PMA® Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate: The Graduate project management qualification is designed for those who see project management as a key part of their role. It establishes a solid foundation in project management behaviours, skills, processes and tools. It is ideal for those, with a few years’ experience in project delivery, who are seeking to consolidate a structured approach to project management.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

Confidently apply the principles of project management to your project including:

Defining the different roles in a project

Describing the difference between a project, programme and portfolio

Understanding impact of project context on success

Establishing the project lifecycle and its benefits

Developing a project business case

Preparing a project management plan with the associated baselines

Describing the way in which project managers lead and develop teams

Describe how to control a project including applying earned value management

Explain how to procure external resources

Explain how quality can be managed during project delivery

Confidently sit the PMP exam with a clear understanding of what is required to pass.
Explain the benefits of project management to you and your organisation.

What is the course like?

Our courses are highly interactive with lots of exercises, discussion, buzz groups and examples to bring the subject of project management to life. You will get plenty of opportunity to practice exam questions with constructive feedback from your course tutor.

For our public courses we use high class training venues with excellent transport links. Our public courses include a full 5-day programme with Friday morning dedicated to final exam prep with your course tutor and the exam on Friday afternoon.

To do this the workshop will be focused on various topics from the syllabus in sections below.

Course Outline:

  • Course Introduction
  • Context and Environments
  • Organisations and Project Structures
  • Project Lifecycles
  • Organisation and Governance
  • Leadership, communications and team work
  • Planning for success and scope management
  • Scheduling and project control
  • Exam prep and exam
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