Diploma in Project Management
Diploma in Project Management
Duration
6 months
Start Dates
Flexible
Fees
Corporate packages available.
Refer to IBCM.
Attendance
3 days a week (average 15 hours each week).
Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm
Entry Requirements
2 x ‘A’ Level qualifications passes (E Grade) or
vocational equivalent at BTEC National Diploma (Pass)
IELTS 5.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all skill areas) or equivalent.
Students with significant relevant work experience can also be considered.
Student Satisfaction
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Awarding Body
IBCM
UCAS Course Code
N/A
Course Overview
The Diploma in Project Management combines advanced skills-training in project management. This course provides the training you need to manage your projects more efficiently and effectively. The course is based on the use of the analytical management approach rather than the directive approach, and it deals with management from a human and technical perspective. The success of the project is the primary goal of managing projects. Nothing is more important to the success of a project than making good, informed decisions, and although this technical skill is by far the most important skill, few managers have received formal training for decision-making and project management.
This course will provide you with a proven set of methods, processes, tools and techniques to develop a systematic and dynamic project plan that ensures the progressive monitoring and reporting of project progress. This will enable the team to:
IDEAL CANDIDATE
- Project managers.
- All project professionals.
- Project planning engineers and managers.
- Senior Professionals in Project Control and Business Services
Course outlines:
This course provides the training you need to manage your projects more efficiently and effectively. The course is based on the use of the analytical management approach rather than the directive approach, and it deals with management from a human and technical perspective. The success of the project is the primary goal of managing projects. Nothing is more important to the success of a project than making good, informed decisions, and although this technical skill is by far the most important skill, few managers have received formal training for decision-making and project management.
Project management is a new profession that has emerged in many fields. After projects became more complex, many organizations resorted to project management, and the demand for competent project managers increased, but the surprise is the failure of many large and small projects. The question is: Why did these projects fail? The answer was not related to the size or complexity of the project as much as how the project was planned and how it was monitored, and the failure can be traced back to the lack of definition, planning or careful monitoring of the project.
Learning Outcomes
This course will provide you with a proven set of methods, processes, tools and techniques to develop a systematic and dynamic project plan that ensures the progressive monitoring and reporting of project progress. This will enable the team to:
- Understand the planning process.
- Setting project objectives.
- Put these goals into timelines.
- Knowing the extent of the economic evaluation of the project.
- Understand the project’s risks and how to manage them.
SYLLABUS:
PHASE
TOPICS
- Introduction to project management.
- Project management method.
- The stages that each project passes through.
- Principles of project management.
- Defining what the project is.
- Regulating project management laws.
Work as a team.
Project goals.
The necessary tools and skills for the project.
The scope of the project.
Factors that lead to the collapse of the project.
Evaluation of success factors.
Assessment of risk factors.
The planning process as a group.
Assigning responsibilities to team members.
Human resource planning.
Develop a plan schedule.
Establishing laws.
Execution of specific plans or tasks.
Ensure that everyone understands the tasks.
Implementation of group plans.
Improve team performance.
Implementation of administrative plans.
Analysis of operation costs.
Risk Management.
Finding solutions to problems.
Operational process of the project.
Team follow-up operations.
Follow-up and audit of the team’s tasks.
Verification of results and changes.
Control of changes.
Negotiation and reporting.
Effective meeting management.
Quality control.
Simulation of a group of executive projects.
Academic
2 x ‘A’ Level qualifications passes (E Grade) or
vocational equivalent at BTEC National Diploma (Pass)
IELTS 5.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all skill areas) or equivalent.
Students with significant relevant work experience can also be considered.
You will be taught at our Central Manchester location and will attend three terms each year. You will attend classes 3 days a week, averaging 15 hours a week. Your classes will be scheduled Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm and you will experience a variety of teaching methods. Most modules are delivered through lectures, seminars and workshops.
- Lectures provide a broad outline structure for each topic to be covered. Lectures offer a good way of covering a lot of information and, more importantly, of conveying ideas to many people at once.
- Seminars enable you to complete directed self-study and to answer questions and solve problems which are set by the lecturer. You will discuss your answers and solutions within the seminar group. Seminars will enable you to explore further the topics introduced in the lectures.
- Workshops follow on from lectures and seminars. They are designed to enable you to work within a small group to perform set tasks (e.g. working on an exercise or case study).
Assessment
To achieve each module you will have to demonstrate competence in each of the relevant learning outcomes identified above. Assessment may take the form of a completed written assignment or report, a project, or a presentation (or combination of any of the above). Some group work may take place, although you will always be assessed on an individual basis.
You will be given formative assessment early on in each module to enable you to identify where your strengths are and which areas you need to develop in order to be successful.
You will then be assessed at the end of each module against the required Learning outcomes. All assessments go through our own Internal Quality Assurance process to ensure that they meet the highest possible standards and give you every opportunity to achieve (see IBCM Assessment and Verification Policy)
Students will be awarded a grade of pass, merit or distinction for each module and an overall grade at the end of the qualification.
All of our assessment and internal quality procedures are regularly monitored and an Assessment Board will be held at the end of each term to verify all decisions made as well as to investigate any issues of concern.
Should you not meet the learning outcomes on your first submission, you will be given one opportunity for a resubmission. You may also be given the opportunity to resubmit in order to obtain a higher grade. If, at the resubmission, you still do not meet the required outcomes, one opportunity to retake the unit can be authorised. This unit can then receive a maximum pass grade.
If a unit is still not passed at this stage it is deemed to have failed. Your assessor will discuss the options with you, such as an alternative unit in the case of optional units, or whether you are able to study the core module again (repeat). See IBCM Assignment submission procedure. Full attendance at lessons for the repeated module is required along with appropriate payment.
There are compensation provisions within both the HNC and HND provision in that students can still be awarded the qualification if they have not achieved a pass in one of the 15 credit units completed, but have completed and passed the remaining units5
For details of fees see full price list.