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Project Management Course
Get the tools, tactics, and techniques to execute a successful project plan. In just 10 weeks you’ll learn how to adjust, adapt, and manage scope, expectations, resources, time, and unexpected obstacles. Learn one of the most versatile and marketable skills from leaders in the industry.
You’ll learn how to structure a plan of action for achieving the optimal outcome, factoring in the constraints of time, resources, and budget. As we know, even the best-laid plans aren’t immune to unanticipated external and internal factors that pop up in the implementation phase, you’ll learn how to spot danger signs, and how to adjust and adapt your approach accordingly. You’ll also learn the art of communication, and how to tailor the message to the various stakeholders so that they get the information they need, and you get the best results.
“Exceptionally helpful team to new users. The content is great and relevant to modern day work and is easily implementable in work situations. The theory-to-practical ratio is great as you get to put what you learnt into practice. ”
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Plan, implement and deliver exceptional results
In just a few short weeks and over 8 modules you’ll learn and get important Project Management skills. This course is for anyone who wants to take a thought, idea, or concept and transform it into a real and successful outcome. Give your CV an upgrade with this sought-after skill.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the critical role project management plays, and the value it can add to organizations
- How to take an intangible idea and transform it into a real and successful outcome
- Learn and understand a variety of methodologies (e.g. agile) that you’ll be able to implement immediately
- Manage scope creep, change requests, and unanticipated speedbumps and learn practical ways to control budget, timing, and resources to ensure quality delivery
This course is perfect for:
- Professionals in client service: whether at an ad agency or an IT solutions provider
- Individuals who need to harness the collective force of many stakeholders, and manage the optimal outcome
- Business owners – be it a tech startup or SME – who want to know how to streamline processes and deliver
- NGOs/NPOs that need to implement and manage projects effectively
- Newly appointed managers, who feel unsure about what they’re doing – or individuals gunning for a promotion and wanting something that’ll look great on a CV
- New entrants in the job market, who need to know the vocabulary and terminology to get ahead
Red & Yellow courses are made to future-proof your career
Our courses are designed to accelerate opportunities and give a boost to your CV. Top businesses across industries recognise Red & Yellow graduates as having the practical skills and the theoretical background to hit the ground running with confidence and creative flair.
Course curriculum:
Intro to Project Management
- Define a project
- Explain project management methodologies (including Agile)
- Develop a strategy for a project
- Describe the framework for an operational plan
Strategy and Planning
- Identify strengths and weaknesses surrounding the project
- Select key success criteria for a project
- Define the mission and goals of a project
- Develop operational strategies that tie project success to business success
- Determine the principal work activities for a project
Project Planning
- Write a business plan and learn how to create an operational plan
- Define a scope of work and deliverables
- Develop a Work Breakdown Structure
- Create a Gantt chart
- Design a communication plan
Risk, Issue, and Change Management
- Identify, analyze, and plan for risks
- Create a project quality plan
- Manage project quality
Quality Management and Measurement
- Write objectives for project deliverables
- Track project progress
- Develop goals, objectives, and performance standards
- Evaluate deliverables
Budgeting and Control
- Plan a budget
- Measure performance and effectiveness
- Report on project progress
- Communicate results to stakeholders
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Evaluate success
- Address underperformance
- Implement recommendations for corrective action
- Monitor, measure, and evaluate achievement
Leadership Skills
- Delegate efficiently
- React to the needs of your personnel
- Set up a performance contract
- Monitor performance
- Use resources optimally
This week is dedicated to your Research Project
Meet your team:
This course was created by, and benefits from, our full-time lecturers’ years of experience in the field – both in lecturing and in industry. They know how to nurture talent and bring out the best in students, resulting in many award-wins over the years.
About Red & Yellow
Creative thinking is the most important skill. Artificial Intelligence and robots are going to replace some of the jobs we know today.
Red & Yellow is the business school where talented people go to develop the career skills they need to thrive in this digital world.
R&Y unlocks creative thinking to build brilliant careers and organisations using Commercial Logic and Creative Magic.
We are vision-led and values-driven and we are developing the next generation of changemakers, creators and innovators.
We believe creative thinking is the most important skill of the future and it must be supported by uniquely human abilities such as leadership, adaptability and social intelligence.
We are a Creative School of Business that provides you with the commercial logic to grow successful organisations and more importantly the creative magic to set them apart.
We are teaching the great creators, inventors, leaders and entrepreneurs for the 21st Century.
We will be the most creative business school in the world.
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