This qualification is a reviewed Single Subject and will be awarded as a Single Subject Certificate from June 2023.
Projects in Contemporary Organisations
- Definitions
- Why project management
- The Project Life Cycle (PLC)
Strategic Management and Project Selection
- Project management maturity
- Project selection and criteria of choice
- Types of project selection models
- Net present value
The Project Manager
- Job description
- Job specification
- Person specification
- Cultural differences
Project Organisation
- Functional organisation
- Pure project organisation
- Matrix organisation
- Mixed organisational systems
- Project teams
- The human factor
Project Planning
- Initial project coordination
- Systems integration
- Work breakdown structure
- Linear responsibility chart
- Budgeting and cost estimation
- Estimating project budgets
- Improving the process of cost estimation
- Scheduling and resource allocation
- Background
- Network techniques: PERT and CPM
- The resource allocation problem
- Resource loading
- Resource levelling
- Crashing
Conflict and Negotiation
- The nature of negotiation
- Partnering, chartering, and change
- Conflict and the PLC
- Linear responsibility chart
- Principles of negotiation
Scheduling and Resource Allocation
- Background
- Network techniques: PERT and CPM
- Critical Path Method (CPM)
- The resource allocation problem
- Resource loading
- Resource levelling
- Crashing
Monitoring and Information Systems
- The planning-monitoring-controlling cycle
- Information needs and the reporting process
- Earned value analysis
- Computerised Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Project Control
- The fundamental purpose of control
- Three types of control process
- Design of control system
- Control as a function of management
- Balance in a control system
- Control of creative activities
- Control of change and scope creep
Project Auditing
- Purpose of evaluation – goals of the system
- The project audit
- The project audit life-cycle
- Construction and use of the audit report
Project Termination
- The varieties of project termination
- When to terminate a project
- The termination process
- The final report – a project history
Example Candidate Response Booklet
Example Candidate Response (ECR) Booklets are a source of crucial information for Centres and Candidates as they use real candidate responses. We ask Senior Examiners to comment on five or more responses in terms of why the mark was awarded with commentary about how to improve the answer (if necessary).
