Part 1: Project basics
Key messages
You have done a lot of listening, learning and self-assessment. These are all very important, but try now to step back from the first four elearning modules and think about the key messages that resonated most powerfully with you.
 
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What were the real 'Aha!' moments that made you think about project management in a new light?
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Or, in your experience, what are the really important things to get right in project management?
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Use My notes to brainstorm half a dozen of these key messages without going back to the modules.
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What others have thought
You can read the key messages recorded by others who have studied project management.
- Deliverables = client requirements. Never start a project without being clear about its objectives.
- Always have the deliverables foremost in your mind and work backwards from them; anything you spend time on in connection with a project must directly contribute to producing the deliverable results that the 'client' expects.
- There are really only three things to get right in a project:
- on budget
- on time
- deliverables to conform to requirements.
- A project is basically a series of connected sub-projects that need to be connected using a Gantt chart or similar.
- The key skill in project management is the ability to visualise, list and connect all the different activities that will be necessary to achieve a project's milestones and final deliverable.
- You always need to know what is going on in your project.
- Managing resources on a project, whether skill, equipment or materials, is as much about not wasting them as about securing a sufficient amount.
- Getting all the right resources available at the right time is one of the hardest matters to get right in project management.
If any of these ideas are helpful, use the cut and paste facility to add them to the ones you have written in My notes. Now use My forum to share your key messages with others taking this course
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