Course Offering Details
Project Management
Cycle: Cohort 5 | Dates: To be announced
Course Overview
This Diploma in project management course will build job-ready capabilities in practicing Project
Managers and those willing to pivot into project Management to initiate, plan, execute,
monitor/control, and close projects while strengthening leadership, budgeting, risk management,
team coordination, stakeholder engagement, and performance tracking to deliver outcomes on time
and within budget.
Delivery approach (per 3-hour weekly session)
Each class blends: concept briefing, instructor demo, guided practice, and a deliverable/work-product
lab. Students will build a complete project package for a single capstone case from Week 1 through
Week 16.
Benefits
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Who Should Enroll
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Course Curriculum
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1. Diploma kick-off + Advanced PM foundations
Focus: Value delivery, roles, governance, constraints, success measures, predictive vs agile vs hybrid overview.
Hands-on: Define capstone project context, assumptions, and success criteria.
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2. Business case, benefits, and project selection
Focus: Problem framing, benefits mapping, feasibility, high-level options, KPIs. Hands-on: Draft a benefits map + measurable objectives.
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3. Stakeholder identification and engagement strategy
Focus: Stakeholder analysis, power/interest and influence mapping, engagement approaches, governance routines. Hands-on: Stakeholder register + engagement assessment.
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4. Chartering and scope definition
Focus: Project Charter (advanced), scope boundaries, acceptance criteria, requirements overview, change triggers. Hands-on: Create a complete charter + high-level scope statement.
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1. Requirements, WBS, and scope baseline
Focus: Decomposition, deliverable-based planning, scope baseline components, scope validation approach. Hands-on: Build WBS + WBS dictionary starter.
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2. Scheduling and critical path
Focus: Network logic, dependencies, estimating, critical path, milestones, buffers/contingency.
Hands-on: Develop schedule model + milestone plan (Gantt).
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3. Budgeting and cost control
Focus: Cost estimating, contingency vs management reserve, cash flow, cost baseline, forecasting. Hands-on: Build a basic cost baseline and cost-tracking sheet.
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4. Resource planning + procurement fundamentals
Focus: Resource loading, roles/responsibilities, make/buy, procurement documents, vendor evaluation, basics. Hands-on: Resource plan + draft procurement approach (for one major item/service).
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1. Building and leading high-performing teams
Focus: Team formation, motivation, conflict management, leadership styles, delegation and accountability.
Hands-on: Team working agreement + RACI for capstone.
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2. Communications planning and stakeholder reporting
Focus: Communication plan design, information radiators/dashboards, meeting cadence, escalation paths. Hands-on: Communications Management Plan (practical, usable).
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3. Risk management (identify, analyze, prioritize)
Focus: Risk categories, qualitative analysis, probability/impact, risk appetite, assumptions and constraints. Hands-on: Risk register + risk heat map.
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4. Risk responses + quality management
Focus: Response strategies, contingency planning, quality planning, QA vs QC, checklists and acceptance. Hands-on: Risk Response Plan + Quality Management Plan (lightweight but complete).
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1. Performance tracking (EV basics + practical dashboards)
Focus: Status data, baselines, variance analysis, earned value concepts (as appropriate), forecasting, and corrective actions.
Hands-on: Build a one-page status dashboard + variance commentary.
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2. Integrated change control + issue management.
Focus: Change requests, impact analysis, configuration/version control, decision logs, issue escalation. Hands-on: Change log + simple CCB workflow + issue log.
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3. Closing, handover, and lessons learned
Focus: Administrative closure, handover criteria, benefits transition, retrospectives, knowledge capture. Hands-on: Closure checklist + lessons learned report.
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4. Capstone presentations and project Defense
Focus: Presentation of full lifecycle package and decisions made across phases; peer review and instructor panel. Final Deliverable: Complete capstone “project file” plus presentation.