Focus Awards Project Management Level 3

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Who is it for?

Whether you operate a business or simply want to understand the mechanisms, techniques and processes commonly used to manage projects, this course will give you a fascinating insight and a solid background to build on.

This superb course from My Distance Learning College will prepare you to effectively manage all aspects of a project, and teach you the management tools and strategies used to design, plan and implement controls, identify and create goals and milestones, monitor and adjust progress. At the very least, what you learn is likely to save you and your company money and time by preventing or minimizing losses, and will boost both your employment prospects and your perceived value to your employer and business stakeholders.

Whether you’re already an effective Project Manager, want to become one, or you simply want to learn a more structured way to design, deliver and manage projects, then this course could be the ideal next step in your career.

How will I benefit?

Focus Awards’ ‘Focus on Quality Provision’ (FQP) courses are ideal for those who are looking to gain new knowledge and skills, who may not have the time, money, or simply not need to obtain a qualification in their area of study. They are ideal for CPD courses as they still carry endorsement from a national Awarding Organisation. FQP courses are also ideal for those subjects that fall outside of the QCF and people who want to take a course as a hobby.

Are there any requirements?

Anybody with a reasonable standard of general education will be able to cope with the academic demands of the course. If you can read and write well enough to complete a job application, and have a good grasp of basic maths (add, subtract and divide) you should have no problems. The course materials are written in simple everyday language and the answers to your assignments will be completed in the same style.

In addition to the comprehensive course materials provided, you will receive a Study Guide to assist you, and, of course, you will have the support of your tutor.

Module breakdown

• What is project management?• Why use project management?

• Benefits of project management

• What do project managers actually do?

• History of PM

• Project management old and new

• Modern scientific project management

• Gantt charts

• The Fayol management model

• Network diagrams

• Critical path method (CPM)

• Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)

• Organisational Structure

• The four basic organisational structures

• Project Life Cycle

• The four stage project cycle model

• Milestones and hold points

• Project close-out

• Feasibility Studies

• The client's feasibility study

• Stakeholders

• The client

• Define the constraints on the project

• Value management

• Financial models for project selection

• Payback period

• Return on investment

• Discounted cash flow

• Net present value

• Project Estimating & Scope Definition

• Ball-park cost estimate

• Feasibility study

• Costing Subdivision of project costs

• Direct costs

• Indirect costs

• Time related costs

• Labour & staff costs

• Material & logistics costs

• Miscellaneous costs

• Initiation

• Project charter

• Defining the scope

• Changing scope

• Scope Management

• Project closeout

• Project closeout report

• Project Procurement Plan

• What is required?

• Sourcing

• Communication of requirements to potential suppliers

• Evaluation & selection of supplier

• Review & evaluate tenders

• Manage the Contract

• Closeout

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Presentation

• Producing a WBS

• WBS numbering system

• WBS and costing

• Further breakdown of WBS

• Critical Path

• Network diagrams: WBS and critical path

• Logic

• Activities in series

• Activities in parallel

• Generation of logic

• Activities: summing up

• Resource Planning

• Estimating

• ForecastingResource availability – constraints on the project

• Use of resources

• Resource overload & underload

• Resource adjustment

• Increasing project resources

• Reducing resources

• Controlling the Project

• Why control projects?

• Scope of control

• Scope management

• Technical backup

• Time management

• Resource & procurement management

• Commercial management

• QHSE

• Gathering information

• Applying project control

• Dealing with people

• Quality Management

• Definitions

• Cost of quality

• Right first time costs

• QA costs.

• Internal cost (of failure)

• External cost (of failure)

• Quality circles

• Quality auditing

• Conduct of an audit

• Why audit?

• Quality control plans

• Risk Management

• Hierarchy of control

• Controlling risk

• Risk assessment

• Identify the hazard

• Decide who might be harmed

• Evaluate the risks and decide upon precautions

• Record and implement your findings

• Review and update your risk assessments

• Communication

• Assignments

Please note: 

• Please allow 24 hours to receive your online training details. If your order is made over the weekend, your online training details will be provided on the following Monday morning.