Course curriculum

  • 1
    MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS
    • 1. Managers in an organization
    • 2. The good manager
    • 3. The different types of managerial roles
    • 4. A manager's main functions
    • 5. Introduction to Planning
    • 6. Creating smart objectives
    • 7. Competitor research
    • 8. Break-even Analysis
    • 9. Budgeting
    • 10. Project management
    • 11. The principles of organization
    • 12. The role of Human Resources
    • 13. Planning HR needs
    • 14. Motivating employees
    • 15. Employee motivation tactics
    • 16. Terminating employee contracts
  • 2
    STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
    • 1. Strategy Course Notes.pdf
    • 2. The role of Strategy
    • 3. Mission, Vision and Values statements
    • 4. The four stages of the industry life cycle model
    • 5. Importance of the industry life cycle model
    • 6. The Introduction stage
    • 7. The Growth stage
    • 8. The Maturity stage
    • 9. The Decline stage
    • 10. Michael Porter's Five Forces model
    • 11. The threat of new entrants
    • 12. The threat of substitute products
    • 13. The intensity of current competition
    • 14. The bargaining power of suppliers
    • 15. The bargaining power of clients
    • 16. Competitive advantage, An Introduction
    • 17. Building a sustainable competitive advantage
    • 18. Resources and capabilities
    • 19. Acquiring a competitive advantage
    • 20. The three main competitive strategies
    • 21. Cost leadership
    • 22. Differentiation
    • 23. Find your niche market
    • 25. An introduction to SWOT analysis
    • 26. Types of growth opportunities
    • 27. Organic growth
    • 28. Inorganic growth
    • 29. Horizontal integration
    • 30. Vertical integration
  • 3
    PROJECT INITIATION AN INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    • 1. What is a Project
    • 2. Why do companies execute projects
    • 3. Prioritization and selection of projects
    • 4. What is a Project Manager
    • 5. What are the skills of a Project Manager
    • 6. Project management History
    • 7. Project management terminology
    • 8. How does a project start and how does it evolve
    • 9. Define the project goals
    • 10. What is involved in a business case
    • 11. What is the project scope
    • 12. What does the feasibility study involve
    • 13. What goes into risk assessment
    • 14. How to create a Project Charter
  • 4
    PROJECT PLANNING
    • 1. What is Planning & Why is it important
    • 2. Why is Planning so critical in Project management
    • 3. What is the cost of Change in projects
    • 4. What to do before you start
    • 5. Project management insights
    • 6. Scope Planning
    • 7. Scope Planning (continued)
    • 8. How to estimate when planning
    • 9. The planning fallacy, optimism bias, illlusion of control
    • 10. Identifying the critical path
    • 11. Using the Gantt chart to plan the project work streams
    • 12. How to build a milestone table and its uses
    • 13. Planning HR
    • 14. Planning expectations management
    • 15. How to control assumptions
    • 16. Planning Risk management
    • 17. Building a Risk log
    • 18. How to deal with and record change requests
  • 5
    PROJECT SCHEDULING & COST
    • 1. How to estimate when planning
    • 2. The planning fallacy, optimism bias, illlusion of control
    • 3. How much to buffer
    • 4. Identifying dependencies
    • 5. Identifying the critical path
    • 6. Using the Gantt chart to plan the project work streams
    • 7. How to build a milestone table and its uses
    • 8. The process of budgeting
    • 9. The process of budgeting (continued)
    • 10. Procurement contract types
    • 11. Procuring non-financial resources
    • 12. Planning HR
    • 13. RACI matrix - assigning roles
    • 14. Quality requirements
  • 6
    PROJECT EXECUTION
    • 1. Introduction to project execution
    • 2. What is involved in a kick-off meeting
    • 3. Tips to handle meetings
    • 4. What is action-owner due date
    • 5. Filling in the project diary
    • 6. How the Project Manager manages tasks
    • 7. How the Project Manager manages the team
    • 8. How to check if a project is on schedule
    • 9. How to see if a project is on budget
    • 10. How to perform quality control
    • 11. How to record and build project report updates
    • 12. How to deal with any issues that occur during execution
  • 7
    PROJECT MONITORING & CLOSING
    • 1. What is monitoring and control
    • 2. Controling in a PM environment
    • 3. How to check if a project is on schedule
    • 4. How to see if a project is on budget
    • 5. How to perform quality control
    • 6. Keeping the risk log updated
    • 7. Dealing with change proposals
    • 8. Why do we close a project
    • 9. How to deal with and record change requests
    • 10. What steps to take to close a project
  • 8
    AGILE PROJECT & SCRUM
    • 1. Waterfall
    • 2. A different kind of project
    • 3. Where Waterfall falls short
    • 4. Introducing Agile
    • 5. Agile project structure
    • 6. Product Development in Agile
    • 7. Introduction to SCRUM
    • 8. SCRUM project structure
    • 9. User Stories
    • 10. EPICs
    • 11. Product Backlog, Releases, MVP
    • 12. Product Owner
    • 13. Development Team
    • 14. SCRUM Master
    • 15. Comparison of Agile vs Waterfall
    • 16. Analysis of Agile vs Waterfall
    • 17. Conclusion