A fast-track micro-course for project management excellence
A specialized micro-diploma designed for fast-tracked learning—complete in just weeks and gain industry-ready project management expertise! This program offers a structured, hands-on approach to mastering essential project management principles, equipping you with the skills to lead, execute, and deliver successful projects in a limited time.🚀💻
Program Modules & Curriculum
Explore our structured micro-course modules, designed for fast-paced learning with practical applications. Each module provides hands-on experience, ensuring you gain real-world project management expertise. Below is a breakdown of the key topics covered in this diploma:
Fundamentals of Project Management - CAPM
Fundamentals of Project Management, which is a foundation level module in project management, is an overview of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), Seventh Edition and Process Groups: A Practice Guide. It provides an overview of the best practices in professional project management and focuses on ten knowledge areas and five process groups and associated processes, inputs, outputs, and tools and techniques. Additionally, twelve project management principles and eight domains are also discussed.
Project Management Integration
Management of the various aspects of a project, such as, scope, schedule, budget, or risk cannot be looked at in isolation. A change in one area affects the other areas and hence they are all integrated to one another. Project integration management includes the processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups.
Managing Project Requirements and Scope - ECBA, CCBA, and CBAP
Collecting project requirements and defining project scope are one the most challenging areas of project management. According to some sources one of the biggest reasons for project failures is not being able to define project scope properly. Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
Managing Project Schedule
Understanding a project’s schedule requirements and the time-phasing of project tasks is the backbone of effective project management. Project managers need a variety of scheduling tools and techniques to plan today’s complex and fast-moving projects. This module delivers the knowledge you need to create clear project missions and goals, accurately estimate project time, manage project scope, schedule and allocate time-critical resources, and establish feedback systems to ensure project control.
Managing Project Procurement
This module is designed to help participants manage the procurement aspects of projects. Topics covered include planning the procurement process, developing procurement Scope of Works, Request for Proposal (RFP), supplier selection, competitive bidding, price negotiation, teaming arrangements and subcontractor management. The module also covers selecting the proper contract type and explains the strengths and weaknesses of all possible contract approaches.
Introduction to MS Project
It is essential for the students and practitioners of project management to know about project scheduling software and MS project is one of the most widely available and used project management software. In this module, the students will learn about MS project as a tool to develop project schedule and budget. The students will learn how to create a detailed schedule and budget for a project using MS project and track the actual progress of the project.
Managing Project Communication
According to Project Management Institute (PMI), about ninety percent of a project manager’s time is spent communicating to project stakeholders. Therefore, identification of project stakeholders and then tailoring communicating management as per their communication preferences is very important for project’s success. This module, therefore, covers two important knowledge areas under Process Groups: A Practice Guide (a) Project Stakeholder Management and (b) Project Communication.
Managing Project Quality
Quality, in any process or product, is an important concept and project management is no exception. Project Quality Management includes the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. This module, therefore, provides a comprehensive coverage of Project Quality Management concepts, and tools and techniques.
Managing Project Human Resources
Human Resources are the most important component of project management. It is people who accomplish the project activities, and it is people for whom the projects are done. This module therefore discusses this important element of project management. It covers how to develop human resource plans and how to acquire, develop and manage human resources on your projects. It also overviews human resource management concepts, such as, recruitment and selection, performance management, and compensation
Managing Project Risks
Management of risk is such an important area in project management that Tim Lister, an American Software Engineer with specialty in software risk management once said that risk management is project management for adults. This module focuses on project risk management and talks about different processes in project risk management along with their inputs, outputs and tools and techniques.
Project Costing and Budgeting
In today’s competitive business environment, project management skills must include a solid understanding of project costing and budgeting. Projects are investments; hence Project Managers need to estimate and evaluate a project’s financial viability. This module covers the basic concepts of cost and budget control in implementing projects. Students will learn tools and techniques for cost control aspects of a project.
Agile Project Management - PMI-ACP
Agile project management has recently drawn attention as a viable technique to delivering projects in an environment where there is uncertainty surrounding the product to be delivered, as well as, the processes to deliver that product. Project managers, therefore, are increasingly embracing agile methodologies and frameworks for managing successful projects.
Fundamentals of Project Management - CAPM
Fundamentals of Project Management, which is a foundation level module in project management, is an overview of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), Seventh Edition and Process Groups: A Practice Guide. It provides an overview of the best practices in professional project management and focuses on ten knowledge areas and five process groups and associated processes, inputs, outputs, and tools and techniques. Additionally, twelve project management principles and eight domains are also discussed.
Project Management Integration
Management of the various aspects of a project, such as, scope, schedule, budget, or risk cannot be looked at in isolation. A change in one area affects the other areas and hence they are all integrated to one another. Project integration management includes the processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups.
Managing Project Requirements and Scope - ECBA, CCBA, and CBAP
Collecting project requirements and defining project scope are one the most challenging areas of project management. According to some sources one of the biggest reasons for project failures is not being able to define project scope properly. Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
Managing Project Schedule
Understanding a project’s schedule requirements and the time-phasing of project tasks is the backbone of effective project management. Project managers need a variety of scheduling tools and techniques to plan today’s complex and fast-moving projects. This module delivers the knowledge you need to create clear project missions and goals, accurately estimate project time, manage project scope, schedule and allocate time-critical resources, and establish feedback systems to ensure project control.
Managing Project Procurement
This module is designed to help participants manage the procurement aspects of projects. Topics covered include planning the procurement process, developing procurement Scope of Works, Request for Proposal (RFP), supplier selection, competitive bidding, price negotiation, teaming arrangements and subcontractor management. The module also covers selecting the proper contract type and explains the strengths and weaknesses of all possible contract approaches.
Introduction to MS Project
It is essential for the students and practitioners of project management to know about project scheduling software and MS project is one of the most widely available and used project management software. In this module, the students will learn about MS project as a tool to develop project schedule and budget. The students will learn how to create a detailed schedule and budget for a project using MS project and track the actual progress of the project.
Managing Project Communication
According to Project Management Institute (PMI), about ninety percent of a project manager’s time is spent communicating to project stakeholders. Therefore, identification of project stakeholders and then tailoring communicating management as per their communication preferences is very important for project’s success. This module, therefore, covers two important knowledge areas under Process Groups: A Practice Guide (a) Project Stakeholder Management and (b) Project Communication.
Managing Project Quality
Quality, in any process or product, is an important concept and project management is no exception. Project Quality Management includes the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. This module, therefore, provides a comprehensive coverage of Project Quality Management concepts, and tools and techniques.
Managing Project Human Resources
Human Resources are the most important component of project management. It is people who accomplish the project activities, and it is people for whom the projects are done. This module therefore discusses this important element of project management. It covers how to develop human resource plans and how to acquire, develop and manage human resources on your projects. It also overviews human resource management concepts, such as, recruitment and selection, performance management, and compensation
Managing Project Risks
Management of risk is such an important area in project management that Tim Lister, an American Software Engineer with specialty in software risk management once said that risk management is project management for adults. This module focuses on project risk management and talks about different processes in project risk management along with their inputs, outputs and tools and techniques.
Project Costing and Budgeting
In today’s competitive business environment, project management skills must include a solid understanding of project costing and budgeting. Projects are investments; hence Project Managers need to estimate and evaluate a project’s financial viability. This module covers the basic concepts of cost and budget control in implementing projects. Students will learn tools and techniques for cost control aspects of a project.
Agile Project Management - PMI-ACP
Agile project management has recently drawn attention as a viable technique to delivering projects in an environment where there is uncertainty surrounding the product to be delivered, as well as, the processes to deliver that product. Project managers, therefore, are increasingly embracing agile methodologies and frameworks for managing successful projects.
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