Why choose this course?
This PG Cert course will provide professionals working in a variety of industries (ranging from IT, through engineering to creative industries) with an introduction to the requisite skills necessary to manage projects and programmes to a successful conclusion. It includes classic project and programme management, including the acquisition of skills in the widely used project management tools. In addition you will learn how to appraise issues, which if not addressed can often limit the success of projects, these are the legal issues surrounding project management, change management and financial management.
At the end of this course you, the student, will be able to:
apply project management systems, tools, and methodologies in a wide range of contexts, analyzing key project management themes to achieve maximum benefits realization and organisational behavioral change;
to work effectively within different types of team environments to manage and lead such teams in compliance with best practice in project and programme management within organisations;
Analyse risks and uncertainty affecting complex projects and programmes, to respond appropriately to complex project and programme issues in the absence of complete data and to communicate clearly and effectively to specialist and non-specialist stakeholders;
Demonstrate understanding of the operation of major projects and programmes as temporary organisations and behaviour within such organisations and related competence in the design and implementation of organisation structures, strategies, systems and procedures for complex programmes not only across business sectors but also in the public sector