How to complete the course

Course Assessment All course units have a short quiz or other activities to help you review and practice your learning. You can attempt these as…

Getting Started

https://vimeo.com/735692608 Welcome to the Project Management Framework course. This is a self-directed learning programme designed to help you develop new skills at your own pace.…

What’s Next?

https://vimeo.com/747656552 So, what’s next? There’s been a lot covered in this course. Here are some suggestions for your next steps in project management: Reflection on…

Let’s Review

Review of Learning Outcomes When we started the course, our objectives were to develop knowledge about the following points: Recognise a common language of project…

Summary of Unit 4

https://vimeo.com/747335945 And that is the end of our case studies! We walked through the DigiControl Ltd 2-day strategy conference project, and we gave you the…

Microsoft Project Demonstration

https://vimeo.com/752900917 This video shows how the New Garden Project can be created in Microsoft Project. The demonstration shows how to re-create the New Garden Project…

Exercise 12: Change Management

Over to you Traditional project management attempts to predict the future. This is where we create a plan of what we think should happen, and…

Exercise 11: Communication Management

Over to you Communication is a big job for the Project manager. Effective communication is required for any project’s success. There is a file available…

Exercise 10: Risk Management

Over to you We have come a long way in this project plan – we have clear objectives in the project charter, a budget, and…

Exercise 9: Milestone Schedule

Over to you The milestone schedule extracts only the key milestones from the project. The image below shows you an example of a milestone schedule…

Exercise 8: Gantt Chart

Over to you The project team needs a schedule plan for the work they will be involved in. In this exercise, you will produce a…

Exercise 6: Dependency Chart

Over to you The first step in this exercise is to create the dependencies between the work phases. Here are some logical rules to do…

Exercise 5: Budget

Over to you In this exercise, you will build a Budget for the project. Please download the file with the budget instructions and complete the…

Exercise 4: Responsibility Matrix

Over to you In this exercise, you will build a Responsibility Assignment Matrix, or RACI Chart. The following roles make up the Project Team: Garden…

Exercise 3: Work Breakdown Structure

Over to you Using the Project Charter Model Answer as a guide, brainstorm the activities/tasks required to complete this project. If you wish, you can…

Exercise 2: Stakeholder Register

Over to you In this exercise, you will start building the Stakeholder Register of your project. Please download and complete the template attached to the…

Exercise 1: Project Charter

Over to you You have been asked to manage a project to design and landscape the rear garden area of a house. From your initial…

Case Study: New Garden Project

It’s time to look at the New Garden Project Case Study and start putting in practice what we have learned on the course. In this…

Case Study: Digicontrol Ltd

https://vimeo.com/755587996 In this section, we will walk together through the first case study. We will apply our toolkit of 11 tools to the case study…

A Project Management Toolkit

https://vimeo.com/755584849  In Unit 4 we will be looking at two case studies: Digicontrol Ltd Project. For this case study, we will do a walkthrough of…

Summary of Unit 3

https://vimeo.com/735736813 In Unit 3, we covered ten project management knowledge areas, and also some concepts about the change management process. We also listed some tools…

Change Management

Resistance to Change We have talked about making changes to the project plan, and the effect of changes through the knowledge areas we have covered…

Project Stakeholder Management

https://vimeo.com/736109463 Project Stakeholder Management is about identifying the people, the groups, and the organisations that could be or are impacted by the project. It is…

Project Communication Management

https://vimeo.com/736080198 Project Communications Management is about planning communications, distributing information, reporting, and basically keeping our stakeholders informed of what is happening in the project.  Communication…

Project Resource Management

https://vimeo.com/755575904 Project Resource Management is about identifying, acquiring, and managing the resources to complete the project. We need to ensure we have the resources to…

Project Procurement Management

https://vimeo.com/715508178 There are few processes required during Project Procurement Management in order to get in goods and services from outside of our organisation. We need…

Project Risk Management

https://vimeo.com/755551173 Project Risk Management is about the processes concerned with identifying, analysing, and responding to or controlling project risks.   Plan Risk Management. The process of…

Project Integration Management

https://vimeo.com/755538452 Project Integration Management is a subset of processes that make sure everything in the project fits together: Develop Project Charter. The process of developing…

Project Quality Management

https://vimeo.com/715506877 We are now in our fourth knowledge area which is quality management. These are the processes required to make sure that the project satisfies…

Project Cost Management

https://vimeo.com/756686527 In this topic, we will learn how to build a budget to working out how much a project actually costs. In Project Schedule Management…

Project Schedule Management

https://vimeo.com/755530111 Project schedule management is about understanding the project’s schedule so that we can finish the project on time. Schedule management is just part of…

Project Scope Management

https://vimeo.com/756685941 Project Scope Management is about the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to…

Project Management Knowledge Areas

https://vimeo.com/715506026 Over 20 years or so, the Project Management Institute (PMI) developed the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) to effectively…

Summary of Unit 2

https://vimeo.com/735721371 We have reached the end of Unit 2. In this unit we have covered important concepts about the project life cycle and the main…

Team Roles and Work Phases

Completing the Self-assessment Before starting Unit 3, attempt the Team Role and Work Phase Self-assessment. As with all self-assessment questionnaires, it could be argued that…

Closing

Plan the End of the Project Inherently, we do not plan the end of a project in as much detail as we do at the…

Monitoring and Controlling

https://vimeo.com/755495675 In the Monitoring and Controlling Process is when we can find big reasons for projects to fail, such as: Poorly defined objectives Poor communication…

Executing

https://vimeo.com/756683659 In the Executing Process, we need to manage the resources as we execute the plan in order to achieve the project’s objectives and respond…

Planning

Planning is a lot more than scheduling In the Planning Process, we will write down what we will be doing in the project. This will…

Initiating

https://vimeo.com/735712165 The purpose of the Initiating Process is to commit the organisation to the project, and define the high-level deliverables and the project scope. We…

Project Life Cycles

https://vimeo.com/755475372 As we move through the process groups, there are different amounts of efforts involved. Even though the processes are shown as consecutive, there will…

Project Management Process Groups

https://vimeo.com/715491904 Let’s take a look at the five main project management Process Groups. This is a logical grouping of project management processes. Each of these…

PMBoK 6 v PMBoK 7

PMI BoK 6 vs BoK 7 Welcome to Unit 2.  The main purpose of unit 2 is to look at the 5 main project management…

Summary of Unit 1

https://vimeo.com/735711101 This first unit has set the scene around the world of project management. We looked at some project management definitions, and we investigated different…

Team Organisational Structures

The Four Organisational Structures The people on our projects are often the defining factor of whether the project ends in success or failure – how…

Emotional Intelligence

What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence is sometimes referred to as EQ and opposed to IQ. EQ allows you to develop positive relationships. Relationships with…

Tuckman’s Team Development Model

https://vimeo.com/755450096 In this topic we will be discussing the Bruce Tuckman’s Team Development Model. Projects are delivered by people, and people work well in teams.…

Team Development Model

https://vimeo.com/755449600 We have talked about the importance of developing interpersonal skills, being a project leader, and being capable of developing the project team. The Team…

Project Management Behavioural Skills

https://vimeo.com/755447115 Project management is about dealing with people. As such, communication is an important skill set. Managing the inevitable conflict between stakeholders requires good facilitation…

Time Management

https://vimeo.com/706904882 Project manager have a lot to do and time management is a big issue. We will share with you some tips on time management…

Leadership

https://vimeo.com/755445211 Project managers have so much to achieve – they need to deliver on time, on budget, and keep all stakeholders satisfied. These stakeholders may…

Project People

https://vimeo.com/706904445 Which of these situations is better?  Can you run a successful project if you have got excellent project management qualifications, but no interpersonal skills…

Clear Objectives

How can we get our objectives clear? The biggest reason for project failure is often unclear or unagreed objectives. To get clear objectives for a…

Project Failure

Why do companies run projects? Projects are often run either to make or to save money. There are a few other reasons, but ‘make or…

Benefits of Project Management

https://vimeo.com/735699734 Projects are only going to get bigger and more complex. Being able to manage projects will add value to the business. Manage projects successfully,…

The Project Management Office (PMO)

https://vimeo.com/735699728 The Project Management Office (PMO) serves the needs of the project managers and the projects. They do not get directly involved in delivering projects.…

Organisational Project Management

https://vimeo.com/755439169 We are going to think about higher level project management now – at an organisational level. Project management includes both strategy and tactics. Ideally,…

Types of Projects

https://vimeo.com/735696524 Eddie Obeng suggested that there are 4 types of projects: Type 1: Painting by NumbersIn this type of project, we know what we have…

Project Management Approaches

https://vimeo.com/735696520 There are three main project management approaches:  Predictive  Adaptive  Hybrid Predictive Project Management Historically, we have done predictive or traditional – sometimes also called…

Key Concepts and Definitions

What is a Project? The textbook definition of a project is that it is “a project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique…

The Project Management World

Project Management Standards and Certifications In the last 30+ years, the Institute has been actively engaged and involved in bringing to professionals world-class training and…