Creating an outline is one of the first step in creating and finishing your course. The outline will help you guide the material and focus on end goal.  Outlines should be broken down into Sections and bite-sized Lectures. Each Section can have 1 or more Lectures. Breakdown lectures in a way that each of them should be around 1-5 minutes. (there is no hard number here, this is just a guideline)


Here is what an outline would look like:


COURSE: Oil and Gas Project Management 101


SECTION 1: Introduction

        Lecture 1:  Introduction to Project Management

        Lecture 2:  Roles of Project Managers

        Lecture 3:  Skills of Project Managers

        Lecture 3:  Project Management Frameworks

        Lecture 4: Project Management Lingo

        Lecture 5: Project Management Concepts 

        Lecture 6: The PMO


SECTION 2: Project Management in Oil and Gas

       Lecture 7: Oil and Gas projects Lifecycle

       Lecture 8: Managing Cost

       Lecture 9: Managing Scope

       Lecture 10: Managing Schedule

       Lecture 11: Different Project Management Tasks within Oil and Gas

       Lecture 12: Particularities of Project Management in Oil and Gas

       Lecture 13: Project Managers in IT

       Lecture 14: Project Managers in Engineering

       Lecture 15: Project Managers in Project Coordination

      

SECTION 3: Interfaces
      Lecture 16: Interactions of Project managers in complex projects
      Lecture 17: Making it count
      Lecture 18: Your stakeholders
      Lecture 19: Dealing with uncertainties

SECTION 4: Adding Value
     Lecture 20: Learn the Business
     Lecture 21: Adapt to specific demands
     Lecture 22: Delivering solutions
     Lecture 23: Communication
     Lecture 24: Applying Lessons Learned
     Lecture 25: Effective meetings