Duration of the online course: 31 hours and 38 minutes
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Managing projects is no longer a specialist task reserved for a separate team. In a fast-paced business environment, managers are expected to turn ideas into measurable results, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, and make confident decisions under constraints of time, budget, and shifting priorities. This free online course is designed to help you build a clear, manager-friendly project management foundation that you can apply immediately in day-to-day work.
You will strengthen the way you define success beyond simple deadlines and costs by understanding how value, quality, expectations, and business outcomes shape whether a project is truly successful. You will also learn how organizational structures influence authority, collaboration, and communication, so you can choose the right approach to manage people and resources effectively. The course clarifies how project managers and a Project Management Office operate, what each is responsible for, and how governance can support delivery without slowing momentum.
A key focus is making better decisions before work begins. You will gain a practical understanding of project types and life cycles, and how selection methods help organizations invest in the right initiatives. You will explore decision frameworks used in real business settings, including multi-criteria approaches, and learn how market and demand thinking supports smarter prioritization. By connecting these decisions to financial reasoning, you will be able to interpret concepts such as payback and capital budgeting perspectives, giving you a stronger voice in leadership discussions.
Finally, you will improve how you anticipate uncertainty. You will develop a risk-aware mindset, learn how to scan external forces that affect delivery, and understand the stages of risk management so you can move from reactive firefighting to structured control. Throughout the course, short checks for understanding help reinforce the concepts and prepare you to apply them in meetings, planning sessions, and stakeholder conversations. Whether you want to improve performance in your current role or add a recognized skill set for career growth, you will leave with a practical, business-oriented view of project management.
Video class: Introduction of Project Management
31m
Exercise: What is the primary reason for the significance of project management in today's fast-paced world?
Video class: Project Success
41m
Exercise: What is a key additional criterion for project success beyond the Iron Triangle?
Video class: Types of Structure Organizations
31m
Exercise: What are the three main factors on which the success of a project depends?
Video class: Project Management Office
31m
Exercise: What is the primary function of a Project Management Office (PMO)?
Video class: Stakeholders Management
32m
Exercise: What are the primary responsibilities of a Project Manager versus a PMO?
Video class: Types of Projects and Project Life Cycle
32m
Exercise: What is a key characteristic of a Green Field Project?
Video class: Project Life Cycle Phases
31m
Exercise: What is an important consideration that needs to be evaluated during the project selection phase in project management?
Video class: Methods of Project Selection- I
33m
Exercise: What is a key limitation of the BCG Matrix?
Video class: Methods of Project Selection- II
32m
Exercise: What is the primary purpose of a space diagram in project selection?
Video class: Methods of Project Selection (MCDM -I)
32m
Exercise: What is the primary focus of goal programming as an extension of linear programming?
Video class: Methods of Project Selection (MCDM-II)
30m
Exercise: What is the most important criterion while selecting a project in AHP?
Video class: Methods of Project Selection (MCDM-III)
30m
Exercise: Which criterion was assigned the highest importance in the AHP method example?
Video class: Market and Demand Analysis - I
30m
Exercise: Which of the following is NOT a method of demand forecasting mentioned in the session?
Video class: Market and Demand Analysis - II
30m
Exercise: What is the smoothing constant alpha used for in exponentially smoothing method?
Video class: Financial Analysis
31m
Exercise: Which Project Has a Better Payback Period?
Video class: Capital Budgeting Techniques - I
30m
Exercise: Which of the following capital budgeting techniques does not take into account the time value of money?
Video class: Capital Budgeting Techniques - II
29m
Exercise: What is the primary advantage of the NPV method over the IRR method in capital budgeting?
Video class: Financing of Projects
31m
Exercise: What is the main difference between equity funds and debt funds in financing projects?
Video class: Risk Management - I
30m
Exercise: In the context of risk management in project management, what does PESTLE analysis stand for?
Video class: Risk Management - II
30m
Exercise: What are the four stages of risk management?
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Course comments: Project Management for managers
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