Project management skills are in high demand. Organizations are looking for individuals who can take a structured and organized approach to achieving specific goals and completing projects. Whether you are looking to have your team learn to effectively use internal resources, identify and assess potential risks, or ensure that projects stay on track, here are nine free project management courses to explore to skill, upskill and reskill.

Free online training courses for project management

Project Management Institute

KICKOFF™ – An interactive 45-minute project management course and digital toolkit to get up to speed on the basics of project management (PM). Once you complete, share a badge that shows you know how to manage project(s) from start to finish.

Project Management for Beginners – Provides the foundational knowledge necessary to join a project team and can serve as the first step on your path to a project management career.

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University of Adelaide: Introduction to Project Management – Learn how to plan, scope, schedule, cost and manage your project from beginning to end. Also explore how you to effectively communicate, manage people and employ leadership skills to successfully deliver your own project.

The University of Maryland, College Park: Applied Scrum for Agile Project Management – Learn the key project management processes, roles, mechanics, and philosophies behind Scrum.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Management in Engineering: Strategy and Leadership – Apply basic functional business knowledge to the analysis of case studies for the management of innovation.

Inter-American Development Bank: Project Management for Development – Get introduced to concepts and tools that can be applied to project management to generate material changes and meet expected objectives with limited resources in government and social projects.

Udemy

Introduction to Project Management – This course covers the basic concepts and dives into topics like Project Constraints, Organizational Structures, and Project Management Office (PMO). Also covers the basic Project Management Life Cycle and its types and Project Manager’s tasks in the different process groups like Initiation, Planning, Execution, M & C and Closing.

Project Management Templates Creation – Learn how to create project templates, calculate project costs, plan budgets, issue SOW, evaluate consultants or vendors, create a risk plan and many other templated project activities.

Project Management for Non-Project Managers – Learn the basics of project management, managing time, building a team, working with project stakeholders, planning, scheduling and budgeting, and managing risks.

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