WELCOME
Welcome to Project Management Basics.
We hope that you are excited about taking up the challenge of furthering your education.
Helpful tips for this course:
- Start off at introduction, preface.
- When you complete the lesson and understood the course work you can mark it as complete.
- You will automatically be taken to the next lesson.
- If you need to go back to any lesson you can at any time.
- You will complete 2 assignments during this course.
- Successful completion of the assignments will allow you to graduate and get your certificate.
Good luck and enjoy!
Lessons
Chapter 1: Project Management
- Introduction
- What is Management?
- What is Project Management?
- What is a Project?
- Importance of Projects
- Project work vs. non-project work
- Project Management vs General Management
- The Role of the Project Manager
- Why are Projects undertaken?
- Projects in Business
- Why do Projects fail?
- Characteristics of Successful Projects
- The Project Life Cycle
- Chapter Summary
Chapter 3: The Planning Phase
- Introduction
- Project Planning
- The importance of planning in projects
- Advantages of Planning
- What is a project management plan?
- Attributes of an effective project plan
- How to draw up a project plan
- The project Management flow chart
- Presentability of the project plan
- What is Project Scope?
- What is Scope Management?
- Importance of the scope
- The work breakdown structure
- The importance of the work package
- Creating the WBS
- Product breakdown structure
- Cost break down structure
- Organisation Breakdown structure
- Structures Combined
- Advantages of doing a work breakdown structure