Online Project Management Course

This online project management course is a new version of the course introduction to project management. It is based on the concepts as I presented them in the chapter "Traditional PM".

(The previous version is still available until end of June. You find a link at the end of this page.)

Target Group

If you are looking for a quick entry into the project management basics this course will serve you well.

Learning Objectives

You will learn fundamentals and the basic concept of project management. In particular, you will

• know the definitions of the most important terms,
• understand the project life cycle and how project management can be seen as a process,
• know and be able to build the core components of a project plan,
• know and be able to apply project controlling in implementation phase,
• know the main activities in closure phase.

Ideally, you use this online project management course in order to prepare for sub-sequent classroom training. I organized it into five lessons, five corresponding tests, and a final test. It takes you approximately five hours to go through the whole course, including all the tests, depending on how often you get interrupted.

Lesson 1 (opens in a new tab or window)

Basic Definitions
The Triple Constraint of PM
The Project Life Cycle - Overview
The Project Life Cycle - Summary
Project Management As a Process
Project Life Cycle and Project Budget
Test 1

Lesson 2

SMART Goals
Project Stakeholders
Test 2

Lesson 3

Project Scope
Effort Estimation
Project Schedule - Network Diagram
Project Schedule - Gantt Diagram
Project Schedule - Milestone Plan
Schedule Calculations - Intro
Forward and Backward Pass
Total Float and Free Float
Critical Path
Project Budget and Cost
Risk - Identification
Risk - Analysis
Risk - Management
Test 3

Lesson 4

The Control Cycle
Controlling Tools
Change Control
Test 4

Lesson 5

Closure Phase
Lessons Learned
Test 5

Final Test

The following button will open a new browser-tab or -window in which you can go through the course:

Start
the Course

Most of us prefer to go through such courses off-line in order to be independent from an internet connection. Therefore, we created a computer based training (CBT) and an e-book covering the same content and following the same structure.

Benefits of the CBT: It is easy to install, you are independent of the internet, and you can run the course anywhere and anytime. Its layout is similar to the on-line version and it comes with convenient navigation through a separate table of contents. Click here for more info, or

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Benefits of the e-book: it has an index and it comes together with an answer key for all tests. E-book and answer key are both in pdf-format. Click here for more info, or

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Here is the link to the old version: Lesson 1