Project Management

Learn the skills necessary to better manage projects

Discover new ways to assess, strategise, then execute plans, bring out the best in your team, and keep on task and within budget. You’ll also learn concrete skills and handy frameworks like SWOT analyses, Gantt charts, and bench marking practices that can be applied across a variety of fields.

What is covered in this course?

LESSON 1 NATURE AND SCOPE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1. The role of a project manager
2. Definitions
3. Characteristics of a project
4. Stages of a project
5. Where is project management applied?
6. Types of project management
7. Types of project management offices
8. Project types
9. State of the art
10. Static management
11. Lesson 1 additional reading
12. Review what you have been learning

LESSON 2 RISK AND UNCERTAINTY

1. What is risk?
2. Some seek risk
3. The importance of a business case
4. The feasibility study
5. Risk identification
6. Lesson 2 additional reading
7. Review what you have been learning

LESSON 3 MAINTAINING CONTROL THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT

1. Tools for control
2. When and where control needs to be exercised
3. Nine steps to successful project planning
4. Lesson 3 additional reading
5. Review what you have been learning

LESSON 4 INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

1. What is communication?
2. Communication systems and techniques
3. Setting up communications systems in projects
4. Active listening
5. Finding the right staff
6. Lesson 4 additional reading
7. Review what you have been learning

LESSON 5 THE END GAME

1. Reviews are costly
2. Lesson 5 additional reading
3. Review what you have been learning

LESSON 6 SOME GOLDEN RULES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

1. Lesson 6 additional reading
2. Review what you have been learning