# Project Management Fundamentals

> Learn to plan, run and close projects on time and on budget with practical tools you can use immediately.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Project & Programme Management
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/project-management/project-management-fundamentals
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=project-management-fundamentals

## Overview

Many professionals manage projects without formal training. This course gives them a complete, practical method from initiation to closure: defining scope, building schedules and budgets, managing risk and stakeholders, and reporting progress. Participants apply each tool to a project from their own workplace.

## Who should attend

- New and accidental project managers
- Team leaders and coordinators
- Officers running donor or capital projects
- Anyone joining a project team

## Learning outcomes

- Define project scope and objectives clearly
- Build realistic schedules and budgets
- Identify and manage project risks
- Engage stakeholders and report progress
- Close projects and capture lessons learned

## Course outline

### Day 1: Starting the project

- What makes a project
- Project charter
- Stakeholder mapping
- Defining success

### Day 2: Scope and schedule

- Work breakdown structure
- Estimating
- Gantt charts and critical path
- Milestones

### Day 3: Cost and risk

- Budgeting
- Risk register
- Responses and contingency
- Procurement basics

### Day 4: Running the project

- Team management
- Status reporting
- Issue and change control
- Quality checks

### Day 5: Closing and improving

- Handover
- Lessons learned
- Benefits review
- Personal action plan