Why choose this course?

Based on the PMBOK process groups and PRINCE2® principles, this course helps you to learn to apply project management philosophy, principles and techniques - enabling you to plan, analyze and measure progress, have control over control and report on any project, in any industry. Over the course of this programme, you will be equipped to:

• Distinguish and interpret the relationship between organisation strategy and project management, as well as differentiate between various categories of projects
• Interpret and apply the interrelatedness of performance, duration and cost relationships in a project, with respect to the project management scoping process
• Explain how the various project role players relate to each other in a matrix organisation, defining and discussing the responsibilities of each
• Apply a comprehensive scoping process, understanding that the rigorous formulation of the scope of a project is a critical success factor in its execution
• Formulate the scope of any project, including validating any assumptions made, evaluate foreseeable risks, as well as determine the mitigating actions required
• Develop the budget of a project from the various types of costs as they relate to the activity, the project and the corporate context
• Monitor the actual cost and schedule progress of a project in comparison to the planned cost and progress
• Interpret the meaning of the variances, diagnose the cause of the variances, suggest remedial measures, make a prognosis of and forecast the eventual outcome of the project in terms of budget and schedule