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The thirteen teaching modules of the course, grouped into five parts that move from foundations to advanced practice.

Study them in order. Each module builds on the ones before it. The Sessions column shows where each module sits in the 16-week, 32-session plan — see the Curriculum Roadmap for the session-by-session detail, or the Learning Path if you are deciding where to start.

What is available now

All 29 lessons are written and published. Every teaching module has one lesson for each of its sessions (the capstone's two working sessions draw on artefacts you produce rather than introducing new material), so you can work through the course in the roadmap's order without gaps.

Module Lessons Module Lessons
01 Foundations 3 07 Cost & Estimation 2
02 Initiation 3 08 Risk 1
03 Planning 1 09 Quality 1
04 Agile & Scrum 3 10 Team & Communication 2
05 Scope 2 11 Metrics & Control 3
06 Schedule 2 12 Advanced 5
13 Capstone 3
Advanced practice track 8 (extension, beyond the 32 sessions) —

Lessons are complete, and so is the lab programme: 25 practical labs across beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, each tied to a module and to a scenario, with worked solutions in the instructor answer keys.

What remains is the assessment layer: only the Foundations quiz exists so far, the remaining module quizzes are still to be written, and so is the capstone rubric. See the Progress Guide for a checklist that separates what is ready from what is planned.

Part I — Foundations

Module What you learn Sessions
01. Foundations of Software Project Management What a project is, how life cycles work, who does what, and what "success" means S1–S3
02. Project Initiation & Stakeholders Turning an idea into a chartered project with identified stakeholders S4–S6
03. Integrated Project Planning How the parts of a plan fit together, and how to control change S7

Part II — Agile & Adaptive Delivery

Module What you learn Sessions
04. Agile, Scrum & Lean Delivery Adaptive delivery approaches and when to use them S8–S10

Part III — Planning Knowledge Areas

Module What you learn Sessions
05. Scope & Requirements Management Defining and controlling what the project will deliver S11–S12
06. Schedule Management Sequencing work and finding the critical path S13–S14
07. Cost & Estimation Estimating effort and cost, and tracking against budget S15–S16
08. Risk Management Finding risks early and planning responses S18
09. Quality Management Building quality in rather than testing it in S19
10. Resources, Team & Communication The human side: teams, motivation, conflict, communication S20–S21

Part IV — Control & Advanced Practice

Module What you learn Sessions
11. Metrics, Monitoring & Control Measuring progress and correcting course S22–S24
12. Advanced Project Management Scaling, distributed teams, procurement, hybrid delivery S25–S29

Part V — Capstone

Module What you learn Sessions
13. Capstone Project Plan and deliver an end-to-end project S30–S32

Start with the capstone brief, then choose an option from the five scenarios, check the deliverables and the milestones and submission checklist, and work through the three lessons: planning, delivering and controlling, and closing and presenting. Deliverable 13 uses the change scenario, and the capstone rubric is the assessment instrument.

Part VI — Advanced Practice (extension)

The advanced practice track is an optional extension beyond the 32-session course. It assumes you have completed Modules 01–12 and covers the fifteen advanced topics that the core course names but does not develop: governance and decision rights, portfolio and programme context, prioritisation, complex stakeholder environments, advanced risk, schedule and cost trade-offs, recovery, delivery metrics, change control at scale, distributed teams, vendor management, ethics, technical debt, agile scaling, and organisational learning.

Every lesson states where the technique stops being useful and which choices depend on context, because these are the topics where confident-sounding advice is least reliable. Nothing in the track is required to complete the capstone.

How to work through a module

Every module has the same structure, so you always know where to find things.

The lesson explains the concepts with worked examples and diagrams. Read it actively — pause at each example and predict what comes next.

The lab has you build a real project-management artefact. Document templates are in Templates.

A case study shows the concepts applied to a realistic scenario. Answer the discussion questions before reading the model answers.

Take the module quiz. Answers are hidden behind collapsible sections — try first, then reveal. Self-mark your lab against its rubric.

Module anatomy

Each module's overview page contains, in the same order:

  1. Overview and why the topic matters
  2. Learning outcomes
  3. Estimated study time and prerequisites
  4. Lesson plan
  5. Lab
  6. Case study
  7. Self-assessment
  8. Key terms

If you ever feel lost, the module overview is the map back to where you are.