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Business·12h

Project Management Essentials

Run projects that actually finish, on time and on budget.

ScopeScheduleRiskStakeholdersAgile vs Waterfall

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About this course

A practical course blending the predictability of PMI with the speed of modern agile practice. You'll learn to scope, plan, staff, report and recover a project without drowning the team in process.

What you'll learn

  • Scope a project with clear deliverables and acceptance criteria.
  • Build schedules with critical path and realistic buffers.
  • Identify, quantify and mitigate the top 5 risks on any project.
  • Run status meetings and stakeholder comms that don't waste time.
  • Choose between predictive, agile and hybrid approaches.
  • Recover a project that's gone off-track without blaming the team.

Roles this course opens up

Typical job titles that ask for this skill.

Project Manager
Program Manager
PMO Analyst
Scrum Master
Delivery Lead

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