Managing IT Project Scope, Schedule, and Resources

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master the art of IT project management by learning to manage scope, schedule, and resources effectively. This course equips you with essential techniques to define project requirements, develop schedules, estimate resources, and balance budgets while maintaining quality and performance standards. Dive into managing scope with tools like Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and techniques for collecting requirements. Move on to schedule management by identifying milestones, estimating activities, sequencing tasks, and maintaining a project timeline. You'll also learn about baselines, schedule adjustments, and forecasting for seamless project execution. Explore cost estimation, budget determination, and performance tracking to ensure your projects are financially sound. Deepen your understanding of managing resources—both human and material—by examining team dynamics and resource lifecycle, and addressing gaps through gap analysis and stakeholder engagement strategies. This course is ideal for aspiring and current IT project managers, team leads, and business analysts with a basic understanding of project management principles. Whether you're working in Agile or traditional frameworks, the skills you'll gain here are indispensable.