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Hocbigg - Project Management |
Path to a free self-taught education in Project Management! |
The Project Management curriculum is a complete education in Project Management using online materials.
This repository is organized into three main components:
- Core Curriculum (this page): the foundational knowledge of the field;
- Advanced Topics: focused study in specific areas;
- Projects: support learning through practical application throughout the curriculum.
Process: Learners may work through the curriculum independently or collaboratively, and either sequentially or selectively.
- For simplicity, courses in the Core Curriculum are ordered according to their prerequisites.
- The Core Curriculum provides a shared foundation and is intended to be completed in full.
- Advanced Topics are optional; learners are encouraged to select one area of focus and complete all courses within that topic.
Practical work is integrated through the Projects section and may be undertaken alongside coursework.
Note: When there are courses or books that don't fit into the curriculum but are otherwise of high quality, they belong in extras/courses, extras/readings.
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Other / Slack / Mastodon / etc (if relevant):
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You can also interact through GitHub issues. If there is a problem with a course, or a change needs to be made to the curriculum, this is the place to start the conversation. Read more here.
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Join our Discord server (for discussions around this and other curricula):
- Foundations of Project Management
- Project Initiation & Definition
- Project Planning & Baselines
- Risk, Quality, and Procurement
- Execution, Monitoring & Control
- Project Closure & Organizational Learning
- Human & Communication Dimensions
| Subject | Resource |
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| What Is a Project? + Project Management Principles | PMI Kickoff – Project Management Fundamentals (free) + PMBOK Guide – Seventh Edition overview (PMI member free PDF) |
| Project Roles, Constraints, Success Criteria & Lifecycle | PMBOK Guide – Principles & Project Lifecycle |
| Introduction to Predictive, Agile, and Hybrid Approaches | Google Project Management Certificate – Foundations (free to audit on Coursera) |
| Subject | Resource |
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| Business Case, Project Selection & Charter | PMBOK Guide – Project Initiation & Business Case |
| Stakeholder Identification & Analysis | PMI Stakeholder Engagement Fundamentals |
| Requirements & Scope Definition | PMBOK Guide – Scope Management |
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| Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) | PMBOK Guide – Scope Baseline & WBS + Google Project Management – Planning module (free to audit) |
| Scheduling & Critical Path Method | PMBOK Guide – Schedule Management |
| Cost Estimation & Budgeting | PMBOK Guide – Cost Management |
| Resource Planning | PMBOK Guide – Resource Management |
| Subject | Resource |
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| Risk Identification & Qualitative Analysis | PMBOK Guide – Risk Management |
| Quality Planning & Management | PMBOK Guide – Quality Management |
| Procurement Basics & Contract Types | PMBOK Guide – Procurement Management |
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| Performance Measurement & Earned Value Basics | PMBOK Guide – Monitoring & Controlling |
| Change Control Systems | PMBOK Guide – Integrated Change Control |
| Reporting, Dashboards & Issue Management | Google Project Management – Execution & Control modules (free to audit) |
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| Formal Project Closure & Lessons Learned | PMBOK Guide – Project Closure |
| Benefits Realization | PMBOK Guide – Value Delivery & Outcomes |
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| Team Formation, Leadership & Motivation | Google Project Management – Team Leadership module (free to audit) |
| Communication Planning & Management | PMI Communications Fundamentals |
| Conflict Resolution & Negotiation | Getting to Yes (Archive.org) |
| Ethics & Professional Responsibility | PMI Code of Ethics (free) |