Project management essentials

What you will be able to do

Skills you add to your Herizon profile when you finish: project commissioning, Risk Management.

• What project management is, and the three limits every project balances
• The life of a project, from the first charter to the last lesson learned
• How to agree what is in a project and what is out
• Where agile, Scrum and Kanban fit inside a project, and where to learn them in full
• How to keep everyone involved informed, and how to handle the hard conversations
• How to spot what could go wrong, size it honestly, keep a risk register and raise a concern without causing panic
• How to choose a tool and how to build a career in project management

Who it is for

People changing career, and anyone who wants a clearer way to run work. You need no project management background. If you have ever pulled a team effort together, planned an event, or sorted out something with many moving parts, you have already done this work without the title.

The situation you work through

Noora, a project coordinator at the invented Paja Outdoors shop, runs one small project, moving the web shop to a new platform in 10 weeks, through scope, plan, stakeholders, risks and close.

Your practice task

Plan one small project of your own on a single page. Write a scope statement with at least three out-of-scope items, place at least five milestones on a line of weeks, map at least five stakeholders on a power-interest grid, and keep a risk register with five risks, each with an owner and a response. Add one status report written as if it were week 3. Put it in a Google Doc and submit the link.

What is inside

1. What is project management?
2. The project lifecycle
3. Scope and requirements
4. Agile vs. waterfall
5. Scrum basics
6. Kanban

and 5 more pages

Finish with a short quiz to earn your certificate.