Project Management
Course Overview
This course covers the basic principles of project management and covers some of the tools and techniques you can employ to improve your project management skills.
Course Content
The effective management of projects is an essential skill in many workplaces. Correct control of stages and different aspects of a project increases the chances of it being delivered successfully. When a project is managed correctly, there's a sound business reason for undertaking it, it's clear who's involved in delivering it, what the expected outcomes are, and how resources and risks will be managed throughout. When it's done poorly, a project can suffer from feature creep, delays, go over budget, or not get finished at all.
This project management e-learning course covers some of the common approaches to managing projects, from a simple to-do list through to more structured methodologies used across different industries.
The course covers how to set clear project goals and the practical steps involved in actually achieving them, rather than letting a project drift once the initial plan is agreed.
Before any project starts, someone needs to identify and justify why it's needed. The course covers how to recognise a genuine business need and build the case for starting a project around it.
The course introduces key project management tools used to plan, track and communicate progress. This is a good starting point for anyone new to project management before exploring more specific frameworks in depth.
Formal frameworks such as PRINCE2 and the Project Management Institute's PMBOK process groups, along with tools like Gantt charts and risk registers, are widely used in more structured project environments. This course is project management training for beginners and does not itself carry PRINCE2 or APM project management online accreditation, so if you need a formal, recognised qualification in one of these frameworks, you'll need to book that separately.
Keeping the right people informed at the right time, and managing changes to scope in a controlled way, are two of the most common reasons projects succeed or struggle, and the course touches on both as practical skills rather than abstract theory.
Many projects don't fail because of one big mistake, but because of small, avoidable issues left unmanaged: scope quietly expanding without anyone agreeing to it, risks that were identified but never actually tracked, or a change being made without checking its knock-on effect on cost or timeline. This course focuses on building the habits that catch these issues early.
Jumping straight into a specific methodology like PRINCE2 without first understanding why projects succeed or fail in general can mean learning the steps without understanding the reasoning behind them. This course is designed to give that broader foundation first, so more specific frameworks make more sense later.
Anyone taking on project responsibilities for the first time, or wanting a grounding in project management before progressing to more formal training such as PRINCE2 or APM qualifications.
Course Duration
90 mins
Course Certification
Approved by CPD
