Learning Outcomes

Introduction to Training Needs Analysis

Collecting and Analyzing Data

Evaluation and Stakeholder Engagement

Implementation and Continuous Improvement

Legal and Ethical Considerations

Lesson Summary

In this module, you will learn how to gather information, assess the data and identify training needs and requirements in your organisation. The lessons then guide you through the best methods and processes to generate and implement effective and successful training and non-training solutions.

Strategic Training Needs Analysis Mastery - Course Assessment

Enhance organizational training programs by learning strategic training needs analysis with this free online course.

Strategic Training Needs Analysis Mastery

Consistent learning and training are crucial in boosting employee performance and enhancing career prospects. This course explores the pre-training process of Training Needs Analysis (TNA). From meticulous data collection to stakeholder engagement and legal compliance, learn some useful insights to identify training gaps. Propel your career forward with the gold standard in training excellence. Enroll now and train with strategic precision.

Modern Technical Project Management

Living and Geometric Order

Project Life Cycle and Living Order

Roles of a Project Manager

Lean - Eliminating Waste in Living Order

Agile: Fast Feedback in Living Order

Practical Tips

Learn more about the basic principles and practices involved in technical project management, geometric and living order, and an introduction to Lean and Agile software development.

Strategy in Technical Project Management

Lean and Strategy

Portfolio Management - Aligning Projects with Strategy

Terminating Projects

Learn more about strategies to adopt for effective project execution and portfolio management in the context of technical project management.

Project Initiation and the Project Life Cycle

Project Initiation

Defining Project Success

The Project Charter

Managing Project Scope

Project Context

Learn more about defining the project scope and structure, project success, and project initiation.

The Role of Procurement in Supply Chain Management

Enterprise to Project Procurement

Procurement Relationships

Managing Procurement Waste

Value over Price

From RFP to Contract

Procurement - Domains and Approaches

Forms of Procurement

Communication 101

Learn more about procurement processes in technical project management from procurement relationships, procurement waste, supply chain management, and more.

Teams in a Dynamic World

Behaviors that Build Trust

Team Motivators and Demotivators

Managing Teams and Transitions

Virtual Teams

Core Considerations of Leadership

Learn more about leadership in technical project management from team formation, team management, motivators and demotivators, and more.

A New Planning Approach

The Geometric Order Approach: Push Planning

The Living Order Approach: Pull Planning

Push Planning and Pull Planning

Sustainability and Contingency Plans

Learn more about project planning from the geometric and living order approaches, push and pull planning, sustainability, and contingency plans in this module.

From Planning to Scheduling

Geometric and Living Order - Scheduling Methods

Push - The Critical Path Method (CPM)

Pull: Post-Its, Last Planner, and Agile

Learn more about project scheduling in technical project management.

Diploma in Project Management in Practice - First Assessment

You must score 80% or more to pass this assessment.

Risks, Threats, and Issues

Risk Management and Project Success

Risk Reporting

Contingency Planning and Probabilistic Risk Modeling

Ethics and Risk Management

Learn more about managing project risk in technical project management from this module.

Managing Scope for Success

Understanding Budgets and Costs

Target-Value Design

Learn more about managing the value, costs and budgets of projects in technical project management from this module.

Managing Resources in Living Order

Geometric Order Resource Optimization Techniques

Estimating Resource Capacity in Agile

Externalities and the Future

Learn more about managing limited resources in technical project management from this module.

Monitoring for Active Control

Information Overload and Project Dashboards

Informed Intuition

The Illusion of Linearity

Learn more about project monitoring, analytics, and control in technical project management from this module.

Getting the Fundamentals Right

Auditing: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Correcting Course or Shutting Down

Closing out a Project

Learn more about improving project performance using project reviews from this module.

Negotiation 101

Information-Based Bargaining, Cultures, and Emotions

Negotiation - Ethics and Dispute Resolution

Learn more about negotiation as a critical project management skill in technical project management from this module.

Developing Yourself and Your Organization

Project Management Maturity

Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

Sustainability - Thick or Thin?

Personal Project Management Maturity

Learn more about personal and organizational project management growth in technical project management from this module.

Reassess and Plan for the Future

Event-Driven and Intention-Driven Project Management

Creating a Professional Development Plan

The Future of Technical Project Management

Learn about putting all the pieces together in technical project management from this module.

Diploma in Project Management in Practice - Second Assessment

Diploma in Project Management in Practice - Assessment

Improve your project management skills for managing complex technical projects with this free online course.

Diploma in Project Management in Practice

This online technical project management course will teach you about practical project management. It covers the fundamental principles and practices in project management including basic concepts such as project selection, initiation and procurement. You will study leadership, planning, scheduling, risks, and costs and budgets. You will also learn about resource allocation, monitoring, and control needed to manage complex technical projects.

The Information System

Elements in the Study of Information Systems

In this module you will learn about business processes, what an information system is, the elements in the study of information systems, and about the terms “system” and “subsystem”.

Business Process

Logical Components of a Business Process

Output Flow and Users

In this module you will learn about the logical components of a business process, what a business process is, and its components, the “Business Process” model, the system output flow and users.

Management Uses of Information

Overall Information Quality

In this module you will learn about management uses of information, the difference between data and information, and the qualities of information.

Physical Data Flow Diagrams

Logical Data Flow Diagrams

Learn about what a Data Flow Diagram (DFD) is, the differences between a logical and physical DFD, and the terms “balanced” and “top-down partitioning”.

What is a System Flowchart?

Common Systems Flowcharting Routines

System Flowcharting Guidelines

Learn more Reading System Flowcharts, what is a system flowchart is, and the system flowchart symbols.

Entity-Relationship Diagrams

Learn more about reading entity-relationship diagrams, what an entity-relationship diagram is, and the different relationships among these entities.

Management Decision Making

Business Intelligence Systems, OLAP, and Group Support Systems

Artificial Intelligence

Learn about processes involved in decision making along with  some of the information tools designed to help decision makers, the function of Neural Networks and the four levels of expertise that can be applied to unstructured decisions.

Gathering and Storing Knowledge

Creating A Knowledge Culture

Learn about the process known as Knowledge Management, what is meant by “groupware systems”, and the two reasons that knowledge is often slow to enter such systems.

Diploma In Business Process Management - First Assessment

System Development and Phases, Steps, Purposes and Tasks

Controlling the Process

Business Process Engineering

Learn about Systems Development, systems development life cycle (SDLC), the different meanings of SDLC, and the key points of ISO-9000-3 and Capability Maturity Model.

Triggering System Development, Definition, Goals and Gathering Facts

Devise the Project Plan

Learn more about a system survey and its goals, the aspects of feasibility and the need for obtaining approvals.

Definitions and Goals

Define Logical Specifications and Design Alternative Physical Systems

Complete and Package the Systems Analysis Documentation

Learn more about the term “Systems Analysis", how systems analysis can become structured, the goals of system analysis, and the studies carried out in systems analysis.

Systems Selection

Hardware and Software Acquisition Alternatives

Learn more about systems selection, the goals of systems selection, the systems implementation phase, the systems operation phase and its two steps, the development process, systems maintenance and the process of choosing computer software and hardware.

Systems Design - Learning Outcome

Prepare Requests for Proposal, and Data & Criteria

Introduction to Systems Design

Intermediate Steps

In this module learn more about the term “request for proposal”, the different steps involved in the process of evaluating the vendor proposals, and the three objectives of the evaluation team. Along with the concept of system design and the steps involved.

Introduction to Systems Implementation

Testing and Obtaining Approvals

The Post-Implementation Review & System Maintenance

Learn about systems implementation, the systems implementation goals, and the implementation approaches that can be taken to install the new or modified system.Along with learning about “system maintenance", the periodic examination of the system by organisations, the different types of periodic examination, the post-implementation review, and the post-implementation review goals.

Diploma In Business Process Management - Second Assessment

Diploma In Business Process Management - Final Assessment

Learn more about business process management, systems analysis and design, and their implementation with this course.

Diploma in Business Process Management

This free online Diploma in Business Process Management course will explain business intelligence and knowledge management systems, systems analysis, systems design, and systems implementation. Major advances in technology have resulted in the widespread implementation of information system into businesses and organizations. With this course, you will learn how to design, test, and implement information systems for a business process.

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