Learn project management

Understand the purpose and boundaries of project work.

1. Introduction: project management certifications and this series
2. Life cycles and delivery approaches
3. Business case, benefits and value
4. Governance, roles and assurance
5. Ethics, compliance and sustainability

Clarify leadership, team working, communication and participation.

1. Leadership and vision
2. Teams, diversity and inclusion
3. Communication and knowledge transfer
4. Stakeholders and engagement
5. Conflict and crisis

Connect scope, dates, cost and capacity.

1. Requirements and scope
2. Schedule
3. Cost, budget and finance
4. Resources
5. Procurement and contracts
6. Quality and continuous improvement
7. Integrated planning and status reporting

Challenge value, uncertainty and progress assumptions.

1. Business case, benefits and value
2. Cost, budget and finance
3. Risk, opportunity and issues
4. Earned value

Assess changes, support adoption and transfer ownership.

1. Change control
2. Closure, transition and handover
3. Organisational change and transformation

Work through scheduling, estimates, value and delivery metrics.

1. Critical path and resource levelling
2. Estimation
3. Earned value
4. NPV, IRR and payback
5. Quality tools
6. Agile planning and metrics