About This Diploma in Project Management Course
Our approach goes beyond the functional areas of project management and on a journey through the project management lifecycle. Drawing on the three spheres of Managing by Project - change management, investment management and project management - this course aims to develop the broad range of skills and expertise required of a modern day project manager. Become accredited in project management with a nationally recognised qualification and with certification with the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)

The course includes a one day advanced cost and benefits management course, and one day's training in MS Project™.

Diploma in Project Management Subjects Covered
The course will cover the following competencies outlined in the Business Services Training Package (BSB01):
BSBPM501A – Manage application of project integrative processes
BSBPM502A – Manage project scope
BSBPM503A – Manage project time
BSBPM504A – Manage project costs
BSBPM505A – Manage project quality
BSBPM506A – Manage project human resources
BSBPM507A – Manage project communications
BSBPM508A – Manage project risk
BSBPM509A – Manage project procurement

Diploma in Project Management Course Outcomes
Session 1 Managing by Project
1. Explain the four principles of project management
2. Describe the relationships between the four principles
3. Identify the four management areas of Managing by Project
4. Describe the interrelationships between the four management areas

Session 2 Methodologies, Roles and Responsibilities, Project Governance
1. List the following methodologies:
· Managing by Project
· PMBoK
· Prince2
· Theory of Constraints
2. Explain typical project lifecycle
3. Explain Stage gate financing
4. Explain the funnels and filters of Managing by Project
5. Describe the responsibilities for all project roles
6. Describe the accountabilities for all project roles
7. Illustrate the typical project governance model

Session 3 – Concept Phase
1. Explain the concept statement
2. Define a KPI and write a smart objective
3. Outline the qualities of a project that justify the expenditure on it
4. Describe the qualitative analysis for projects
5. List the contents of a business case
6. Define options and project approach
7. Estimate project costs
8. Describe why you value benefits on projects

Session 4 –Communication and stakeholder analysis
1. Define Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
2. Describe organisational power
3. Explain ways to influence
4. Identify key stakeholders of your project
5. Analyse stakeholders
6. Describe the commitment curve
7. Develop stakeholder action plans

Session 5 – Leadership
1. Identify a variety of Leadership styles
2. Describe the qualities that make up leadership in project management
3. Develop high performing teams
4. Resolve culture clashes
5. Manage conflict
6. Promote innovation

Session 6 – Development Phase
1. Explain how to scope a projects
2. Identify and manage risks as well as critical success factors
3. Define Quality
4. Build a work breakdown structure
5. Create a network diagram
6. Calculate the critical path
7. Build project budgets
8. Describe base-lining and earned value

Session 7 Implementation Phase
1. Explain the various tender evaluation methods
2. Explain contract administration
3. Monitor quality for benefits realisation
4. Balancing time, cost and quality through benefits management
5. Calculate earned value and track progress
6. Update risk management plans
7. Control scope of the project

Session 8 Close out phase
1. Justify the importance of deliverable sign off
2. Describe what to review at the end of each major deliverable
3. Explain the difference between a deliverable review and a project review
4. Explain the difference between a project review and a benefits review

Session 1: Refresh WBS and Critical Path
1. Work breakdown structures (WBS)and network diagrams
2. Identify the critical path
3. Project Plan Refresh

Session 2: Assigning costs and managing resources
1. Assign rates to resources
2. Identify over allocated resources
3. Level resources on a single project plan automatically
4. Level resources on a single project plan manually
5. Utilise Resource usage views to track resource allocation

Session 3: Resource concepts
1. Explain effort driven resourcing
2. Assign effort and resource to your project once
3. Explain the driver resource
4. Identify the impact of changing tasks once project plan set up
5. Identify the impacts of adding and reducing resources once project plan set up
6. Demonstrate how to reschedule tasks

Session 4: Reports, Tables and Filters
1. Track float and project progress on your project plans
2. Utilise the Zoom function to manipulate Gantt chart view
3. Utilise existing reports from MS Project
4. Customise reports for your own use
5. Record a basic macro to run reports
6. Integrate MS Project with Excel

Session 5: Establishing a Multiple project program overview
1. Explain how to set up a resource pool to be used on multiple projects
2. Demonstrate how to link a project to a resource pool
3. Assign resources from a resource pool to multiple projects

Session 1 – Accounting fundamentals
1. Compile double entry accounts
2. Explain the components of a balance sheet
3. Describe a typical chart of accounts

Session 2 – The P&L
1. Analyse project impacts on profit
2. Identify margins

Session 3 – Cost estimating and tracking
1. Identify various cost estimating techniques
2. Explain the accrual process
3. Analyse actual costs