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SHORT COURSE

Advanced Project Management

This advanced project management course provides project managers with the advanced tools necessary for managing projects effectively, within the context of the challenges posed by a post-covid world, characterised by competing demands for resources and pressures from stakeholders in all directions

About this course

This project management course will strengthen your leadership abilities and build your skills in project governance and planning. Effective engagement of project stakeholders will be addressed, including managing scope definition, and dealing with the myriad of challenges that can arise in bringing a project to successful completion. The overarching approach will include the utilisation of models to build effective teams for achieving project outcomes.

Course structure

This advanced project management course will cover the following content:

  • 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.

Learning outcomes

At the completion of this advanced project course you will 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.

Price 

Full price: $1,365 (GST-free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Enrolment conditions

COVID-19 response 

Who is this course for?

This short course is designed for individuals who have experience in project management and who wish to expand their skills with more advanced tools and techniques in order to take on project leadership roles. It is suitable for project managers, project officers or those making regular and important contributions to more complex projects.

$1,365.00

START DATE

18 May

MODE

CBD location

DURATION

16 hrs

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Meet the Expert

John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier has taught communication programmes at all levels of government, both in Australia and the UK, since 2001. This includes delivering programmes involving presentation skills and communication training to government departments such as NSW Health, Transport NSW, NSW Treasury, NSW Department of Justice (formerly Attorney Generals Department), the Victorian Library Board and UK Health Trusts.

John applies the latest advanced practices in the fields of business, leadership, organisational psychology, analytics and lean engineering to his educational delivery. He is multi-disciplinary, being degree qualified in business, psychology and statistics.

John’s experience includes senior corporate and general management roles in American, British and Chinese multinationals, as well as consultancies for several leading UK and Irish management firms (Childs Davidson/ Canadean/ GlobalData plc). His consulting projects have covered advanced practice studies in strategy, sales & customer service processes, human resource models, communications and organisational issues.

With this background, he offers the most up to date short course delivery for equipping and developing today’s modern professional in the world’s leading practices.

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Thu 18 May 2023 -
Fri 19 May 2023
Expert: John Le Mesurier
  • This course will be delivered at the UTS City campus.
  • CBD location
  • 2 sessions, 16 hours total
Thu 13 Jul 2023 -
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Expert: John Le Mesurier
  • This course will be delivered at the UTS City campus.
  • CBD location
  • 2 sessions, 16 hours total
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