Advanced Diploma in Project Management

Course details

All organisations use projects as the way to translate strategies into plans and objectives into realities and the application of advanced project management skills is often what determines a successful project from a painful and unsatisfactory one. Dublin Business School is a Registered Education Provider (REP) for the Project Management Institute®

and we have designed this Advanced Diploma programme specifically for project managers, team members and senior managers who in addition to obtaining an Advanced Diploma in Project Management may also intend to take the Project Management Institute examination.

Programme Aims and Objectives

The course will bring participants up to speed in the current principles and practices of project management. Incorporating preparation for the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification examination, the main focus of this course will centre on the five projects management processes of Initiation, Planning, Execution, Control and Close-out.

Additionally students will:

• Review the qualification process and the development of application documents that meet PMI’s rigorous standards regarding experience and training
• Gain an appreciation of the PMI approach to project management
• Study techniques that help prepare students for the examination
• Analyse questions that will help students complete the examination.

Programme Structure

In addition to the Advanced Diploma in Project Management this course concentrates on preparing students to take the PMP® certification exam. A review of material normally covered in the examination will be presented. Students are instructed on how best to prepare, study for and take the examination. Sample questions of the type given in the examination are used extensively. This curriculum has been specifically built to broadly map A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide) - Fourth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2008 and the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Examination Specification

Assessment

To be awarded the Advanced Diploma in Project Management, a student will be required to complete an end of course multiple choice examination (100%).

Project Management Institute (PMI®)

With over 300,000 members in 170 countries the Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®) is the leading membership association for the project management profession and the largest association dedicated to project management in the world. Dublin Business School was the first private college in Ireland to be awarded the status of a Registered Education Provider (REP) of Project Management Training by the PMI. The REP programme was developed by the PMI to create a global system to recognise training providers that follow PMI-established criteria for project management training and to enhance the ongoing professional development of PMI’s members, those credentialed through PMI and others in the project management profession.

Programme Content

• The Project Management Framework
• Project Management in context (The Project Management Framework)
• Project Management Fundamentals
• Project Communications Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Integration Management
• Project Procurement Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Management Professional Responsibility