Project management is a core skill in today's fast-moving business environment and is important in any setting where work is organized around projects and project teams. Organizing scarce resources, managing tight budgets and deadlines, developing clear business and user requirements, and generating maximum team performance are key aspects of effective project management.
Through a media-enhanced, simulated case study, you gain the skills to successfully plan, manage and deliver projects using a 6-step process. You learn how to implement risk management techniques and mitigation strategies, estimate and schedule task work and duration with confidence, and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, you have access to templates and checklists for use back at the office.
In this course, you participate in an immersive, simulated case study, providing you with the practical skills necessary to write well-formed and validated user requirements. You learn how to organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document, prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project, and analyze requirements with a process mapping methodology.
In this course, you gain practical experience developing your leadership skills to build and sustain high-performing project teams. You learn how to develop effective team performance using the Leadership Services Model, build a strong team identity through vision, purpose and commitment, and foster positive and productive team communication. At the end of the course, you take away a project leadership best practices handbook and a personal development plan for use back at the office.
