After you complete this course you will be able to:

Life cycles: Understand the distinct life cycle stages used to structure and organise a project.

Governance arrangements: Understand governance structures as a framework of authority and accountability for the delivery of a project, which align with organisational practice.

Sustainability: Understand sustainability as balancing the environmental, social, economic and administrative considerations that will impact a project.

Business case: Understand a business case as the justification for the initiation, investment and/or continuation of a project in terms of benefits, costs and risks.

Procurement: Understand procurement as securing the provision of resources, choosing strategies for obtaining best value from supply chains.

Reviews: Understand reviews as a way of gathering information to provide an assessment on the status of a project and the ongoing viability of the work.

Assurance: Understand assurance as the ability to provide confidence to the governance board that a project is on track to deliver objectives.

Transition management: Understand transition management as integration of the outputs of a project into business-as-usual.

Benefits management: Understand benefits management as monitoring of benefits realization throughout a project.
Stakeholder engagement and communication management: Understand stakeholder engagement and communication management as the ability to work with people internally and externally to achieve intended outcomes.

Conflict resolution: Understand conflict resolution as the ability to identify and address differences between individuals and/or interest groups.

Leadership: Understand leadership as ways to empower and inspire others to deliver successful projects.

Team management: Understand team management as the ability to work with team members to create and sustain teams.

Diversity & inclusion: Understand diversity and inclusion as the ability to build and maintain an inclusive environment that embraces a diverse culture.

Ethics, compliance & professionalism: Understand ethics, compliance and professionalism as the ability to work consistently in a moral, legal and socially responsible manner.

Requirements management: Understand requirements management as the ability to capture and monitor the requirements of a project.

Solutions development: Understand solutions development as the ability to determine the optimal solution to satisfy agreed requirements.

Quality management: Understand quality management as the ability to ensure that outputs are delivered in accordance with requirements.

Integrated planning: Understand integrated planning as the ability to incorporate multiple plans and processes into an integrated project management plan.

Schedule management: Understand schedule management as the ability to undertake time-based planning with an emphasis on activities and resource.

Resource management: Understand resource management as the ability to identify and schedule the required internal and external resources.

Budgeting and cost control: Understand budgeting and cost control as the ability to estimate costs, develop and agree budgets and monitor actual costs against forecast costs.

Risk and issue management: Understand risk and issue management as the ability to identify and monitor risks (threats and opportunities); plan responses to those risks and respond to issues.

Change control: Understand change control as the ability to manage variations and change requests in a controlled way.