Foundations of Project Management

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Foundations of Project Management
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Overview

Explore the fundamental aspects of project management and develop your understanding of traditional project lifecycles.

Duration	2 weeks
Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Intermediate
Official Website	Explore Free Course
Credential	Certificate
Future job roles	Contract Law, CouchDB, Project Engineer, Cost Accounting, Event Management

Foundations of Project Management
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Highlights

Access to this course for 4 weeks
Offered by Coventry University

Foundations of Project Management
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Project Management

Who should do this course?

This course is for anyone interested in project management.

What are the course deliverables?

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

More about this course

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.Youll be taught the essentials of project management, including theoretical and applied perspectives. Youll study project constraints such as cost, time, and resources.Youll also look at the role and the skills of project managers and investigate the opportunities for further professional development.Youll discuss and demonstrate competence in selecting and starting a project within an organisational context.

Foundations of Project Management
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Curriculum

Core concepts of project management principles, 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