What You Will Learn in This Project Management Course
- Understand the project life cycle and apply its phases from initiation to closing
- Define clear project scope and prevent scope creep from derailing your goals
- Build and read project schedules using network diagrams and critical path analysis
- Estimate and control project costs to keep budgets on track
- Identify, assess, and plan for risks to reduce surprises during delivery
- Plan and manage resources effectively to get the best from teams and tools
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and keep everyone aligned
- Build a solid foundation for advanced training and certifications such as PMP
Requirements
- No prior experience required. This course is designed for complete beginners
What This Free Beginner Project Management Course Covers
This free project management course gives you a practical foundation in the core knowledge areas that project managers use on real projects (scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder management) explained clearly, without unnecessary theory.
Whether you are joining a project team, managing your first small project, or simply trying to make sense of the project management processes around you at work. This course gives you the vocabulary, the frameworks, and the confidence to engage. You will understand how project managers think, what tools they use, and why decisions get made the way they do.
By the end of this course you will have a clear, structured understanding of how projects work and how to contribute to them with confidence. This course also builds the foundation for further study, including PMP certification preparation and Agile project management.
This Course Includes
- 14 on-demand lectures
- 1h 30m of video
- Free access, no payment required
- Self-paced, learn on your own schedule
- Worth 0.75 PDUs toward PMI recertification, see the PDU claiming guide
Who This Course Is For
- Working professionals who are new to project management and want a clear, practical foundation
- Professionals who work on or around projects and want to understand how project management actually works
- Career changers and early-career professionals preparing for project management roles or certifications
Course Curriculum
What the course covers and how to work through it
What the discipline is, and what a project manager is accountable for
How a project starts, and what integration management holds together
Defining what is in and out, and preventing scope creep
Sequencing the work, building a schedule, and finding the critical path
Estimating, budgeting and controlling what the project spends
Planning quality, assuring it, and controlling it
Planning, acquiring and managing the people and equipment the work needs
Planning who gets what information, when, and how
Identifying risks, sizing them, and planning a response to each
Buying goods and services, and managing the supplier once you have
Identifying stakeholders and planning how to engage each one
Pulling the twelve areas together, and where to go from here
A short close, and what to do next
Related Free Courses
- Introduction to Practical Project Management, the longer treatment, working through all ten knowledge areas in turn
- Project Management: Two Real Plans, Traditional and Agile, two complete plans built end to end, once traditionally and once in agile
- 14 on-demand lectures
- 1h 30m of video
- Free access
- Self-paced
- 0.75 PDUs