Project Management Essentials Introduction to Project Management E-learning

Learning objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Define Project, Program and Portfolio management
• Identify the role of the project management office
• Identify project constraints
• Describe different organisation structure
• Differentiate between project lifecycle and product life cycle
• List the five project management process groups
• Explain work breakdown structure
• Explain Gantt charts and network diagrams
• Describe the critical path method
• Define earned value management
• Identify different categories of risk
• Explain the different types of contract
• Explain Agile Project Management, its lifecycle and framework
• Describe the Agile Manifesto
• Define Scrum
• List Scrum history
• Give an overview of Scrum terminologies and roles
• List the best practices of Scrum
• Describe the Agile methodologies and Crystal
• Explain extreme programming, DSDM and feature driven development
• Explain the concept of Agile unified process
• Create a project using Microsoft Project 2013
• Navigate through the features of Microsoft Project 2013
• Identifying critical path using MS Project

• 12 months access to the introduction to project management elearning 

What's covered?

• Introduction to project management
• Project management techniques – overview
• Introduction to agile & scrum
• Other agile methodologies
• Managing projects using MS Project 2013

Target audience

This course is aimed at anyone who wants an introduction to various Project Management methodologies including PMP®, Agile and Scrum.

There is no formal exam associated with this course.