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Project Management Fast Start Program: From Plan to Delivery

Master the essential tools, techniques, and control loops to keep your projects on track and within scope.

Created byMike Claytonworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
BeginnerUpdated Oct 20, 2026

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleDefine project scope and goals with precision to prevent scope creep
  • check_circleApply the monitor and control loop to maintain project rhythm and performance
  • check_circleAnalyze stakeholder attitudes and influence to develop effective engagement strategies
  • check_circleConstruct risk registers and apply generic risk management strategies
  • check_circleUtilize planning tools like Gantt charts and work breakdown structures to organize project tasks

About This Course

Accelerate your way to Project Management success.

This course provides a comprehensive framework for managing projects through their entire lifecycle, from initial definition and goal setting to final closure.

It covers the core components of project planning, including scope management, work breakdown structures, and milestone scheduling, while emphasizing the importance of the monitor and control loop during delivery.

Participants will learn how to effectively engage stakeholders, manage risks using systematic analysis and registers, and utilize key tools like Gantt charts and RACI matrices to maintain project control.

The material focuses on balancing the triple constraint of time, cost, and quality to ensure successful project outcomes.

Topics Covered:

  • Project lifecycle stages and boundaries
  • Triple constraint and scope management
  • Work breakdown structures and milestone planning
  • Stakeholder engagement and triage strategies
  • Risk identification, analysis, and mitigation
  • Monitor and control loops
  • Reporting cycles and project documentation
  • Resource management and RACI charts

Buyer’s Guide

This is the ideal package if you are committed to delivering one or more small projects. Get started with all the basics.

Course Content

5 activities • 25 videos • duration: 2h 25m

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Introducing Project Management and Defining your Project7 videos • 42 min
  • videocamThe Definition of 'Project'
    Duration 3:00
  • videocamThe Project Lifecycle
    Duration 5:51
  • videocamWhy Have Project Stages?
    Duration 7:15
  • videocamGoals and Objectives
    Duration 3:22
  • videocamThe Triple Constraint: Time, Cost, Quality
    Duration 7:39
  • videocamUnderstanding Project Scope
    Duration 7:57
  • videocamManaging Scope Creep
    Duration 7:30
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Project People: Stakeholders and Team-members4 videos • 23 min
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Planning Success: Project Planning Tools6 videos • 35 min
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Shift Happens! Dealing with Project Risks5 videos • 24 min
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Making it Happen: Delivering and Finishing Your Project3 videos • 19 min

Your Instructor

Mike Clayton

Business Trainer, Author and Speaker

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Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training. Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda. Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of the University of Manchester.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

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