Advanced Project Management

This course is suitable for professionals undertaking the following roles:

• Project manager (generic and industry-specific)
• Project leader
• Project team leader
• Project contract
• Manager project
• Vendor manager

Participants in this course are expected to have an appropriate level of competency in leading and directing a project as identified with the tasks, knowledge and skills in project management.

After completing this course, candidates will be able to:

• Define scope of a project – one of the most challenging project management tasks
• Demonstrate an understanding of project management, its application and context within organisations
• Understand different phases of project management lifecycle and activities to be completed in each phase
• Understand and describe inter-relationship between project scope, time, cost, quality, and risk
• Understand fundamental areas in project planning process: scope, time, cost, risk, quality, procurement, communication, human resource, and integration management
• Explain importance of project monitoring and control processes
• Articulate importance of project closure process

• Face to face or virtual trainer delivered two (2) day course.
• Undertake individual and group led activities to support practical application
• Includes additional reference resources.
• Students receive certificate of completion at end of course

• Project and strategic planning
• Standards in project management
• Project goals, objectives and success factors
• Projects and organisational structure
• Project management process groups and knowledge areas
• Project initiation process including project charter
• Project management plan
• Project scope management and project time management
• Gantt Chart and critical path techniques
• Project cost, human resources, risk, quality and procurement management
• Project monitoring and control
• Scope, cost and schedule control
• Project performance measurement
• Stakeholder management