Project Management and its Role in Effective Business Course - Coventry University
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Key Information
Campus location
Online United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
10 weeks
Pace
Part time
Tuition fees
USD 39 / per month *
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Introduction
Become an effective project manager and learn how to deliver strategic change and transformation in an organisation.
Implement effective project planning and execution to boost business performance
How can you become a better project manager, and what are the principles driving effective project management within an organisation?
This ExpertTrack has been put together to offer you the chance to cover everything you need to know about good project management.
You’ll be able to learn how to deliver strategic change and transformation through the management of projects in organisations.
You’ll also be able to develop your understanding of the stages, tools and techniques required for project initiation, planning, execution, control and closure.
What makes an effective project manager?
This ExpertTrack explores what it takes to successfully plan and execute a project while considering the wider business context in which the project operates.
You’ll consider a typical day in the life of a project manager and learn the key competencies of an agile project manager, as you explore scrum and waterfall models, project initiation, phases and extended life cycles.
Understand change management and minimise business risk
You’ll have the opportunity to learn the differences between a qualitative and quantitative risk analysis (including the Probability and Impact Matrix) and how to make a risk management plan in order to control, minimise and prepare for potential project hazards.
The project management skills and techniques within this ExpertTrack can be useful across a variety of positions and industries, whether you’d like to start or improve a career in project management, or you just want to add the methodologies to another role entirely.
Key skills you will learn
- Creating a business case
- Project phases
- Project processes
- Project prioritisation and selection
- Stakeholder management
- Managing change
- Agile management
- Knowledge management
- Communication
- Project Management
- Leading a team
- Organisation
ExpertTrack course overview
- Project Management: How to be a Successful Project Manager
Develop your understanding of the project life cycle and agile project tools on this introduction to effective project management. - Project Planning and Communication: Mastering Gantt Charts and Stakeholder Management
Improve your project planning and communicating skills and find out how to take a project to completion. - Unlocking the Risk Matrix: Project Risk and the Change Management Process
Learn to control, minimise and prepare for potential hazards, from qualitative vs quantitative to making a risk management plan. - Organisations and Project Management: P3M and Knowledge Management
Analyse the impact of the organisational environment on project deliverables and learn the skills to succeed in global projects. - Project Management: Agile Manifesto Principles
Learn to successfully navigate unpredictable scenarios within the context of product development using agile vs scrum methodology.
How ExpertTracks work
Join an ExpertTrack to master new skills in your chosen specialist area. Work through a series of topic-focused courses at your own pace, and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate award which proves your expertise.
Join a free 7-day trial Decide if the ExpertTrack is right for you with free access to the full suite of courses and assessments for a week. | Keep learning for $39/month Pay a monthly subscription fee of $39 for as long as it takes you to complete the ExpertTrack. You can learn at your own pace and cancel at any time. | Earn digital certificates Receive a certificate for every completed course and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate that you can share with your professional network. | Become an expert Use your specialist training to progress further in your career or build expertise in areas you’re passionate about. |
World-class learning with
Coventry University
Coventry secured gold in the UK Government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is the University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.
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- Pay $39 per month to keep learning online
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- Work at your own pace and set your own deadlines at every stage
- Only pay while you’re learning; the subscription will cancel automatically when you finish
- Complete online assessments to test your knowledge and prove your skills
- Earn digital course certificates and a final award that you can share online, with potential employers, and your professional network
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Program Outcome
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of project management within organisations to deliver successful change.
- Demonstrate competence in planning a project within a given organisational context.
- Investigate the application of project management methodologies and techniques used to organise and plan project time, cost, resources and people.
- Explore how cultural, communication, leadership and teamwork affect international project management.
Experience requiredIf you work in project management or are looking to add project management to your professional skills, this ExpertTrack will equip you with the technical and practical knowledge you need to manage and execute on projects effectively. It’s recommended that you have up to two years of experience in the field of project management whether as a student or in your own career, as some industry understanding will be useful. | Getting startedThis ExpertTrack is designed for anyone interested who wants to understand the fundamentals of project management in the context of an organisation. It will be of particular interest to professionals and individuals interested in project management – especially aspiring project managers, project managers looking to take their career to the next level, and people in other careers such as engineering looking to gain project management skills. |