Course Details

This course guides students through fundamental project management concepts and behavioral skills needed to success-fully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations. Successful project managers skillfully manage their resources, schedules, risks, and scope to produce a desired outcome. In this course, students explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through case studies and class exercises. The course may be taken for credit at the Harvard Extension School, but does not offer credits towards outside certification. Course Purpose This course focuses on project management methodology that will allow you to initiate and manage projects efficiently and effectively. You will learn key project management skills and strategies, and you will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge through assignments. Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Understand project management design, development, and deployment.
• Use project management tools, techniques, and skills.
• Employ strategies to address the ubiquitous issue of resistance to change.
• Align critical resources for effective project implementation.
• Understand the implications, challenges, and opportunities of organizational dynamics in project management.
• Identify and use key performance metrics for project success.
• Understand how to manage project cost, quality, and delivery.
• Engage and lead effective project management teams in your organization.
• Impart project management knowledge, tools, and processes to your colleagues.
• Recognize and mitigate the early seeds of failure in the project life cycle.