Fundamentals of Project Management Course
Details
This online course is aimed at people interested in IT project management and builds on other business and IT courses available online at ALISON.
Every competent project manager needs to know the various phases and project management software and tools available do the job properly (such as the Gantt Chart). This free course will identify these phases and tools, enabling you to successfully manage any project.
CERTIFICATIONTo qualify for your official ALISON Diploma, Certificate or PDF you must study and complete all modules and score 80% or more in each of the course assessments. A link to your Diploma certificate will then appear under the My Certificates heading of your My Account page.
LEARNING OUTCOMESAfter completing this course you will understand the history of project management and learn from examples of interviews with project managers. You will gain a good knowledge of project management methodology. Each phase is examined: investigation, planning, design, production, monitoring and evaluation. You will be able to identify and understand the most important tools used by a project manager including GANTT charts, PERT Diagrams, estimating activity time, scheduling, expediting and Critical Path Method. You will gain a good knowledge of program, system, technical, user, paper-based, electronic and media project management documentation. This course will teach you the process of the systems development life cycle to help identify problems and create solutions in each stage of the projects life including planning, analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. You will learn about different issues that can occur when an information system is changed or a new sytem is introduced.
Outline
Project management overview
Project management methodology
Project management toolset
Project management documentation
System development life cycle
The planning phase
Project management, the analysis phase
The design phase
The implemention phase
Evaluation phase
Changing information systems
Project Management Assessment
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