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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Project Management Principles and Practices Level 1

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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Project Management Principles and Practices Level 2
Now that a plan has been created, it is time to put it into action! This course builds on skills, techniques and tools presented in Part 1. Focusing on the execution and completion of a project, it explores fundamentals that must be in place for a project to operate effectively and smoothly such as communication, reporting, work authorization and change management. Topics such as ensuring the project is kept on track by monitoring and controlling the correct level information, effective procurement of resources, ensuring quality is built into the solution and proper project close-out activities are explored. Combined with understanding the skills needed to be an effective, responsible leader will result in the achieving our goal as a project manager - delivering the right solution, on-time and within budget.

Course Details

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.

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Project Level 1

Microsoft 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.

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Project Level 2

Project 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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Contact Us

Technology Training Centre

B-11 Cameron Library
780.492.1397
training@ualberta.ca

Cancellation Policy

Written or on-line cancellation must be received 10 business days prior to the course start date. Registration fees for cancellations less than 10 business days before the course will not be refunded.

Cancellation by the Technology Training Centre

The Technology Training Centre reserves the right to cancel open-enrollment classes at any time. All efforts will be made to give the course registrants 5 business days' notice of cancellation. At the time of cancellation, registrants have the option of being moved to another date, a different course of equal value or be refunded for the course fee. The Technology Training Centre will not be responsible for any travel expenses incurred.