Content
Course content
The Project Management Specialist course consists of the following ten (10) online modules:
- What is a project?
- Project life cycle and phases.
- Focus areas and process groups.
- Project roles and responsibilities.
- Project management standards, tools, and technology.
- Project management approaches: predictive, adaptive, and hybrid.
- Key differences between waterfall and agile methodologies.
- Project management principles.
- Evolving project management practices.
- Sustainability and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in project management.
- What is the project environment?
- AI in project management.
- AI in practice: real-world applications and future considerations.
- Project initiation: business case.
- Project charter.
- The project team.
- Understanding the project team.
- Determining the project requirements, scope, resources, and costs.
- Planning project procurements and project quality.
- Stakeholder engagement (including analyzing stakeholder needs and planning your communication strategy).
- Planning for project risk.
- Acquiring and managing resources.
- Managing project work.
- Managing constraints, stakeholders, procurements, and risks.
- Project closure.
- Administrative closure.
- Challenges of closing projects.
- Project concept and envisioning.
- Iteration planning and readiness.
- Iterative execution.
- Release and retrospective.
- Evolution and understanding of hybrid project management.
- Hybrid design patterns and selection criteria.
- Benefits and challenges of the hybrid approach.
- Cultural and organizational considerations.
- Integration techniques and coordination strategies.
- Navigating organizational structures for project success.
- Change management.
- Navigating challenges and conflicts.
- Best practices for successful project management.
- Ethics in project management.
- Systems thinking.
