APMP - APM Professional

APMP is the qualification is for anyone who has worked within project management for up to two years, such as project office personnel, team members, recently appointed project officers, or for anyone who has recently taken on project management responsibilities as part of their job.

The course provides a wide breadth of knowledge in all areas of Project Management, from strategic and commercial implications, to the technical, organisational, and people management skills required to participate effectively within a project team. The APMP qualification provides evidence of a thorough understanding of project management. Based upon the APM’s Body of Knowledge, the course covers all the techniques required to plan, control and implement successful projects.

Who Should Attend
APMP is the benchmark qualification for anyone embarking on a project management career, or looking to add project management to their portfolio of skills.

Pre-requisites
This is an advanced course and it is advised that you have either completed one of the following courses Principles of Project Management, ISEB Foundation Certificate in IT Project Management, PRINCE2 Foundation or the APM Introductory Certificate. Or have extensive experience in project management and ideally have been working in a Projects role for at least two years.

Additional Costs
Prices shown are excluding VAT - There is an additional exam fee of £315 (£215 for APMP members) plus VAT

COURSE TOPICS

GENERAL
What is a Project? and Project Management?
Defining ‘Programme Management’ and ‘Portfolio Management’
Understand the benefits of managing groups of projects within an organisation
The important factors of a project’s context and the effects of these context factors on a project
Understand stakeholder management

STRATEGIC
Project success criteria and success factors
Learn suitable performance indicators to apply to project success factors
The Project Management Plan, its purpose, content, authorship, readership and ownership
The Project risk management process
Identifying and evaluating risks and the risk management plan
The role of quantitative analysis
Common quality techniques
Differences between quality planning, quality control, and quality assurance
Health and Safety and Environment standards applicable to PM

CONTROL
Main break down structures and their fundamental relationships
Demonstrate the use of different techniques for scheduling projects
Time schedules and resource allocation schedule
Resource histograms and ‘S’ curves
Cost management - methods & reasons
Change control
Identifying possible change control problems
Understand how an earned value system works
Communication methods

TECHNICAL
How to structure a project cost estimate
The different estimation methods
Estimating the effort needed to execute a project
Configuration management
Defining the terms configuration control, configuration identification, configuration status accounting, configuration auditing

COMMERCIAL
Understanding the business case
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Net Present Value (NPV)
Payback periods
Purchasing and contracting methods
Outlining the principles of managing suppliers and contractors

ORGANISATION AND GOVERNANCE
Project lifecycles
Handover and closeout
Project reviews
Organisational roles

ORGANISATIONAL
Project life-cycle and the reasons for managing projects in them
The hand-over and close-out process
Post project review and its place in the project life-cycle
Recognising the different types of project organisation and their merits
The factors to be considered when setting up the project organisation and its administration and defining the different roles required in the management of projects

PEOPLE
Communicating methods
Identifying the needs of teams
The different types of teams and social roles needed in teams
How to build and motivate a team
Leadership qualities
Conflict management
Negotiation techniques