This unit establishes core project management concepts, roles, and planning techniques, introducing tools such as network diagrams, resource-matching methods, and earned value management. Students will also explore monitoring and control, communication strategies, Agile fundamentals, and professional ethics to prepare for deeper planning and execution in subsequent units.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze the characteristics that distinguish a project and articulate the project manager’s roles and the project’s purpose to identify key stakeholders and success criteria
- Apply planning tools and techniques to develop a basic work plan, including constructing a network diagram and matching people to tasks based on skills and task requirements
- Demonstrate monitoring and controlling practices by applying earned value management metrics and change-control procedures to evaluate project performance during execution
- Evaluate organizational environments, team roles, communication strategies, Agile approaches, and ethical principles, and justify decisions that align project actions with a principled code of ethics
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 16 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 1 — Foundations of Project Management16
- 1.1Determining What Makes a Project a Project20 mins
- 1.2Knowing the Project Manager’s Role20 mins
- 1.3Picture This: Illustrating a Work Plan with a Network Diagram20 mins
- 1.4Getting the Information You Need to Match People to Tasks20 mins
- 1.5Defining Three Organizational Environments20 mins
- 1.6Outlining the Key Roles20 mins
- 1.7Holding On to the Reins: Monitoring and Controlling20 mins
- 1.8I Meant What I Said and I Said What I Meant: Successful Communication Basics20 mins
- 1.9Taking a Look at the Agile Approach to Project Management20 mins
- 1.10Defining Earned Value Management20 mins
- 1.11What’s the Purpose of Your Project?20 mins
- 1.12Be a “Why” Person20 mins
- 1.13Preparing Your Project Plan20 mins
- 1.14Controlling Your Project during Performance20 mins
- 1.15Adopting a Principled Approach to Project Management20 mins
- 1.16Aligning with the Four Values that Comprise the Code of Ethics20 mins
Instructor
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