If you’re getting started with project management, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with generally accepted best practices. In this course, PMP and Project Management guru Christina Tankersley will show you all the basics you need to know in order to effectively manage projects.

Once the course is complete, you will be able to:

• Identify the Key Processes and Requirements of Project Management
• Initiate a Project
• Plan for Time and Cost
• Plan for Project Risks, Communication, and Change Control
• Executing, Managing, and Controlling a Project
• Closing a Project

This course covers the following topics:

• Identify Characteristics of a Project
• Project Management Life Cycle
• Skills of a Project Manager, Part 1
• Skills of a Project Manager, Part 2
• Determining the Scope of a Project, Part 1
• Determining the Scope of a Project, Part 2
• Project Teams
• Identifying Risk
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Sequencing Activities
• Create a Project Schedule, Part 1
• Create a Project Schedule, Part 2
• Determine Project Cost
• Analyzing Risk to a Project
• Create a Communications Plan
• Change Control
• Begin Project Work
• Execute the Project Plan
• Tracking Project Progress, Part 1
• Tracking Project Progress, Part 2
• Reporting Performance
• Implement Change Control
• Project Closeout Process
• Creating a Final Report

Approximately 150 minutes

Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to pass this course. The course is able to be taken three times in efforts to achieve the pass mark.

Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.