Project delivery fundamentals for coordinators
A practical first course for people who coordinate work on a project for the first time: what a project is and how it differs from business-as-usual, why a finite piece of work needs a defined start and close, how to help start a project with a reason and a simple plan, how to track risk, issues and change, and how to hand over and close in a controlled way. Five modules, each with a worked example, and a 10-question final quiz. Based on cited public pages from APM, PMI, ISO and the UK Government Functional Standard GovS 002. Not an accredited qualification and not exam preparation for CAPM, PMP or PRINCE2.
What you will learn
- Explain and apply: Distinguish a project from business-as-usual, using APM’s public definition of a unique, transient endeavour with planned objectives.
- Explain and apply: Explain why formal project management exists: to initiate, plan and control a finite set of tasks that should produce a defined end product or benefit.
- Explain and apply: Help start a project with a stated reason, captured requirements and a simple justification before work spreads.
- Explain and apply: Support planning and control for schedule, cost and quality, including risk, issues, change and communication, in predictive, adaptive or hybrid approaches.
- Explain and apply: Track progress against the plan and close the project in a controlled way, including handover of the end product.
modules
- What a project is — and what it is not
- Why formal project management exists
- Starting well: reason, requirements and agreement
- Planning and control: time, cost, quality, risk and change
- Tracking progress and closing in a controlled way
Practical education only. It is not a licensed method, not legal or delivery advice, and not an accredited qualification. Official pages and standards are summarised from public descriptions as read on the access date; the full text of ISO standards is not reproduced here. Apply your organisation’s method and the rules of the jurisdictions you work in. Figures and names in worked examples are illustrative.