This unit introduces core concepts, roles, tools, and ethical principles that define professional project management. Students will learn how to scope and plan a project using basic scheduling, resource-matching, monitoring, and communication techniques, preparing them for more advanced execution and control topics in subsequent units.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze characteristics that distinguish projects from ongoing operations and determine when an initiative should be managed as a formal project
- Apply project planning tools (network diagrams, work breakdown structures, and resource-matching techniques) and basic earned value concepts to produce a preliminary schedule and baseline
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder communication and resource-assignment by creating a sample communication plan and responsibility matrix for a project scenario
- Evaluate organizational environments, monitoring and control methods, and ethical principles (including the Code of Ethics and core values) to recommend appropriate governance and oversight strategies
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 16 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 1 — Foundations of Project Management16
- 1.1Determining What Makes a Project a Project20 mins
- 1.2Knowing the Project Manager’s Role20 mins
- 1.3Picture This: Illustrating a Work Plan with a Network Diagram20 mins
- 1.4Getting the Information You Need to Match People to Tasks20 mins
- 1.5Defining Three Organizational Environments20 mins
- 1.6Outlining the Key Roles20 mins
- 1.7Holding On to the Reins: Monitoring and Controlling20 mins
- 1.8I Meant What I Said and I Said What I Meant: Successful Communication Basics20 mins
- 1.9Taking a Look at the Agile Approach to Project Management20 mins
- 1.10Defining Earned Value Management20 mins
- 1.11What’s the Purpose of Your Project?20 mins
- 1.12Be a “Why” Person20 mins
- 1.13Preparing Your Project Plan20 mins
- 1.14Controlling Your Project during Performance20 mins
- 1.15Adopting a Principled Approach to Project Management20 mins
- 1.16Aligning with the Four Values that Comprise the Code of Ethics20 mins
Instructor
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