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Project Management: How to be a Successful Project Manager
Understand project management principles
What is project management? What are the essential project management principles? And what factors affect the state of a project?
You’ll have the chance to learn the answers to these questions and more on this project management course.
Discover the role of a project manager in the workplace
You’ll cover the essentials of project management, including theoretical and applied perspectives, and find out how to factor in project constraints such as cost, time and resources.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn the essential skills of project managers and their role in business, and find out how to develop your professional career further using the available opportunities.
You’ll also find out how to demonstrate competence in selecting and starting a project in an organisational context, as well as
- 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.
Start building your career in project management
In learning how to succeed in project management, you’ll take a look at a typical day in the working life of a project manager.
You’ll explore the competencies of agile project management, project initiation, phases and extended life cycles, and the key skills you’ll need to thrive in this position.
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
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- 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 typical project management process, its documentation and deliverables that are produced in each project phase
- 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
- Evaluate factors important to project selection and prioritisation as evidenced by organisational capability and available resource capacity
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested who wants to understand the fundamentals of project management in the context of an organisation.
It will be of particular interest to professionals and individuals interested in project management – especially aspiring project managers, project managers looking to take their career to the next level, and people in other careers such as engineering looking to gain project management skills.
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Ways to learn
Choose the best way to learn for you!
Buy this course
$54/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Subscribe & save
$349.99 for one year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Start learning today
Free
Try this course - with limits
- Limited to 2 weeks
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- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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