Complexity Courses and Certifications

Introduction to Complexity

151 ratings

In this course you'll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. The topics you'll learn about include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks.

• Complexity Explorer
• 10 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

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Managing complexity: a systems approach

3 ratings at OpenLearn

Explore systems thinking and practice to understand, navigate, and manage complexity in situations involving interconnected things, events, and ideas.

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

12 ratings at OpenLearn

Do you need to change the way you think when faced with a complex situation? This free course, Managing complexity: A systems approach introduction, examines how systemic thinking and practice ...

• OpenLearn
• 75 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Complexity and Public Policy

Apply complexity thinking to wicked policy problems: use the Cynefin framework, agent-based modelling, Human Learning Systems, and developmental evaluation to design and evaluate public policy.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Computability, Complexity & Algorithms

1 rating

Learn tools and techniques that will help you recognize when problems you encounter are intractable and when there an efficient solution.

• Udacity
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Project Management: Mastering Complexity

13 ratings at edX

Develop the project management skills required to handle complexity in engineering, infrastructure and other large projects.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Engineering Project Management: Mastering Project Complexity

Develop the project management skills you need to successfully manage complex engineering, infrastructure and other large projects.

• edX
• 15 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $358.00
• 2 courses

Supporting Executives Through Change and Complexity

Build practical skills to manage shifting executive priorities, communicate across executive-team relationships, and stay composed while handling disruptions and competing demands.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Advanced Algorithms and Complexity

703 ratings at Coursera

Tackle harder problems with network flow algorithms, linear programming, NP-complete reductions and workarounds, approximation algorithms, and streaming methods like CountSketch for huge datasets.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

L'avenir de la décision : connaître et agir en complexité

387 ratings at Coursera

Explorer comment comprendre la complexité, l’incertitude et les interactions humaines pour mieux décider et agir dans le management et l’entreprise.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

GOTO Conferences

Kicking the Complexity Habit

Examines how familiar software tools and processes can mask complexity, and why recognizing those coping habits matters for simpler programming.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Team Topologies, Software Architecture and Complexity

Explores how team structure and software architecture shape complexity as software organizations grow.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Complexity - The Crucial Ingredient in Your Kitchen

Explore how the Challenger disaster illuminates complexity, architecture, risk, and reliability in microservice systems.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Software Architecture, Team Topologies & Complexity Science

Explores how team structure and software architecture interact with complexity science to shape high-performing, scalable organizations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Understanding Modern Physics III: Simplicity and Complexity

34 ratings at Coursera

Explore the span from simplicity to complexity in modern physics: the action principle, fundamental particles and strings, entropy and information, and complexity.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course