#BU-04-53 Business Fundamentals: Project Management
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
The Open UniversityDescription
Visualise, plan, manage and evaluate projects successfully
Whatever the type or scale of your project, delivering great results, on time and budget, is always a challenge.
This online course introduces you to the essential skills and processes that support successful project management and helps you apply them to your own context.
While other project management courses propose complex methods and techniques, this course will give you the skill-set to play an active role in a project environment right away.
You will also gain confidence with project document templates in Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as some web tools for project management.
What topics will you cover?
- Project management definition
- Project lifecycle
- Initiation phase: scope and objectives definition, project stakeholders analysis
- Planning phase: Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt diagram, project budget, project team creation, project risk assessment, the Critical Path Method
- Execution phase: kick-off meeting, project monitoring and control, project team meetings, earned value analysis, project team motivation, evaluation and incentives
- Closure phase: project review and learning from closed projects
Who will you learn with?
Giacomo is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at The Open University Business School. He holds a work experience in project management both in consulting companies and in EU research projects.
Who developed the course?
The Open University (OU) is the largest academic institution in the UK and a world leader in flexible distance learning, with a mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas.
What Will I Learn?
- Describe the main aspects of each phase of the project lifecycle
- Apply principles and techniques of effective project management
- Identify models and templates to assist project management
- Develop time management, prioritisation, communication, and team management skills
Topics for this course
What is a project?
What is a project and why do we need projects?
Different project types
What makes a project successful?
Challenges of project management
Inside project management: interviews with experts00:03:03
How to classify projects
Evaluate a project00:03:30
Project lifecycle00:03:34
Project initiation phase
Initial planning steps
This course successfully visualizes, plans, manages, and evaluates projects, giving us a better understanding of how to manage a project.
This course presents complex methods and techniques for other project management courses, while this course gives me the skills set to play an active role in the project environment immediately. Very practical course.
I found the work breakdown structure, Gantt chart, project budget, project team creation, project risk assessment, and critical path methodology to be very good and worth learning in this course.
This course introduces us to the basic skills and processes that support successful project management and helps me apply them to my own environment.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is aimed at those already or likely to be involved in projects whether professional or personal. It assumes no prior project management or business knowledge, though an interest in the topic would be beneficial. Whether you’re at the start of your career and need an introduction to the subject, or you’ve been managing projects for years and are seeking to reflect on your experiences, you will get a lot out of this formal, yet practice-oriented, learning experience.
- For further information about registration, the final assessment course, your eligibility and the BA in Business Management, visit the Open University website.
- This course is supported by the Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered body for the project profession. APM is committed to developing and promoting project and programme management through its FIVE Dimensions of Professionalism.