Project Management

There are 9 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction
   • Understanding what project management is, and what its applications might be.
2. Project Identification
   • Identification and defining projects which need management.
3. Project Planning
   • Developing a strategy and framework for the plan.
4. Project Implementation
   • Managers duties during implementation
   • Developing a Preparation Control Chart
   • Regulating implementation.
5. Project Completion & Evaluation
   • Dangers in this stage
   • Steps in Project completion
   • Declaring a project sustainable
   • Developing an evaluation method.
6. Technical Project Management Skills
   • Preparing a proposal
   • Budget control/management
   • Steps in drawing up a post project appraisal.
7. Leadership Skills
   • Styles of leadership
   • Leadership principles and methods.
8. Improving Key Personnel Skills
   • Listening skills
   • Negotiation skills
   • Conflict management.
9. Major Assignment
   • Developing full documentation for a project.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

• Explain what project management is, and what its applications might be.
• Identify and define projects which need management.
• Plan a project.
• Implement a project.
• Evaluate a project following completion.
• Describe technical skills required to manage projects.
• Demonstrate project leadership skills.
• Identify and solve common project problems.
• Consolidate all of the skills and information from throughout the past 8 lessons, and manage a project effectively.