Learn the essentials of agile vs waterfall and knowledge management to improve your project manager potential with this ExpertTrack from Coventry University.
Implement effective project planning and execution to boost business performance
How can you become a better project manager, and what are the principles driving effective project management within an organisation?
This ExpertTrack has been put together to offer you the chance to cover everything you need to know about good project management.
You’ll be able to learn how to deliver strategic change and transformation through the management of projects in organisations.
You’ll also be able to develop your understanding of the stages, tools and techniques required for project initiation, planning, execution, control and closure.
What makes an effective project manager?
This ExpertTrack explores what it takes to successfully plan and execute a project while considering the wider business context in which the project operates.
You’ll consider a typical day in the life of a project manager and learn the key competencies of an agile project manager, as you explore scrum and waterfall models, project initiation, phases and extended life cycles.
Understand change management and minimise business risk
You’ll have the opportunity to learn the differences between qualitative and quantitative risk analysis (including the Probability and Impact Matrix) and how to make a risk management plan in order to control, minimise and prepare for potential project hazards.
The project management skills and techniques within this ExpertTrack can be useful across a variety of positions and industries, whether you’d like to start or improve a career in project management, or you just want to add the methodologies to another role entirely.
Industry statistics
Median base salary
£39,000UK job openings/month
7,320
Key skills you will learn
- Creating a business case
- Project phases
- Project processes
- Project prioritisation and selection
- Stakeholder management
- Managing change
- Agile management
- Knowledge management
- Communication
- Project Management
- Leading a team
- Organisation
Experience required
If you work in project management or are looking to add project management to your professional skills, this ExpertTrack will equip you with the technical and practical knowledge you need to manage and execute on projects effectively.
It’s recommended that you have up to two years of experience in the field of project management whether as a student or in your own career, as some industry understanding will be useful.
Getting started
This ExpertTrack is designed for anyone interested who wants to understand the fundamentals of project management in the context of an organisation.
It will be of particular interest to professionals and individuals interested in project management – especially aspiring project managers, project managers looking to take their career to the next level, and people in other careers such as engineering looking to gain project management skills.