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Project Management Basics

Learn how a small project is defined, planned, tracked and closed: charter, scope, schedule, budget, risks and status reports. Five short lessons and a quiz, with a certificate of completion.

60minutes
5lessons
1final quiz
Freecertificate of completion

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain what a project is and describe its five stages
  • Write a one-page project charter with a success test you can check
  • Turn a vague request into a scope statement and a work breakdown structure
  • Find the critical path in a small task list and build a budget with a contingency
  • Keep a risk register and write a short status report with a red, amber or green rating
  • Run a change request and a closing checklist on a small project

Curriculum

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Course lessons

5 lessons · module quiz
  1. 01What a project is and how it runsLesson
  2. 02Defining scope and breaking down the workLesson
  3. 03Schedule, critical path and budgetLesson
  4. 04Risks, communication and status reportsLesson
  5. 05Tracking, change control and closingLesson
  6. 06QUIZProject Management Basics quizQuiz