Course content
The Project Management Essentials course covers the following topics:
- Key characteristics of projects.
- Responsibilities of a project manager.
- Resources to leverage when starting a project.
- Identifying key project stakeholders.
- Determining project requirements.
- Defining project scope.
- Building and leading a project team.
- Creating a project schedule and identifying key project milestones.
- Defining the project’s budget.
- Using data to assess project performance.
- Planning for and managing project risks.
- Ensuring projects are delivered to the required quality standards.
- Determining whether to complete work in-house or outsource to a third party.
- Selecting vendors.
- Controlling changes on a project and preventing ‘scope creep’.
- Developing a communication plan.
- Communicating with and effectively engaging project stakeholders.
- Approaches for managing conflict that may arise during the project.
- Getting projects back on track when behind schedule or over budget.
- Key steps in wrapping up a project at its completion.








