Course description
Improve your technical project management skills with Alison’s free online course 'Diploma - Project Management in Practice'. This course covers the basic principles and practices essential in effective modern project management. The course will improve your project management skills for managing complex technical projects.
The course begins with an overview of the concepts in modern technical project management, and a basic introduction to Lean and Agile software development. The course then describes the various processes involved in project management such as project selection, initiation, procurement, leadership, planning, scheduling, risks, costs and budgets, resource allocation, monitoring and control. Finally, you will learn about negotiation as a critical skill, project management growth, and project closure.
This course is aimed at meeting the interests and needs of career professionals who value practical principles and guidance, and students who wish to build on past experiences and improve on effective strategies for managing complex technical projects. This includes an emphasis on applying concepts of project management to real-world issues. So, why wait? Start the course today and learn how to become an effective project manager!
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Training content
Project Management Foundations
Description: Learn more about the basic principles and practices involved in technical project management, geometric and living order, and an introduction to Lean and Agile software development.
- Learning Outcomes
- Modern Technical Project Management
- Living and Geometric Order
- Project Life Cycle and Living Order
- Roles of a Project Manager
- Lean - Eliminating Waste in Living Order
- Agile: Fast Feedback in Living Order
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Strategies for Project Management
Description: Learn more about strategies to adopt for effective project execution and portfolio management in the context of technical project management.
- Learning Outcomes
- Strategy in Technical Project Management
- Lean and Strategy
- Portfolio Management - Aligning Projects with Strategy
- Terminating Projects
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Project Initiation, Scope, and Structure
Description: Learn more about defining the project scope and structure, project success, and project initiation.
- Learning Outcomes
- Project Initiation and the Project Life Cycle
- Project Initiation
- Defining Project Success
- The Project Charter
- Managing Project Scope
- Project Context
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Procurement
Description: Learn more about procurement processes in technical project management from procurement relationships, procurement waste, supply chain management, and more.
- Learning Outcomes
- The Role of Procurement in Supply Chain Management
- Enterprise to Project Procurement
- Procurement Relationships
- Managing Procurement Waste
- Value over Price
- From RFP to Contract
- Procurement - Domains and Approaches
- Forms of Procurement
- Communication 101
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Project Leadership - Team Formation and Management
Description: Learn more about leadership in technical project management from team formation, team management, motivators and demotivators, and more.
- Learning Outcomes
- Teams in a Dynamic World
- Behaviors that Build Trust
- Team Motivators and Demotivators
- Managing Teams and Transitions
- Virtual Teams
- Core Considerations of Leadership
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Project Planning
Description: Learn more about project planning from the geometric and living order approaches, push and pull planning, sustainability, and contingency plans in this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- A New Planning Approach
- The Geometric Order Approach: Push Planning
- The Living Order Approach: Pull Planning
- Push Planning and Pull Planning
- Sustainability and Contingency Plans
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Project Scheduling
Description: Learn more about project scheduling in technical project management.
- Learning Outcomes
- From Planning to Scheduling
- Geometric and Living Order - Scheduling Methods
- Push - The Critical Path Method (CPM)
- Pull: Post-Its, Last Planner, and Agile
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Diploma in Project Management in Practice - First Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Diploma in Project Management in Practice - First Assessment
Project Risk Management
Description: Learn more about managing project risk in technical project management from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Risks, Threats, and Issues
- Risk Management and Project Success
- Risk Reporting
- Contingency Planning and Probabilistic Risk Modeling
- Ethics and Risk Management
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Managing Project Value, Budgets, and Costs
Description: Learn more about managing the value, costs and budgets of projects in technical project management from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Managing Scope for Success
- Understanding Budgets and Costs
- Target-Value Design
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Managing Limited Resources
Description: Learn more about managing limited resources in technical project management from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Managing Resources in Living Order
- Geometric Order Resource Optimization Techniques
- Estimating Resource Capacity in Agile
- Externalities and the Future
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Project Monitoring, Analytics and Control
Description: Learn more about project monitoring, analytics, and control in technical project management from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Monitoring for Active Control
- Information Overload and Project Dashboards
- Informed Intuition
- The Illusion of Linearity
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Improving Project Performance - Project Reviews
Description: Learn more about improving project performance using project reviews from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Getting the Fundamentals Right
- Auditing: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- Correcting Course or Shutting Down
- Closing out a Project
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Critical Project Management Skill - Negotiation
Description: Learn more about negotiation as a critical project management skill in technical project management from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Negotiation 101
- Information-Based Bargaining, Cultures, and Emotions
- Negotiation - Ethics and Dispute Resolution
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Personal and Organizational Project Management Growth
Description: Learn more about personal and organizational project management growth in technical project management from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Developing Yourself and Your Organization
- Project Management Maturity
- Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning
- Sustainability - Thick or Thin?
- Personal Project Management Maturity
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Putting All the Pieces Together
Description: Learn about putting all the pieces together in technical project management from this module.
- Learning Outcomes
- Reassess and Plan for the Future
- Event-Driven and Intention-Driven Project Management
- Creating a Professional Development Plan
- The Future of Technical Project Management
- Practical Tips
- Lesson Summary
Diploma in Project Management in Practice - Second Assessment
Description: You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.
- Assessment: Diploma in Project Management in Practice - Second Assessment
Course assessment
- Assessment: Diploma in Project Management in Practice - Final Assessment
Certification / Credits
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the importance of key skills requires in project management and leadership
- Identify your strengths and address weaknesses relating to key project management skills
- Evaluate the various methods for comparing and choosing competing projects
- Describe the steps required in the initiation of a project
- Outline how to design and use the necessary tools and processes for project planning and developing project objectives
- Explain how to effective means of monitoring and controlling project performance in line with project objectives
- Apply strategies for identifying, evaluating, and managing project risks
- Discuss strategic means of effectively auditing a project
- Evaluate effective methods for project closure
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