Project Management
Are you new to managing a work assignment or participating on a project team? Understanding basic project management principles and practices will help guide you towards organizing both yourself and your team towards delivering a project on time and within budget. Effective project management ensures a project is defined, kept within scope by managing change and proactively dealing with issues, and creating a manageable, achievable plan of action.
Our project management courses teach you the fundamentals of project management through a hands-on approach. You'll learn about key project management principles and tools by applying them to a real world project scenario throughout each course.
Once you've mastered the fundamentals, you may also be interested in our Microsoft Project course.
Custom training is also available - email training@ualberta.ca for details.
Courses
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This course will introduce you to project management, explain why projects tend to fail and give you techniques to combat these causes. Tools to effectively define and plan a project, combined with practical examples on setting clear goals and objectives to organize, schedule and budget will help ensure that you are ready to manage a project.
Course Details
Prerequisites:
- None
Duration: 2 days
Multiple course sections are open to registration. Click the link below to view all available dates.
Registering at least one week before the deadline is recommended as this class may fill up or be cancelled due to low enrollment.
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Prerequisites:
- Project Management Principles and Practices Level 1
Duration: 2 days
Multiple course sections are open to registration. Click the link below to view all available dates.
Registering at least one week before the deadline is recommended as this class may fill up or be cancelled due to low enrollment.
View Upcoming ClassesMicrosoft Project is a powerful project management tool that helps you stay on top of even the most complex endeavors. In our introductory course, you'll learn the basics of Project, including how to create a new project, build and manage a task list and create dependencies, assign resources, and track progress and costs.
Course Details
Prerequisites:
- Basic computer skills and knowledge of Windows
- Creative Cloud Introduction or equivalent knowledge/experience
Duration: 2 days
Multiple course sections are open to registration. Click the link below to view all available dates.
Registering at least one week before the deadline is recommended as this class may fill up or be cancelled due to low enrollment.
View Upcoming ClassesProject Level 2 builds on the concepts covered in Level 1. You'll learn how to customize tables, views and reports, work with templates, track and analyze project data, work with multiple projects and more.
Course Details
Prerequisites:
- Project Level 1 or equivalent knowledge/experience
Duration: 2 days
Multiple course sections are open to registration. Click the link below to view all available dates.
Registering at least one week before the deadline is recommended as this class may fill up or be cancelled due to low enrollment.
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