Every successful project begins with a solid plan. Building Your Project Management Foundation equips you with the essential skills to confidently plan, organize, and initiate projects, whether you are managing academic assignments, workplace initiatives, or client engagements. You will learn the core principles of project management, including defining project scope, setting SMART objectives, creating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), developing project schedules, and understanding the critical relationship between time, scope, cost, and stakeholder expectations. Through practical examples and guided exercises, you will build real project deliverables using project management tools such as Google Sheets, Lucidchart, and Trello.

Introduction to Project Management

What you'll learn
Create project charters, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and stakeholder communication plans for real project management work.
Understand the project life cycle stages and how each one shapes project management decisions.
Use project management tools such as Lucidchart and Google Sheets to build WBS diagrams, Gantt charts, and project trackers.
Build a sample project plan from scratch through guided, hands-on project management labs.
Skills you'll gain
- Project Estimation
- Milestones (Project Management)
- Project Design
- Project Controls
- Business Operations
- Project Risk Management
- Project Management
- Business Administration
- Project Management Life Cycle
- Project Planning
- Business
- Project Coordination
- Business Planning
- Planning
- Project Documentation
- Project Implementation
- Project Scoping
- Project Schedules
- Business Management
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August 2026
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