BSB50820
Diploma of Project Management

Whether you're a professional project manager or simply a professional with projects to manage, our flagship course provides the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to set you up for success.

A critical skillset and respected qualification

Project management is a core skillset and a booming industry. Current research points to competent project managers as being “critical enablers for delivering strategic outcomes for organisations.” (KPMG, 2018)

Focussing on strategic (systems) thinking, adaptive management and leadership, the program supports rapid capability uplift across all aspects project management. It also provides a full suite of generic project management tools and templates, applicable to any industry or technical domain. 

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During facilitated training sessions, participants alternate between learning modern project management concepts, processes, tools and techniques, and applying these on a case study project in small teams. In the weeks following each training module, learners apply their project management knowledge and skills on a work-based project. Our dedicated team of assessors provide guidance, support and detailed feedback following each of the four Module Assessments, aligned with the project life cycle. 

Module 1: Initiating and Planning Projects

• Develop an understanding of what project management is and have your existing knowledge formalised.

• Initiating a project including linking to corporate strategy and long-term outcomes

• Developing a practival project management plan that gets everyone on the same page

• Define scope and define critial path of a project and develop a scheule

• How to collaborate and get buy-in from team members and stakeholders

• Identify, prioritise and learn practical technicales to engage and influence stakeholders

Module 2: Building and Leading Teams

• Emotional intelligence

• Rapport, trust and relationships

• Interpersonal communication, empathy, cultural intelligence 

• Leadership, team building and motivation 

• Political acumen, persuasion and influence

Module 3: Monitoring and Controlling Projects

• Executing work in accordance with the project plan

• Measuring performance using Earned Value Management

• Developing Project Status Reports, governance and information flow

• Quality control 

• Manage emerging risks and issues.

Module 4: Closing and Evaluating Projects

• How to review and evaluate project performance

• Capturing lessons learned in the Closure Report 

• Mencken Madness simulation to bring it all together in a fun and informative capstone assessment

Course Details

Duration

Learners complete four Module Assessments over a period of typically 9-12 months, depending on their individual circumstances and time constraints. This is about half of the standard timeframe for a Diploma qualification due to our pre-requisite that learners have at least 1 year of experience working on projects.

Flexible delivery modes

In-person mode features 6 days of classroom-based training (2 x 3-day blocks). Online mode features 12 half-day facilitated online workshops. Both modes are supported by our on-demand video learning platform Ecademy (ecademy.net.au) and online support from our dedicated team of assessors.

Structure

The four training and assessment modules follow the lifecycle of a project:

  - Module 1: Initiating and Planning Projects

  - Module 2: Building and Leading Teams

  - Module 3: Monitoring and Controlling Projects

  - Module 4: Closing and Evaluating Projects 

Qualification awarded by

Elemental Projects (Australia) Pty Ltd - a Registered Training Organisation (RTO code 45615)

Units of competency

BSBPMG530 Manage project scope (core)

BSBPMG531 Manage project time (core)

BSBPMG532 Manage project quality (core)

BSBPMG533 Manage project cost (core)

BSBPMG534 Manage project human resources (core)

BSBPMG535 Manage project information and communication (core)

BSBPMG536 Manage project risk (core)

BSBPMG540 Manage project integration (core)

BSBPMG538 Manage project stakeholder engagement (elective)

BSBPMG539 Manage project governance (elective)

BSBTWK502 Manage team effectiveness (elective)

BSBPEF502 Develop and use emotional intelligence (elective)

Entry requirements

To be eligible to enrol in this course, learners must:

  - Be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident

  - Complete a Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) check to determine LLN support needs

  - Have at least one-year experience working in a project context, managing some part of a project