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Professional Certificate in
Fundamentals of Project Management
AdelaideX

What you will learn

  • Core knowledge and applied skills in project management.
  • Essential communication skills to help you manage a project.
  • An understanding of why today’s projects are more complex.
  • How the risk management process works as part of a compliance framework and how to use the framework to identify, assess and analyse risks in business.
  • Design and integration strategies for reporting and communicating risks to various stakeholders.

The Fundamentals of Project Management Professional Certificate introduces the fundamental principles for you to manage a successful project – from small, do-it-yourself projects, to large-scale projects – across a range of industries and sectors.

Throughout your learning journey, you will apply project management methodologies to the key characteristics of a project life cycle. You will learn about the application of core principles through carefully considered scenarios with broad-ranging contexts. To get a deeper insight into the scope of project management, you’ll share your experience and knowledge with other learners, learning from them as you go.

Upon completion of the first course, you’ll then develop your knowledge, understanding and skills in project risk management. You will learn how to integrate the risk management process into your own business context by identifying, assessing and analysing risk. You will complete your learning journey by developing a strategy for risk response, and how to monitor and review risk.

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2 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
3 months
2 - 3 hours per week
Discounted price: $358.20
Pre-discounted price: $398USD
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Courses in this program

  1. AdelaideX's Fundamentals of Project Management Professional Certificate

  2. 2–3 hours per week, for 6 weeks

    Learn the principles of project management and apply them in your own work and life.

  3. 2–3 hours per week, for 5 weeks

    Learn how to manage risk in your organization by using the best processes and procedures.

    • Project management capabilities are highly sought after across a wide range of industries.
    • The average Project Manager salary is AU$99,340 (Source: Payscale).
    • Exciting career pathways include: Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Operations Manager, General Manager, Strategic Project Management, Chief Executive Officer (Source: Payscale).

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Discounted price: $358.20
Pre-discounted price: $398USD
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