So, you want to be a project manager. Most of us get our first projects before we have any training on how to handle them. This may be your situation. If so, you will experience problems that frustrate you and cost your company money.

This is the first in a series of courses designed to quickly give you the skills and understanding you need to succeed in your projects.

But, "quickly" is relative. You can’t be a "One Minute Project Manager." However, if you’ll apply yourself to these lessons, you will dramatically improve your proficiency in a matter of days.

In fact, if you set aside an hour each day for digesting and applying the information in this and subsequent courses, you'll be soon mastering the Intermediate level courses—even if you have no prior project management experience or training.

This first course gives you an overview and lays the foundation for further study. You must know this material if you are to understand how to competently administer and manage projects. In fact, some projects have failed spectacularly and expensively due to a lack of understanding of the very concepts you'll learn here.