The Aspiring Project Manager

The Aspiring Project Manager is a FOREVER-FREE course that supports current Higher Education, Student Affairs, and non-profit professionals in learning project management principles, fundamentals, and basics.

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Course Curriculum

The Aspiring Project Manager covers 60+ lessons over 8 modules (yes, really!), with tons of real-world examples to map to your experience. We’re looking at three major areas:

The Project Life Cycle

The Project Life Cycle is the heart of the course — we’ve structured the entire curriculum around it! You’ll know the stages like the back of your hand by the end. More importantly, you’ll start to see your career in them.

Stakeholders

Any good project manager understands stakeholders and stakeholder analysis deeply — so, of course, by the end, so will you.

Scope

How does a project manager’s role intersect with project scope? How does stewardship intersect with project management as a field? Asked… and answered.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Your access is life-of-the-program, which means that as long as the Aspiring Project Manager exists, you have access to all course content and community resources. If we were to ever stop running the program, we would provide a year's worth of notice. Right now, we have no plans to stop running the program.

  • Yes! This program will support your development as a professional project manager, regardless of what your career plans are.

  • The lessons are delivered via audio files set to slideshows (meaning that you can listen at your computer on the go). You can also download the accompanying slides — including transcripts! Resources (e.g. worksheets, templates, etc) are made available as copyable Google docs.

  • No. This program is NOT designed as a credentialing course -- though of course everything you learn throughout it will be applicable to your eventually pursuing a PM credential, if you choose to go that route. The APM is designed to provide an understanding of project management principles and best practices, and how to apply them as a HESA professional.

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