Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is for people working on and leading projects in their work but who may not see themselves as professional project managers. It also offers the opportunity for people to explore project management as a career.

Topics Covered

• The skills a project manager needs to master
• Demands placed on a project manager
• Identifying and evaluating stakeholders
• Lines of communication
• Ethics in projects
• Managing in situations of volatility and uncertainty
• Managing complexity and ambiguity
• Linear, iterative and hybrid project lifecycles
• Selecting the right approach
• Developing project agility
• Forming and developing project teams
• Launching projects
• Conditions for success
• The power of social, identity and cognitive diversity
• Developing and safeguarding project teams
• Managing quality in a project
• The costs of quality
• Preparing a quality plan
• Managing resources
• Looking at the critical chain
• Dealing with conflict