Foundations of Project Management

What this subject covers

Lesson topics

1. What Is a Project? Distinguishing Projects from Operations
2. What Is Project Management? Scope of the Discipline
3. The Project Life Cycle: Initiation to Closure
4. Project Success Criteria: Time, Cost, Quality and Beyond
5. The Iron Triangle (and Why It's Not the Whole Picture)
6. Roles in a Project: Sponsor, Manager, Team, Stakeholders
7. The Project Manager's Core Responsibilities
8. Project Governance: Oversight and Decision Rights
9. The Business Case: Justifying a Project Before It Starts
10. Project Charters: Formally Authorising a Project
11. Programme and Portfolio Management: How Projects Fit the Bigger Picture
12. Organisational Structures for Projects: Functional, Matrix, Projectised
13. The Project Management Office (PMO): Purpose and Functions
14. Defining Project Scope
15. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Breaking Work Down
16. Requirements Gathering for Projects
17. Assumptions, Constraints and Dependencies
18. Project Selection: Choosing Which Projects to Pursue
19. Feasibility Studies
20. Project Management Methodologies: An Overview (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid)
21. Ethics and Professionalism in Project Management
22. Common Reasons Projects Fail
23. The Project Manager as Leader vs Administrator
24. Tools of the Trade: Software and Templates
25. Building a Career in Project Management