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The lessons of Project Management Essentials (M2) are adapted from an openly licensed textbook. Each adapted lesson ends with this attribution:
This lesson is adapted from Project Management – 2nd Edition by Adrienne Watt (BCcampus), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Access the original for free at opentextbc.ca/projectmanagement. Changes: condensed and rewritten for South African learners, with new examples and activities.
Lessons in this course:
- What a project is: the project life cycle
- Initiating: scope, stakeholders and the project charter
- Planning: work breakdown, schedules (Gantt charts) and budgets
- Managing risk
- Leading the project team and communicating progress
- Monitoring, reporting and change control
- Closing a project and capturing lessons learned
- Agile basics and free tools (Trello, Microsoft Planner, spreadsheets)
- Case study: planning a community event from brief to close-out
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