Do you want to learn more about project management but have limited time to do so? Did you just get assigned to a project team and want to be sure you’re “speaking the same language” as all the other team members? Are you a project manager who wants your team to have a similar understanding of the tools, terms, and steps involved for effective project management? Try our online self-paced Project Management Basics course. Tailored for participants who prefer to be flexible and fit training into their free time, this 10-hour course can be completed at the learner’s pace and convenience. This delivery option is also fantastic for supervisors who wish to get geographically scattered teams up to speed on project management practices and procedures.
Learn the techniques that will help you plan, implement, and complete projects with desired results…on time and within budget. Learn how project management systems and tools create clear project missions and goals. Understand how to use common project management tools such as RACI charts, network diagrams, and Gantt charts. Learn the basics of estimating project time and costs, scheduling and allocating time-critical resources, and establishing feedback systems for project control.
The entire course can be completed in under 10 hours, and the online interface makes it easy to jump to just the areas you’d like to explore or need further understanding in. Completion of all the course modules is not required.
The Project Management Basics course is meant as a stand-alone introductory course and cannot be used toward completion of any of our professional development certificates, including the Professional Development Certificate: Master’s Certificate of Project Management. Participants have 90 days from their first entry into the course learning system to learn, explore, and participate in the class. Please allow one business day from the day of enrollment to receive access to this online, self-paced course.
If you are interested in completing the Professional Development Certificate: Master’s Certificate of Project Management, refer to the more rigorous 21-hour foundation course for the series called Project Management: Planning, Scheduling, and Control, which is offered in both an online virtual classroom and traditional classroom format.
You will learn how to:
- Identify the processes involved in project management: initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing
- Identify the relationship between scope, time, and cost and discover how these factors affect the success and quality of the project deliverables
- Develop elements of a project charter
- Understand the four stages of team development and build RACI charts for team member roles
- Identify and analyze stakeholders
- Prioritize customer needs for the project
- Develop project scope statements
- Understand the purpose of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Understand sequential and simultaneous scheduling concepts
- Understand critical path and float time for scheduling project activities
- Understand Gantt diagrams and network diagrams
- Use duration, work, and elapsed time measures
- Understand core elements of leading and managing teams
- Create communication plans
- Understand concepts related to Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Manage scope change to the project
- Build project status reports
- Gain agreement that the project deliverables are complete
- Develop a process for project hand-off to the customer
- Organize support elements needed for project close
PMBOK™ knowledge areas
- Time, cost, scope management
- Quality management
- Risk management
- Project integration
- Communication management
- Human resource management