Key benefits of this course
By the completion of this advanced project course, you should be able to:
- Use more advanced tools and techniques in project management for leading projects
- Respond to a project brief from a project sponsor
- Develop the project scope from the project sponsor’s brief and achieve project sponsor approval
- Initiate a project after gaining approval, including listing project deliverables, constraints, quality requirements and outcomes
- Effectively estimate timing, costs and resources required for more complex projects as part of your project plan
- Build a project management culture by motivating and successfully leading multi-functional project teams
- Manage change caused by variances against time schedules and cost budgets
- Conduct risk management activities and apply project scope controls
- Direct project communications in all directions by effectively managing upwards, sideways and in so doing, enabling a high performing project team
- Evaluate project outcomes and draw lessons from the project for continuous improvement.
Digital badge and certificate
A digital badge and certificate will be awarded following the successful completion of any necessary tasks or assessments to demonstrate acquired learning of the short course or for meeting attendance and/or participation requirements.
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Course outline
The following content will be covered during the course:
- The range of project management approaches available
- The suitability of each of the project management approaches for different types of projects
- Different business models and organisational structures for running projects
- Identifying the challenges along the project lifecycle
- Project governance throughout the project lifecycle
- Models and frameworks for building high performing project teams
- Managing the project sponsor and their project brief
- How to initiate and scope a project
- Planning the project
- Managing the trade-off across time, cost and quality
- Identifying risk appetite and managing project risk accordingly
- Procuring project resources, both human and material
- Managing project change and resolving project issues
- Controlling projects relative to each milestone
- Project review, progress reporting and performance reports
- Project close and post-evaluation/lessons learned.
Price
Full price: $1,398 (GST-free)*
*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase.
Discounts are available for this course. For further details and to verify if you qualify, please check the Discounts section.
Discounts
Discounts are available for this course as follows:
- 10% discount for UTS staff, alumni and students
Discounts cannot be combined and only one discount can be applied per person per course session. Discounts can only be applied to the full price. Discounts cannot be applied to any offered special price.
How to enrol and obtain your UTS staff, alumni or student discount
Please contact the team at support@open.uts.edu.au with either your staff or student number.
If you are eligible for a UTS alumni or student discount, please ensure you have provided your UTS student number during checkout.
If you are an alumni and have forgotten your UTS student number, email support@utsopen.uts.edu.au with your full name, UTS degree and year of commencement.
Enrolment conditions
Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions.
Contact us
For any questions on enrolment or payment, please email support@open.uts.edu.au
If you have a specific question on course content or requirements, please email ippg.learning@uts.edu.au
