Introduction

Project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems. A project is a temporary endeavour designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services. In practice, the management of these two systems is often quite different, and as such requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies.
The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while honoring the preconceived constraints. The primary constraints are scope, time, quality and budget. The secondary and more ambitious challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and integrate them to meet pre-defined objectives.

Learning Outcome

Learning outcomes
By end of this course your will be able to:

• Define what is project management and why it is important and when to use it
• List most used approaches to project management
• Articulate the steps involved in project management
• Learn most important aspects of project management such as software, framework, types, structures and standards

Assessment

The learners will be assessed on the understanding and application and some aspects of evaluation related to project management namely:

• Distinguish between using project management and business as usual scenarios
• Articulate what project management is and when to use – List and distinguish different approaches to project management which one to apply under what circumstances
• List the steps involved in managing projects and articulate the issues and ways to deal with each phases of projects.
• Assess the knowledge related to tools, types, standards and frameworks related to project management.
• Application of Work Break Down structure up to 5 levels from main activity,
• Production of Gantt Chart using excel for a project linking with resources

Course duration:

16 Learning hours