Project Management Fundamentals

Overview

As we find ourselves amid a digital revolution where the business world has had to adapt to a new fast-paced landscape, project management training is essential. Customers and stakeholders want to be more involved, more vocal, and expect improvements and new features more regularly.

Projects are a vehicle to produce change into your organisations working patterns or product line up. Therefore, everyone within the organisation must understand the project lifecycle's fundamental principles and processes.

The Project Management Fundamentals training equips learners with understanding the key principles, processes, and roles of the project environment. By gaining knowledge of the key approaches, practices, and terminology utilised across the business environment, learners can deliver a strategic vision to optimise a team's performance.

Who should attend this course?

Project management is an essential skill across all sectors. The course is relevant for anyone interested in understanding the project lifecycle and their part in it. If you are a project manager, stakeholder involved in supporting the project manager, member of the PMO or within a project support role, then this course is for you.

What principles we will learn:

Project Management has eight key principles based on both common sense and pragmatism.

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  Align with the business need 
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  Focus on the outcome 
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  Learn from experience 
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  Manage by exception 
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  Never compromise quality 
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  Deliver on time and to budget 
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  Communicate clearly and continuously 
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  Demonstrate control 

Learning outcomes 

Having completed our Project Management Fundamentals training, you will understand the project lifecycle and how the project brings many benefits to the business. Fundamentally, these can be distilled down to four headlines:

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  Creation of better products by focusing on value to both the customer and the producer. 
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  More transparency through vision and practices to drive your development team. 
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  A true understanding of accountability and the ability to ensure the right people are involved in your decision making. 
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  Greater ability to learn quickly and successfully adapt.

Prerequisites 

The course is suitable for anyone considering moving into a project role or affected by project activity. No prior knowledge of project management is needed for our Fundamentals course.

Course Outline  

The course sessions will take the form of a workshop, working as a whole group or breaking into small groups to explore the content through exercises, for instance, games and discussions. Your trainer will lead a retrospective at the end of each session to help you put what you have learned into concrete actions and practical use.

There is no exam necessary for this course but upon completion, you will receive a certificate and digital badge from Cert Unlimited.

Course modules

Over the course, we will learn: 

Module 1 – What is a Project? 

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  What is the purpose of a project?
  
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  Programmes and portfolios 
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   Why use a project?

Module 2 – Who is involved in project delivery?

• Project Manager
• SponsorSteering Committee 
• PMO 
• Delivery Team 
• Stakeholders

Module 3 – The Project Lifecycle

• Pre-project
• Starting the project 
• Planning and initiation 
• Delivery and deployment 
• Gateways and stages 
• Closing 
• Post project

Module 4 – Project Management tactics

• Planning and estimating
• Risk and issue management 
• Quality and scope
•  Monitoring and control 
• Change management

Module 5 – Project approaches and frameworks

• Prescriptive v iterative 
• Output v outcome 
• Frameworks 
• PRINCE2, APM, PMI, DSDM

What's Included?

The Project Management Fundamentals course includes the following:

Interactive classroom sessions

Whether you choose online virtual learning, on-site or one of our city-centre training centres for your learning, our trainers make classroom sessions as interactive as possible by using a range of innovative technologies. We incorporate breakout sessions, games, and various other exercises, plus encourage learners to share ideas and feedback. 

Pre-course reading video 

Unlike other training providers, our pre-course reading comes in an interactive and easy-to-follow video format which you can watch in your own time or listen to via audio. As a result of our pre-course preparation videos, you can say goodbye to bulky print outs and save yourself valuable time. 

Community of learners 

At Cert Unlimited, we create a community of learners that presents a platform to discuss new and old ideas in a safe environment. You'll have the opportunity to develop theory into ideas, vision, and strategy and take this learning into the workplace to experiment with your unique context, culture, and teams. 

Cert Unlimited Project Management training certificate 

Our Project Management Fundamentals training certificate is indicative of a commitment to professional and personal development. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a digital certificate and digital badge to display on your resume.

FAQs

• Do I need to purchase or read any other course materials? No
• Is there homework to complete outside of the classroom? No, tasks will be completed with the course duration with guidance from our trainers. 
• What course should I study next? Agile Project Management Foundation or APM PMQ is the perfect courses to follow on from our Project Management Fundamentals course.