About this course

Project management is an essential skill-set for many careers and in many contexts in our lives. Introduction to Project Management is an ideal starting point if you need to manage projects at work or at home, while not necessarily being a formally trained project manager. It is also suitable if you are considering undertaking a project in the near future and are seeking to learn and apply essential project management knowledge and skills. 

To deliver a project successfully, it’s important to start by clearly identifying what the project is, and what its outcomes will be. In the course, we will show you practical ways to explore and understand your goals from the outset of your project, and to consider all the factors that may affect its execution. Step by step you will learn how to plan, scope, schedule, cost and manage your project from beginning to end. Since every project relies on the people who are delivering it, the course also enables you to explore how you can effectively communicate, manage people and employ leadership skills to successfully deliver your own project.

In Introduction to Project Management, you will learn practical ways to use project management skills, whether your project is large or small. Join us to explore how you can benefit from using project management techniques in your own projects. 

Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to 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

Course Staff


Frank Schultmann

Professor Frank Schultmann is currently Professor of Complex Project Management and serves as Director of Project Management for the University of Adelaide. In addition he also holds a Professorship of Business Administration at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).


Noel Lindsay

Noel is the Director of the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) and the Academic Director, Singapore Operations, the University of Adelaide, where he is the Professor of Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation.


Anton Jordaan

Dr Anton Jordaan is CEO of the Australian Skills Development Institute and adjunct teaching faculty at The University of Adelaide’s Entrepreneurship Centre for Innovation and Commercialisation (ECIC), and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Project Management Academy at QUT in Brisbane. He holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting, and postgraduate degrees in Accounting, Business Administration, Advanced Business Practice, and a PhD. 


John Sing

Dr John Sing is currently a Company Director and Business Consultant in the areas of project and risk management. After a period of time as a full-time academic, both researching and teaching in the domains of business, finance, project and risk management, John is now involved in consulting and capability building for both public and private sector organisations which are actively seeking to improve on their project management and corporate governance arrangements.


Stella Bachtis

Stella Bachtis is an education design specialist at the Australian Skills Development Institute. Her area of interest is enhancing critical and creative thinking in organisations, and she is currently completing her doctorate in teaching critical and creative thinking skills to educators.  She holds undergraduate and post-graduate qualifications in education.

Prerequisites

None