Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
1 Hour(s) 21 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Analytics Academy
Rating
Course Overview
Master project planning, scheduling, scope control, risk management, project closing & More
This Course Contains the Use of Artificial intelligence.
Project Management 101 is built for beginners and working professionals who want to learn real world project management skills that work in any industry, even if you have never managed a project before.
You will learn how to take any idea and convert it into a clear project with a strong problem statement, SMART goals, and measurable success metrics. You will learn how to identify stakeholders, sponsors, and decision makers, and create a simple project charter that ensures clarity, alignment, and approvals from the start.
You will master scope management so you know exactly what is in scope and out of scope, how to gather requirements, write acceptance criteria, and prevent scope creep using change control and trade off decisions. You will learn how to break work down using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and plan projects using milestones, dependencies, and realistic timelines, including the critical path concept.
You will also learn the execution side of project management, including how to run a strong kickoff, track progress across schedule, scope, quality, and risk, manage issues and blockers, and keep delivery stable with reviews, testing basics, and sign offs. You will learn risk management using a practical risk register, mitigation plans, contingency planning, and calm escalation techniques that prevent surprises.
You will understand Agile vs Waterfall in simple terms, including Scrum and Kanban basics, and how to apply a hybrid approach that matches how most real companies deliver projects.
Finally, you will learn how to close projects like a professional with handover checklists, documentation that matters, final acceptance and sign off, lessons learned, and post launch measurement, so your work delivers real outcomes, not just deliverables.
By the end of this course, you will be able to plan, execute, and close projects with confidence, and you will have a repeatable toolkit of templates and workflows you can use immediately.
Course Content
- 11 section(s)
- 12 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Setting Up a Project the Right Way
- Section 3 Scope & Requirements
- Section 4 Scheduling & Time Management
- Section 5 Cost & Budget Basics
- Section 6 Risk Management
- Section 7 People, Roles, and Team Management
- Section 8 Communication & Stakeholder Management
- Section 9 Execution, Monitoring & Control (Delivering Consistently)
- Section 10 Agile vs Waterfall
- Section 11 Closing the Project Like a Professional
What You’ll Learn
- Understand what project management is and how projects differ from day-to-day operations, Explain the full project lifecycle from initiation to closure and what happens in each phase, Convert a vague idea into a clear problem statement, project objective, and measurable success criteria, Define SMART goals, baseline metrics, target metrics, and guardrail metrics for any project, Identify all key stakeholders, sponsors, decision-makers, and cross-functional partners for a project, Create a simple stakeholder map and power–interest matrix to manage engagement effectively, Build a one-page project charter that includes scope, timeline, constraints, assumptions, and approvals, Write clear scope statements and set strong boundaries using in-scope vs out-of-scope definitions, Gather requirements using interviews, workshops, observation, and data-driven methods, Differentiate functional vs non-functional requirements and document both correctly, Write user stories with clear acceptance criteria so deliverables are testable and unambiguous, Create a “Definition of Done” to standardize completion and prevent rework, Prevent scope creep using phased delivery, change control, and trade-off conversations, Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to turn scope into manageable work packages, Measure project outcomes after launch and create a simple post-launch monitoring plan, Close projects professionally with handover checklists, documentation, and final acceptance
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMark Coryea
Gets to the point quickly
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SSheetal M
Clear & properly structured
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JJames Johnson
Nice framework
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SSarah J
Value for money. Good for beginners
