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Free Project Management Fundamentals for IT Professionals
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Free Project Management Fundamentals for IT Professionals

You will get motivation with confidence about Project Management area and might want to become a Project Manager
Created byMichael Nasonov
Last updated 11/2025
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What you'll learn

  • You will learn well-structured Project Management Fundamentals
  • You will learn who is a Project Manager and what are the work performance responsibilities
  • You will learn desired specific skills set needed by Project Manager in IT Industry
  • You will learn Software Development Project Life Cycle
  • You will learn IT Industry Project Management typical processes
  • You will look at each Project Management processe in detail
  • You will receive realistic answers for your questions about Project Manager position
  • Upon course completions, you will see "The Whole Picture" all about Project Manager occupation and job duties

Course content

4 sections • 33 lectures • 1h 29m total length

  • Greetings from Instructor0:49
  • Welcome to Project Management1:14

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  • Information Technology Definition1:42
  • Information Technology Project Types2:14
  • Why Projects are created ?1:00

    Explore why projects are created to drive profit, enhance brand and meet legal requirements, covering initiation, authorization, design, development, testing, and delivery.

  • Typical IT Project Road Map1:05
  • Project Initiation Categories and Reasons1:29

    Explore four project initiation categories—stakeholders' requests, market demand, technological need, and legal requirements—and how they trigger new projects, improvements, or substitutions.

  • Project Introduction 1011:16

    Define a project as temporary and unique, initiated to deliver deliverables and value, and drive change. Explore why projects start, from regulatory and stakeholder needs to outcomes of poor management.

  • Project Foundation Checklist1:18
  • Portfolios vs Programs and Project Governance0:33
  • Projects add Business Value1:17
  • IT Project major Key Players roles and responsibilities2:27

    Examine IT project key players, the project manager, business analyst, product developer, and quality assurance, along with sponsors, steering committees, and the PMO, detailing roles, responsibilities, stakeholder satisfaction and metrics.

  • Project Management and Manager1:51
  • IT Project Delivery Team Members2:23

    Meet typical IT project delivery team members, including SMEs, developers, database and system administrators, QA and acceptance analysts, team leads, scrum masters, and end-to-end testers across on-premises and cloud environments.

  • Project Manager major responsibilities0:57
  • Project Manager special skills set for IT Industry9:49

    Develop IT project leadership by applying local business knowledge, budgeting with accounting basics, soft skills, basic marketing, and networking awareness, including OSI and cloud providers Azure, AWS, GCP.

  • Software Development Project Life Cycle3:04
  • Software Product Development Life Cycles4:00

Requirements

  • No prerequisites required - you will learn all you might need for Project Management
  • All you need is your positive attitude, some spare time and willingness to learn

Description

Please read below corresponding information, before enrolling into this course.

This course has been designed to provide a student with maximum organized and structured information within two hours time limit, fulfill a complete understanding about all potential Project Manager occupation job related duties with knowledge processes and requires a capacity level to absorb an informational volume.


You will be provided with necessary for beginner information, regarding  Project Management and related occupational applicable processes roadmap.

Please note, that original intended audience are people working within IT Industry, so specific topics are included in addition to general Project Management.

At the end of the course, I will answer some standard occupation related questions, based on my personal subjective career experience, to encourage and motivate you.


  • A project manager is a professional, who is l responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing the completion of a project.

  • A project manager leads a team of professionals to achieve project goals within specified constraints: scope, timeline schedule and cost budget.

  • Project managers continuously communicate with stakeholders to ensure that project's deliverables are met and accepted by end-user customer.


Project management involves a systematic organized approach to ensure projects are completed successfully, within time limit, assigned budget and agreed upon quality.


A Project Manager role is not strictly an IT job unless a Project Manager chooses to specialize in the information technology industry.

Project Manager for other industries are expected to have some knowledge about IT and key business software, but they're not typically classified as IT employees.

Who this course is for:

  • Any person, who wants to learn about Project Management and Project Manager occupation
  • Any beginner or already employed person, who wants to be promoted to Project Manager position

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