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Difficulty level

Beginner

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  • 35% started a new career after completing these courses
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Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • In this course you will learn how to initiate, define and organize a project
  • How to develop a project plan, including scoping, sequencing tasks, and determining a critical path
  • How to assess, prioritize and manage project risk
  • How to execute projects and use the earned value approach for monitoring and controlling progress
More about this course
  • Projects are all around us. Virtually every organization runs projects, either formally or informally. We are engaged in projects at home and at work. Across settings, planning principles and execution methodologies can offer ways in which projects can be run more effectively and efficiently. Project management provides organizations (and individuals) with the language and the frameworks for scoping projects, sequencing activities, utilizing resources, and minimizing risks.This is an introductory course on the key concepts of planning and executing projects. We will identify factors that lead to project success, and learn how to plan, analyze, and manage projects. Learners will be exposed to state-of-the-art methodologies and to considering the challenges of various types of projects.
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Curriculum

Welcome to the World of Projects

The Ins & Outs of Project Planning

It's a Risky World & Then the Unexpected Happened

Ready, Set, Go: Project Execution

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    swati goswami
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    Learning Experience: The course is very good for the beginners who want to move in project management profile . It is having basic knowledge of SDLC, Agile and waterfall models which are very relevant to use them in any project. This will definitely give you a new view to work professionally.
    Faculty: Faculty are the real project managers who actually have practical knowledge as they are working as a project manager as well It provides us the vedio and the learning documents and assignment to get hands on experience
    Course Support: Yes we get many of job opportunity through this and very reputatated organy in which any one would dream to work with
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    Sanjay K Pathak
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    Learning Experience: Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring; Control and Closing.
    Faculty: Faculty was wonderful. Her name is Professor Yaro Grushka-Cockayne. Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
    Course Support: Got a better understanding of project management
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    Manjula Rajesh
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    Learning Experience: Fundamentals of project planning
    Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
    Course Support: No career support provided
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    Sanjay Kumarr Pathak
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    Learning Experience: Project planning, execution, risk analysis and mitigation, team management
    Faculty: Instructors taught well Yes, very well structured course and wonderful instructor
    Course Support: I took this course to upskill myself
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    M Umesh
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    Learning Experience: Basics of project planning
    Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum not relevant
    Course Support: No career support provided
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