PEOPLE ORIENTED PROJECT MANAGEMENT
A workplace project rarely depends on just one person. The projects we work on often involve stakeholders of all kinds: clients, co-workers, management, business partners, investors, and/or end users. Project success relies on the management of the project AND understanding the needs and roles of people involved. This course examines the foundational concepts of project management with an emphasis on communication best practices and people skills that will boost trust, morale, and commitment by the humans that make projects happen....successfully.

What to expect:
- Course is self-taught and primarily asynchronous.
- Self-guided weekly videos and reading materials will lead participants through the Project Management process and address common human factors involved in projects.
- Small teams will be put together to and tasked with "Weekly Teamwork Assignments".

Weekly Teamwork Assignment:
- Your team’s job is to discuss the problem presented, collectively decide on the solution and present your people-oriented solution to the group discussion in the workshop platform. (See "Sample Weekly Teamwork Assignment" document for an example.)
- Solutions should be detailed, include assumptions that took place for this solution to be viable, rate the risk level of the solution (1 being low risk and 5 being high) and discuss risk of the solution (including possible unintended outcomes).
- Solutions should lean into content from the course and use references if applicable.
- Solutions will be shared in paragraph form, include the names of each project team member, and be a minimum of 750 words.
- Your team will work together on this solution as a project team. This includes assigning a project manager (this person should change weekly), identifying your meeting times, assigning roles, working together on the solution, finalizing the team’s solution, and posting it by the deadline.

All workshop participants are encouraged to review other teams' solutions. All workshop participants are invited to join a weekly Zoom meeting to discuss their own solutions, challenges they had getting to it with their team, review and discuss other group’s solutions.

To earn certification, workshop participants are required to:
- Actively participate in the 5 Weekly Teamwork Assignments
- Groups are responsible to fairly self-report individual team members active participation each week.
- Participate in 3 of 5 Video sessions

See "Sample Weekly Teamwork Assignment" document for an example.

Pre-Course:
- Kick-Off Meeting (LIVE)

Week 1: Project Management Topic 1
- Asynchronous Reading/Viewing Materials
- Finalize Project Teams
- Receive your team's Weekly Teamwork Assignment, complete it as a team and submit the response into platform.
- Week 1 Live Discussion

Week 2: Project Management Topic 2
- Asynchronous Reading/Viewing Materials
- Receive your team's Weekly Teamwork Assignment, complete it as a team and submit the response into platform.
- Week 2 Live Discussion

Week 3: Project Management Topic 3
- Asynchronous Reading/Viewing Materials
- Receive your team's Weekly Teamwork Assignment, complete it as a team and submit the response into platform.
- Week 3 Live Discussion

Week 4: Project Management Topic 4
- Asynchronous Reading/Viewing Materials
- Receive your team's Weekly Teamwork Assignment, complete it as a team and submit the response into platform.
- Week 4 Live Discussion

Week 5:
- Asynchronous Reading/Viewing Materials
- Post-Mortem (Individual submitted responses into platform)