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Project Management for Non Project Managers - PMP/PMI (Udemy.com)

Project Management practical guide for all industries

Created by: Chris Croft

Last updated May 2025

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What you will learn

  • Avoid the top ten mistakes people make in projects
  • Be able to manage a successful project even with zero experience in that industry
  • Learn how to make a Gantt Chart and a PERT diagram with ease
  • Use the PMP or PMI method to do Project Management
  • Measuring whether you're on budget and on time - and how to fix it if you're not
  • Feel calm and effective in running a project of any size in any industry

How it compares

Against the other 243 rated Udemy courses in Project Management on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 44% of them
  • Reviews15,660#15 of 244 by number of reviews
  • Length2.5 hoursshorter than 65% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2025earlier than 67% of them

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Course Description

Master Project Management - Avoid the 10 Most Common Mistakes

Learn the PMP method of Project Management to deliver exception projects on time, on budget, and to spec


Project Management is an incredibly powerful skill for accelerating your career - and you might be surprised to hear that even if you're not a "project manager" you are probably managing a project right now! Managing a big project is often a pivotal moment in your life and yet it's also one most people aren't trained for... and it's very common to get wrong. Whether it's organising a wedding, launching a new product, or getting a spaceship on the moon, Project Management is what keeps this world turning. If you want to be someone who is calm and confident running a project (big or small!) then this Project Management Mastery course is perfect for you


In this course you'll learn practical techniques to master project management - even if project manager is not in your job title. The course is structured around the ten most common project management mistakes and through that you'll learn the entire Project Management Professional (PMP) framework. It covers detailed tips for excellent planning using Gantt Charts and PERT diagrams, managing a team, avoiding overspend, predicting risks and dealing with multiple stakeholders.

After this course you will feel calm, collected, well prepared and confident that your project will be a success. In fact - you'll easily be in the top 10% of the most successful projects! We look at lots of real life project management examples (some of which will definitely get you laughing) and give you practical tools you can use right away to get better results in your projects. Whether you're managing a small at-home project or an entire global corporate expansion this course will build essential skills to ensure your project comes in on budget, on time, and with a very happy client (or boss!).

Chris Croft is an international speaker, and widely published author, who's been teaching Project Management to companies for over 20 years. He's taught all over the world, as well as online, and has an entertaining and practical teaching style. This course is guaranteed to keep you engaged and amused, and teach you life changing skills for home and work.


The course overview includes:

  • Which common mistakes will instantly set your project up to fail

  • What makes a great project manager

  • Be able to manage a successful project even with zero experience in that industry

  • How to make a Gantt Chart and a PERT diagram

  • Predicting which tasks are crucial to your project timing

  • Measuring whether you're on budget and on time

  • What you should NEVER say to a client (or your boss)

  • This course does not look at Agile or Prince in detail - but something better!

  • And lots lots more!

By becoming great at Project Management, not only will you pave the way for a future promotion, you'll also have saved your company thousands!


This course comes with a 30 day money back guarantee

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Instructor Details

Chris Croft

Chris Croft is one of the UK's leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 87,000 people in person and millions online. His video courses are some of the most viewed in the world.


Chris has come from an Engineering background, with a masters degree from Cambridge University, qualifying as a Chartered Engineer, and working as a senior manager in manufacturing for 10 years. He gained an MBA and worked as a university lecturer for four years before starting his own training company 25 years ago.

Chris runs face to face courses in the UK, does zoom training for companies anywhere in the world, and makes video courses in his own studio. You can follow him on Linkedin and YouTube, and he has 18 books on Amazon.


Chris is passionate about practical and fun education with courses that are memorable, entertaining and immediately actionable.

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Reviews

4.5

15,660 ratings on Udemy

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By Anonymized User on 8/9/2022

Anyone who wants a quick overview of project management should enroll in this course. It would be more interesting and richer for the course overall if trivial/tricky quizzes and animations were introduced for better comprehension and illustrative purposes. Thank you Mr. Croft for making the course easy.

By صدام عبد الامير on 11/22/2021

يعطي فكره عن كيفيه انشاء المشروع على الورق اولا من حيث الوقت والكلفه الاوليه,, الملعومات في الدرس ثمينه ولن تندم على شرائه خاصه اذا كان شراءه عند التخفيضات

By Sinem Güngör on 11/17/2020

This course gives general knowledge and some key points about project management. Its very valuable since it comes from real experiences. I like the suprise part at the end very much. I appreciate the hard work. However, I should say that its not about passing the pmp exam as I expected but it was also a good hint for a new starter like me. Thanks.

By Prakhar kapoor on 9/8/2020

I am an MBA student and I have studied Project Management earlier, but the content that was taught in this course has made my concepts more clear. The content is very well taught and explained by the instructor. He has clearly explained the shortest of things that might go wrong. I recommend this course for anyone who has a little bit of knowledge about Project management. This course will help you in making decisions in your organizations.

By Anonymized User on 3/18/2020

the course is an eye opener on how projects should be handled in order to deliver a good and perfect project and also gives an insight on things to do when doing a project .learning of critical path and gantt chant as a tool to ensure monitoring the progress of the project .

By Anonymized User on 3/11/2020

As usual, Chris does a great job of breaking down complex issues and presenting them as smaller actionable items and makes them understandable and tangible. I'm taking many of his courses to help me in my current software support position to help put me in a better position to understand and wear many hats and open opportunities in my career path. Definitely recommend this course, even if you're just looking to understand something better that may not currently apply to you and your role, but may be of interest in the future.

By Bhuvaneshwari Rangarajan on 2/13/2020

This is my first course on Project Management. The instructor Chris Croft described very precisely about the gantt chart and mistakes one will commonly make in project management and how to overcome those. The lectures were very lucid and understandable.

By Radoslav Kirov on 2/2/2020

I love how clear and simple the concepts of PM are presented in this course. A definite recommendation to anyone who would like to dip into the basics overview of project management. It has very good tips and mistakes to avoid included that allow you to get an immediate benefit of being able to put everything in use right away. Not giving full 5 stars just because of the title of the course saying "..Master Project Management.." It's pretty basic and you'd be far from master in PM. Nevertheless, I totally recommend it for people that are making their first steps into the subject or just would like to help themselves be a more organized person.

By George Abang Tawoh on 1/27/2019

My expectation is achieved and I have learnt new practical things especially the common mistakes I have been doing in my past project with our charity organization.

By GES EVENT INTELLIGENCE SRL ACHIM CRISTIN on 10/17/2018

Great course! I absolutely loved it, as I've discovered so many new things, while confirming some things that I was already doing (instinctively of based on experience). The pace could be just a tad faster, but other than that, I think this is a course EVERY Project Manager should take, regardless of her/his experience. Thanks!

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