In today's fast-paced and uncertain corporate climate, excellent project and risk management skills are required. This Project Management and Risk Fundamentals course is a vibrant, hands-on course that provides professionals, team leaders, and aspiring project managers with the tools they need to move projects ahead strategically and confidently.



Project Management and Risk Fundamentals
This course is part of Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP®) Certification Course Specialization

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Grasp foundational project management concepts, including project approaches like Predictive, Iterative, Incremental, and Agile methodologies.
Learn essential risk concepts, including risk management processes, tailoring strategies, and the factors influencing risk decisions.
Gain insights into risk maturity, assumptions, constraints, and absorption, ensuring a comprehensive approach to managing risk.
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This module starts by looking at core project management principles and methodologies, such as Predictive, Iterative, Incremental, and Agile. Learners are then led through a clear understanding of key terminologies, from user stories to story points, sprints, scrum, and even retrospectives, which is critical when dealing with Agile environments.
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In this module, learners explore critical risk factors, including attitude, appetite, tolerance, thresholds, and triggers, and advanced topics like risk maturity, assumptions, constraints, and absorption. The module also examines risk management domains, lifecycle, and planning processes.
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Frequently asked questions
This course refreshes the basic project management concepts required for the course. However experience in Project Management or Risk Management will be helpful. From Risk perspective, this course covers all the fundamentals required. This course serves as fundamental building block for the rest of the courses in the PMI-RMP® specialization.
Yes, you will receive the course certificate upon completing the videos and quizzes provided in the course.
While completing this course and other courses in the PMI-RMP® specialization provides valuable knowledge and skills aligned with the PMI-RMP® exam content, certification is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) upon successful completion of the RMP® exam and meeting other eligibility criteria set by PMI ®.
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