Project Management

Project managers must be aware of all the work that goes into completing a project—in other words, its scope. Establishing scope with your team and your client sets you up for success.

However, even with planning, changes to scope are bound to happen. So, be prepared for adjustments and stay vigilant for scope creep.

When faced with an unfamiliar problem, where do you start? By assessing the issue and possible solutions? By jumping into action with the first strategy that comes to mind? Or, by simply avoiding the situation, hoping it resolves itself?

Creating a perfect, fixed project plan can actually cause your team to fumble—or even fail. Instead of trying to predict every upcoming adjustment, experienced project managers know how to anticipate changes and integrate them into existing plans.

Imagine managing a project without speaking to your teammates. How successful would you be? You’d soon discover that communication is key to collaboration. Without it, teams miss deadlines, fumble information, and fail to present a quality product.

Project management is essential to virtually every field—and it requires expert organizational, relationship-building, and strategic-thinking skills. In this course, you’ll explore the fundamentals of project management, including what a project manager does, what skills are necessary to the role, and how to optimize a team’s potential.

With so many different clients, teams, and projects to juggle, project management is a dynamic field. There’s always something new to learn for the enterprising project manager—and that means there’s always room to improve. In this course, you’ll explore the five most common mistakes that plague project management—and learn ways to counter each.

Waterfall. Lean. Scrum. Critical Path. These terms all have something in common: They’re types of frameworks that project managers can use to improve their team’s workflow.

In this course, you’ll learn what project frameworks are and how they benefit project managers.

No matter what field you work in, project management plays a significant role. From engineering and construction to software development and marketing, new projects demand effective project management. In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of project management.

Have you ever had a project get out of hand? With different people, tasks, and resources to manage, you might have felt stuck focusing on what was right in front of you. You might even have wondered if so many moving parts could be juggled at all.

Tasks, assignments, budgets, contingencies—these are just a few of the balls project managers must keep in the air. And while they’re juggling everything, they also have to keep information organized and ready to share with the larger team. What’s their secret? It starts with reporting.