Foundations of Project Management
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Coventry UniversityDescription
Discover the principles of project management
What is project management? What are the essential concepts of project management? What factors affect the state of a project? Answer these questions and others with this course.
You’ll be taught the essentials of project management, including theoretical and applied perspectives. You’ll study project constraints such as cost, time, and resources.
You’ll also look at the role and the skills of project managers and investigate the opportunities for further professional development.
You’ll discuss and demonstrate competence in selecting and starting a project within an organisational context.
What topics will you cover?
- Core concepts of project management, including the prerequisites for a project (the business case), project management and the role of the project manager
- Project phases and processes, such as traditional project life cycles
- Factors important to project selection and prioritisation, as evidenced by organisational capability and available resource capacity
Who will you learn with?
I am an academic, entrepreneur and political activist working as Lecturer in Project Management at Coventry University. My primary research interest is sustainability in business and society.
Who developed the course?
Coventry secured gold in the UK Government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.
What Will I Learn?
- Assess the importance of project management in the context of various organisational cultures and strategies, and summarise the essential components of a project, and the processes considered essential for its successful completion
- Describe the project phases that make up a typical project, and summarise the project management processes that occur within each. Explain the relationships between subject areas, process groups, and processes
- Describe the typical project management process, its documentation and deliverables that are produced in each project phase
- Evaluate factors important to project selection and prioritisation as evidenced by organisational capability and available resource capacity
Topics for this course
Projects
Projects are everywhere
Welcome to Foundations of Project Management00:02:22
Getting the most out of your learning
What is a project?
Projectification and its consequences
Project constraints
Project managers
Focus on the future
Thank you so much for the training. I hope it can be applicable in every aspect project that was held in my company
The course has improve me in managering some project and allow me to know you must not be a construction engineer before you handle building.
This course provides a solid foundation for someone that knows nothing about project management.
The lecturer was good. The different sections were well laid out and the comments he made to further explain were outstanding.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for anyone interested in project management.
- Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.