APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) Online Course

All about this APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) course

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, you should:

• Life cycles: Understand the distinct life cycle stages used to structure and organise a project.
• Governance arrangements: Understand governance structures as a framework of authority and accountability for the delivery of a project, which align with organisational practice.
• Sustainability: Understand sustainability as balancing the environmental, social, economic and administrative considerations that will impact a project.
• Business case: Understand a business case as the justification for the initiation, investment and/or continuation of a project in terms of benefits, costs and risks.
• Procurement: Understand procurement as securing the provision of resources, choosing strategies for obtaining best value from supply chains.
• Reviews: Understand reviews as a way of gathering information to provide an assessment on the status of a project and the ongoing viability of the work.
• Assurance: Understand assurance as the ability to provide confidence to the governance board that a project is on track to deliver objectives.
• Transition management: Understand transition management as integration of the outputs of a project into business-as-usual.
• Benefits management: Understand benefits management as monitoring of benefits realization throughout a project.
• Stakeholder engagement and communication management: Understand stakeholder engagement and communication management as the ability to work with people internally and externally to achieve intended outcomes.
• Conflict resolution: Understand conflict resolution as the ability to identify and address differences between individuals and/or interest groups.
• Leadership: Understand leadership as ways to empower and inspire others to deliver successful projects.
• Team management: Understand team management as the ability to work with team members to create and sustain teams.
• Diversity & inclusion: Understand diversity and inclusion as the ability to build and maintain an inclusive environment that embraces a diverse culture.
• Ethics, compliance & professionalism: Understand ethics, compliance and professionalism as the ability to work consistently in a moral, legal and socially responsible manner.
• Requirements management: Understand requirements management as the ability to capture and monitor the requirements of a project.
• Solutions development: Understand solutions development as the ability to determine the optimal solution to satisfy agreed requirements.
• Quality management: Understand quality management as the ability to ensure that outputs are delivered in accordance with requirements.
• Integrated planning: Understand integrated planning as the ability to incorporate multiple plans and processes into an integrated project management plan.
• Schedule management: Understand schedule management as the ability to undertake time-based planning with an emphasis on activities and resource.
• Resource management: Understand resource management as the ability to identify and schedule the required internal and external resources.
• Budgeting and cost control: Understand budgeting and cost control as the ability to estimate costs, develop and agree budgets and monitor actual costs against forecast costs.
• Risk and issue management: Understand risk and issue management as the ability to identify and monitor risks (threats and opportunities); plan responses to those risks and respond to issues.
• Change control: Understand change control as the ability to manage variations and change requests in a controlled way.

Pre-requisite

All potential delegates need to undertake a free online project management assessment. This will confirm suitability and readiness for your chosen course. Please watch the APM Learner Suitability video accessible here and then complete the assessment.

This is not an entry level qualification, candidates typically:

• Work in a project environment.
• Possess 2-3 years of project management experience or are pursuing a related apprenticeship or degree.
• Aim to advance their career and employability.
• Seek comprehensive project management knowledge beyond specific methodologies

If you don’t already have any of the experiences referred to above, you might want to take the APM Project Fundamentals Qualification before studying for the APM Project Management Qualification.

What is included in the APM Project Management Qualification course? 

• Get 12 Months Unlimited Access.
• Official APM PMQ E-Learning.
• Over 40 hours of additional learning resources to help support exam preparation.
• Access to up to 12 x 3-hour online revision workshops. Minimum requirement, delegates must attend 8 sessions in a 12-month period.
• Exam simulator

This course is equivalent to SCQF Level 7.

Bulk discounts

Bulk discounts are available on purchases of 10 or more courses.

If you wish to discuss a large individual order for this course, and/or would like to be invoiced in advance, please call our sales team on 0808 175 1269 to make an enquiry.

APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) course is provided by ILX Group, an ATO of APM.