Overview

During this Project Management Fundamentals online course we will explore how everyday skills can be brought to bear on even quite complex projects and start looking at how to turn you into a truly brilliant Project Manager.

By examining everyday projects, we can start to understand the theory and practice behind successful project management all of which will make you not just a Project Manager but a more highly skilled individual in general.

This online Project Management course gets back to basics and bridges the gap between starting out, when the new Project Manager thinks that they know nothing and feels utterly overwhelmed, to the stage at which they feel ready to start taking on more complex challenges and maybe even understand some of those intimidating volumes on the subject.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this Project Management online training course you wil have achieved the following learning objectives; enabling you to explain and put into practice the foundations of effective project management;

• Analyse stakeholders
• Produce a Project Mandate and a Project Brief
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure
• Describe and use different ways to manage risk
• Implement practical interventions to support change management during a project
• Measure the success of a project at closure against the original outcomes

Target Audience

This Project Management online course has been built by experienced Project Managers for those who are new to projects, or have had limited training in Project Management.

Course Aim

By examining everyday projects, you will understand the key theory and practice behind successful project management.

Course Content

This Project Management online course comprises of 12 modules:

1. Could YOU be a project manager?
2. How to lead a team through a project
3. All about stakeholders
4. The Life Cycle and structure of a project
5. Preparing the Business Case with the end in mind
6. Planning the plan
7. Creating the project plan
8. All about resources
9. Managing Quality, Risks and Issues
10. A few crumbs about change management
11. Easy, Peasy, Lemon Squeezy...
12. Michelin Stars and Bitter Lessons