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Overview
Get hands-on project management experience in just two days. This practical course shows you how to plan, manage, and deliver real projects using proven tools and techniques you can apply immediately at work.
What you will gain
- A clear understanding of the project manager's role
- A structured approach to planning and controlling projects
- Practical tools for scheduling, risk and change management
- Confidence to lead project meetings and communicate clearly
- Insights you can use straightaway on your current projects
Who this course is for
- Team members who work on projects and want more structure
- New or aspiring project managers without formal training
- Business professionals who manage projects alongside day jobs
- Managers who want a concise refresher on core PM techniques
Benefits
Practical and focused
Learn the essentials in two intensive days with no unnecessary theory.
Taught by an expert
Gain insights and tips from an experienced project manager and author.
Hands-on learning
Practise tools in exercises, case studies, and group discussions.
Immediately applicable
Leave with templates and techniques you can use the next day at work.
Small class sizes
Get plenty of time to ask questions and discuss your own projects.
Great step towards certification
Build a solid base if you later choose to take an accredited PM course.
Delivery
This is a 2-day, instructor-led online course. You join a live virtual classroom, interact with your trainer and peers, and work through practical exercises in real time—just as you would in a face-to-face workshop, but without the travel.
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Project Management Essentials deepens your understanding of how projects really work. Across two days you follow a project from initial idea through to delivery, learning the key steps, roles, and documents needed to keep everything on track.
Understand the project lifecycle
Gain a clear view of how projects move from initial idea through delivery to closure.
Define projects clearly
Learn how to clarify objectives, scope, success criteria, and constraints with sponsors and stakeholders.
Build realistic plans
Practise creating schedules, estimating effort, and identifying dependencies using simple planning tools.
Manage risks and issues
Learn practical techniques to identify, assess, and respond to risks, issues, and assumptions.
Work with people effectively
Develop skills for communicating with stakeholders, managing expectations, and supporting the project team.
Control and report progress
Learn how to track progress, manage changes, and report status so projects stay on course.
Curriculum
The course follows the life of a typical project and covers the following topics.
- Project management fundamentals
- Defining and initiating a project
- Planning scope, time, and resources
- Managing risk, quality, and change
- Leading the team and engaging stakeholders
- Controlling progress and closing the project
Full curriculum details
Project management fundamentals
- What projects are and how they differ from business-as-usual work
- Benefits of using a structured project management approach
- Key roles and responsibilities within a project
Defining and initiating a project
- Clarifying project objectives, scope, and success criteria
- Identifying stakeholders and understanding their needs
- Creating a simple project charter or brief
Planning scope, time, and resources
- Breaking work down using a work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Estimating effort and duration for tasks
- Developing a realistic schedule and resource plan
Managing risk, quality, and change
- Identifying and analysing project risks and issues
- Planning and tracking responses to risks and issues
- Basic quality planning and handling scope changes
Leading the team and engaging stakeholders
- Building and motivating a project team
- Effective communication methods during the project
- Managing expectations and resolving conflicts constructively
Controlling progress and closing the project
- Monitoring progress against the plan using simple controls
- Reporting status to sponsors and stakeholders
- Closing the project and capturing lessons learned
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