrum of generic principles from the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) from PMI® (Project Management Institute). To explore the concepts more fully, we use a textbook with a variety of examples, cases, and explanations from several industries, including Information Technology (IT), Healthcare & biotech, business & finance, construction & renovation, oil & gas, education & training, engineering, aerospace, entertainment, government, non-profits, transportation, and others.
Most projects today are usually a mix of intellectual activities (e.g. computers and programming, websites, designs, inventions, research, etc.) and physical activities (e.g. facilities, prototype construction, equipment deployments, software installations, etc. Most people have little trouble understanding the examples and stories in our textbook and applying them to their own industry environments.
Remember that all PM courses anywhere will have to use examples and stories from some kind of domain to illustrate the principles.
Having educated 1,000+ students from several domains and industires in our flagship course since 2003, we've found that our BMGT 1009 Applied Project Management course is a good, broad foundation for managing projects most anywhere, large or small.
You can use Amazon’s “LOOK Inside” feature and read a few pages to see what the BMGT 1009 Applied PM course textbook is like. We’ve had many students understand it with little trouble – it’s aimed at the college freshman reading level. The follow-on BMGT1040 PMP/CAPM Exam Prep course is non-industry specific also as it is focused only on polishing for the CAPM® & PMP® Exams from PMI® – there is a lot of focus on tips & tricks and practice tests in that one. More detail for the BMGT1040 PMP®/CAPM® Exam Prep course can be viewed on its course description web page.