APMP Training - United Kingdom

APM Introductory Certificate (PFQ) Course Outline

During this 2-day course, delegates will produce various documents required to plan, monitor and control any project. There will be ample opportunity to discuss their findings, their understanding of the processes and their approach to Project Management. Throughout the workshop additional information will be given to ensure candidates cover the objectives of each session. Individual exercises will also be used to consolidate the subjects taught.

• Introduction to Project Management
• Project Lifecycle
• Project Management Approach
• Project Context
• Project Organisation Structure
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Project Reporting and Reviews
• Detailed Planning
• Networks
• Estimating
• Critical Path Analysis
• Gantt Chart
• Introduction to Programme Management
• People Management and Teams
• Documentation
• Business Case
• Project Management Plan
• Methods and Procedures
• Risks
• Issues
• Change/Configuration Management
• Quality
• Monitoring and Control
• Breakdown Structures

APM Project Professional Qualification PPQ 2nd edition Course Outline

APM PPQ is made up of core and elective modules. Candidates must study and take an exam for three core modules and one elective module from the list.

Core Modules

Module 1: Professionalism and managing others

1. Promote the wider public good in all actions, and act in an ethically and legally appropriate manner in dealings with stakeholders and members of project teams and the organisation.
2. Develop and manage teams
3. Identify, address and resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups
4. Empower and inspire others to deliver successful change initiatives

Module 2: Planning & Control

1. Identify and monitor risks (threats and opportunities), plan and implement responses to them, and respond to other issues that affect change initiatives
2. Prepare and maintain schedules for activities and events for change initiatives, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements
3. Develop, implement and update resource allocation plans (other than finance) for change initiatives, taking account of availabilities and scheduling
4. Develop and agree budgets for change initiatives, and control forecast and actual costs against budgets
5. Consolidate and document the fundamental components for change initiatives: scope; schedule; resource requirements; budgets; risks, opportunities and issues; and quality requirements

Module 3: Governance

1. Establish and maintain structures that define clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for the governance and delivery of change initiatives, and that align with organisational practice
2. Manage stakeholders, taking account of their differing levels of influence and of their particular interests
3. Establish and manage reviews, during and after change initiatives, which will inform governance of the change initiatives, by providing evaluations of progress, methodologies and continuing relevance
4. Establish protocols to alter change initiatives, implementing the protocols when necessary, and updating configuration documentation
5. Prepare, gain approval of, refine and update business cases that justify the initiation and/or continuation of change initiatives

Elective Modules

Module 4: Project Management

1. Prepare and maintain definitions of the requirements of a project
2. Determine the most appropriate solution to satisfy requirements within the context of a project’s objectives and constraints
3. Secure the provision of resources needed for a project from internal and/or external providers
4. Agree contracts and statements of work for the provision of goods and/or services, monitor compliance, and manage variances
5. Develop, maintain and apply quality management processes for project activities and outputs

Module 5: Programme Management

1. Identify, define, evaluate, plan, track and realise the business benefits of change initiatives
2. Plan the integration of the outputs of a project or outcomes of a programme into business as usual, addressing the readiness of users, compatibility of work systems and the realisation of benefits
3. Plan and control the finances of related projects and business as usual activities in a programme, as a means of driving performance and as part of the organisation’s overall financial management
4. Prepare and maintain an overall schedule for resource use across projects in a programme, which avoids bottlenecks and conflicting demands, and which sequences outcomes in order to enable the efficient realisation of benefits
5. Evaluate frameworks and methodologies used to ensure that the management of programmes will be comprehensive and will be consistent across different projects
6. Ensure that information from related projects is valid through independent assurance, and that the programme is likely to achieve its aims

Module 6: Portfolio Management

1. Recommend how financial and other resources should be allocated amongst projects, programmes and business as usual activities in a portfolio
2. Ensure that information from related projects, programmes and business as usual activities in a portfolio is valid through independent assurance, and that the portfolio is likely to achieve its aims
3. Plan and control the finances of projects, programmes and business as usual activities in a portfolio as a means of driving performance and as part of the organisation’s overall financial management
4. Prepare and maintain an overall schedule for resource use in related change initiatives in a portfolio
5. Evaluate frameworks and methodologies used to ensure that the management of change initiatives will be comprehensive and will be consistent across a portfolio

PMQ for PRINCE2® Practitioners Course Outline

There are 73 assessment criteria that are covered for PMQ certification – 26 of these are covered by PRINCE2® Practitioner. Therefore PRINCE2® practitioners shall only be examined on the remaining 47 assessment criteria. Below are the aim and learning objectives for the PMQ for PRINCE2 practitioners course:

• Structure of organisations and projects
• Project life cycle
• Project contexts and environments
• Governance and structured methodologies
• Communication
• Leadership and teamwork
• Planning for success
• Scope management
• Schedule and resource management
• Procurement
• Project risk management and issue management
• Project quality management