Project Management – An Introduction

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Project Management has been recognised, endorsed and its many benefits publicly lauded from the world’s biggest corporations to small and medium sized consultancies and businesses. There are now a wealth of processes, formulas and models that are successfully used in different situations to successfully deliver large and small scale projects. Our course will give you an overview of the entire project management process and will help accelerate your professional career, give you the confidence to work with any PM professional and have the rigour and discipline to see projects to fruition.

In all our business courses, you get access to around six hours of e-learning that you can watch, listen and read. There are usually 100 questions and at the end of the course you will receive a certificate of completion that you can use against any personal or professional development requirements. As well as the course, you also receive a FREE e-book that you can read on your Kindle or other e-reader. You also get a FREE audiobook of the course so you can listen to the whole course uninterrupted on your device.

 

Description

Module One: Introduction

  • Welcome
  • Course Objectives
  • How it works

Module Two: Key Concepts (I)

  • What is a Project?
  • What is Project Management?
  • What is a Project Manager?
  • Review Questions

Module Three: Key Concepts (II)

  • About the Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • About the Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK)
  • The Five Process Groups
  • The Nine Knowledge Areas
  • The Triple Constraint
  • Review Questions

Module Four: Initiation (I)

  • Identifying Your Stakeholders
  • Assessing Needs and Wants
  • Setting a SMART Project Goal
  • Creating Requirements and Deliverables
  • Review Questions

Module Five: Initiation (II)

  • Creating a Statement of Work
  • Completing the Project Planning Worksheet
  • Completing the Project Charter
  • Review Questions

Module Six: Planning (I)

  • Managing Expectations
  • Creating a Task List
  • Estimating Time
  • Estimating Resources
  • Estimating Costs
  • Review Questions

Module Seven: Planning (II)

  • Building the Work Breakdown Structure
  • Creating the Schedule
  • Creating a Risk Management Plan
  • Creating a Communication Plan
  • Review Questions

Module Eight: Planning Tools

  • The Gantt Chart
  • The Network Diagram
  • Using a RACI Chart
  • Going the Extra Mile: Microsoft Project
  • Review Questions

Module Nine: Executing the Project

  • Establishing Baselines
  • Monitoring Project Progress
  • Triple Constraint Reduction Methods
  • Review Questions

Module Ten: Maintaining and Controlling the Project

  • Making the Most of Status Updates
  • Managing Change
  • Monitoring Risks
  • Review Questions

Module Eleven: Closing Out

  • Preparing for Closeout
  • Celebrating Successes
  • Learning from Project Challenges
  • Scope Verification
  • A Final To-Do List
  • Review Questions

Module Twelve: Closing Thoughts

  • Words from the wise
  • Lessons learned
  • Your scores
  • Evaluation form
  • Further reading

Topics Covered

Throughout the course you will develop key skills as you cover the following topics

  • Project Management key concepts and processes
  • Key documentation and reporting
  • Project planning and execution
  • Keeping control and ensuring delivery

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course on Project Management – an introduction – you will be able to:

  • Understand the different principles behind the world’s most successful project management concepts
  • Be able to initiate and join, with confidence, any professional project in any business
  •  Monitor any project under your sponsorship

Who's it for?

Prior knowledge

This is suited to anyone who has to have strong budget control and project management skills in order to get large scale projects delivered, whether you’re a PM professional or not.

As you develop your career, there will be a constant requirement to not only refresh and update existing technical learning but also to develop new skills and ways of thinking and behaving.

Technical Skills

Whether you’re in production, distribution, sales, finance, human resources or management your technical skills will always need to keep up with the latest developments in technology and change. The learning for this will generally come from your peers, industry trends and specialised training.

New skills

However, as you move up in seniority through an organisation or become and entrepreneur, you will be faced with learning a much wider array of skills. You will need to learn how to be a generalist but with the ability to look at the whole of a business and how it all interlocks.

People Skills

Most importantly, you will need to master your own behaviours and character and emotional intelligence in order to influence, inspire and bring people along with your vision.

Your career, personal and professional development should never stop, whether you are learning because of a company or professional body requirement or whether you are just wanting to grow.

ALWAYS BE LEARNING!

We have many more courses for your business or organisation. Get in touch about how to get our courses available to your organisation or fellow learners at [email protected]

For Businesses

Are you looking for a comprehensive learning solution for you and your teams? We have a portfolio of over 150 business short courses that are available online and on-demand. These ready to go courses cover all key areas of a business from finance & operations, sales & marketing, human resources to administration and management. As well as hard skills that range from elementary to advanced, there is an array of people and soft skill development.

Our e-learning is comprehensive, up to date and produced by a high quality learning and editorial team. It combines the latest in business thinking with the latest in learning technology. Learning can be delivered wholly online through self-study, with virtual tutor support or in a group & classroom environment by our qualified trainers.

  • All online learning is tracked and courses can be used as part of a personal development plan for staff
  • Learners can study out of hours or in breaks with bite-size learning
  • Get back end management reports on learner progress
  • Cost efficiently solve any compliance, insurance, regulatory, union or staff association requirements
  • Save on staff training and CPD costs
  • Choose and pay for only the courses you need or look at our library models for even greater value
  • No lock-in contracts – pay monthly or get a handsome discount for annual and multi-year deals
  • No big installations necessary – a simple web browser is all you need to get started
  • New courses being added all the time

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