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PMI Program Management Professional (PgMP) Online Training

This intermediate Program Management Professional (PgMP) training prepares learners to manage multiple projects as a cohesive program, align them with organizational goals, deliver measurable benefits, and prepare for the PgMP certification exam. The PgMP focuses on managing multiple, interrelated projects as a strategic program. It elevates and accelerates traditional project management expertise, demonstrating that someone is prepared for advanced, complex roles with many moving parts. Earning the PgMP can boost your career, leading to promotions or senior leadership positions like Program Manager or Director of Programs.

Updated March 2025

16Skills
81Videos
12h 49mTotal
81 videos12h 49m

Who This Course Is For

This Program Management Professional (PgMP) training is considered professional-level PMI training, which means it was designed for project managers with three to five years of experience with project management.

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Projects, Programs, and Portfolios46m
  • Premium skill.The Role of Program Manager48m
  • Premium skill.Principles and Performance Domains51m
  • Premium skill.Strategic Program Alignment47m
  • Premium skill.Knowledge and Skills for Strategic Alignment45m
  • Premium skill.Benefits Management50m
  • Premium skill.Stakeholder Engagement55m
  • Premium skill.Tools for Benefits and Stakeholder Management49m
  • Premium skill.Governance Framework49m
  • Premium skill.Program Governance Practices47m
  • Premium skill.Life Cycle Management: Part 145m
  • Premium skill.Life Cycle Management: Part 245m
  • Premium skill.Program Integration Management45m
  • Premium skill.Change, Comms, Finance, Info & Procurement47m
  • Premium skill.Quality, Resource, Risk, Schedule & Scope50m
  • Premium skill.Collaboration49m

For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Organizations running multiple related initiatives need more than project status updates — they need program-level governance, benefits tracking, and strategic alignment. This PgMP training is designed for experienced Project Managers, Program Managers, Team Leads, and IT Practitioners moving into roles where multiple projects must be managed as one coordinated program.

At roughly 13 hours per learner, the course is a realistic assignment for teams preparing for PMI’s PgMP exam or standardizing program management practices across IT, operations, or transformation teams. It covers projects, programs, portfolios, the program manager role, strategic alignment, benefits management, stakeholder engagement, governance, life cycle management, integration, change, communications, finance, procurement, quality, resources, risk, schedule, scope, and collaboration.

For IT Directors and Training Managers, CBT Nuggets Playlists can sequence this course into a role-based development path, Practice Exams can support certification readiness, and Team Reporting can help track learner progress across the team.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to manage complex initiatives as coordinated programs instead of disconnected projects. The course emphasizes the program structures that help leaders connect execution to strategy, benefits, stakeholders, and governance.

  • Improve strategic alignment: Teams learn how projects, programs, and portfolios relate, helping leadership prioritize work that supports organizational goals.
  • Make benefits measurable: Program teams can define, track, and communicate expected benefits instead of only reporting task completion.
  • Strengthen stakeholder engagement: Learners practice the concepts behind stakeholder planning, engagement metrics, and communication across competing interests.
  • Reduce program delivery risk: Governance, life cycle management, integration, change, finance, procurement, quality, resources, schedule, scope, and risk topics help teams manage complex work with clearer controls.

After completion

Knowledge & ability your team will gain

Knowledge

  • Differences between projects, programs, and portfolios
  • Responsibilities and expectations of the program manager role
  • PMI-aligned program principles and performance domains
  • Strategic program alignment and benefits management concepts
  • Stakeholder engagement, governance frameworks, and program life cycle phases
  • Core program management areas, including change, communications, finance, procurement, quality, resources, risk, schedule, and scope

Ability

  • Organize related projects into a program structure tied to business goals
  • Support program decisions with business case, charter, and governance concepts
  • Plan for benefits realization and stakeholder engagement throughout the program life cycle
  • Apply governance practices to monitor and guide program execution
  • Integrate program components across scope, schedule, resources, risk, and quality
  • Prepare more effectively for the PMI PgMP certification exam

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