Project Management is a start-to-finish approach to getting things done and making projects more successful. It’s a profession, but it’s also a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and manage project work more effectively. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives.

Topics include:

• Defining the components of a project
• What it takes to be a project manager
• Using project management software
• Managing project scope, budget, and schedule
• Managing project resources, including people
• Managing project risk
• Initiating a project
• Identifying and managing stakeholders
• Identifying requirements and deliverables
• Developing a project plan
• Building a project schedule
• Assigning resources to tasks
• Understanding the critical path
• Running the project
• Managing teams
• Monitoring performance
• Closing a project

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