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UCD Professional Academy Diploma in Project Management

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Completing a Diploma in Project Management equips you with the knowledge and skills to take the next step in your exciting PM career.

Perfect for new and aspiring project managers, this full-time or part-time project management course provides the essential skills needed to successfully initiate, run, and close projects of all types. You’ll be inspired as you learn to successfully run Agile projects, manage resources, control costs and reduce risks. It will also give you the project management skills necessary to advance in your career and show that you can be trusted to ensure the success of high-power projects at an international level.

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Project Management

Delivered through lectures, group discussions, and individual and group exercises, this comprehensive course covers every aspect of project management – initiation, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and finally closing the project. With new projects often representing significant expense and high risk, project owners seek the assurance that practitioners have the knowledge, experience, and skills to bring high performing projects to successful completion.

Our industry-focused project management course is ideal for career-minded professionals from a wide range of backgrounds who wish to apply project management skills and methodology to their role.

Course Assessments

This course is assessed through a written project and a 1-hour online multiple choice exam at the end of the course. For the written project, learners will have two weeks following the end of the course to complete and submit the final assignment. The written project is generally around 3,000 words.

Certification

Your UCD Professional Academy Diploma will be issued electronically on a secure platform, with a link that you can share with employers and others wishing to verify your credentials. You can also add this certificate to your LinkedIn profile.

Flexible Delivery Options

The course is available either online or on campus. For those attending on campus, it is delivered part-time over 12 weeks. Online delivery offers two options: an intensive five-day format running from 9.00am to 4.00pm each day, Monday to Friday, or a part-time schedule over 12 weeks, with one three-hour session per week. For the part-time option, you can choose between morning sessions from 9.30am to 12.30pm or evening sessions from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, depending on what best suits your work commitments and personal needs.

Study Options

All formats cover the same course content. You now have more choice in how you learn with us:

On Demand

Begin today or tailor your learning to suit your schedule, at a pace that works best for you.

  • Create a learning schedule that fits your personal needs.
  • Complete within 18 weeks.
  • Attend optional live Q&A sessions.

Live Online

Choose between weekly classes, usually over 12 weeks, or a 5-day intensive bootcamp.

  • Live online learning with industry-expert lecturers
  • Interact with lecturers and classmates
  • Convenience of studying from home

On Campus

Choose weekly evening classes on UCD Belfield Campus, Dublin 4.

  • In-person learning with industry-expert lecturers
  • Meet peers in a friendly environment
  • Access to state-of-the-art facilities

Project Management Course Modules

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1. Introduction & Project Fundamentals

What to expect from the course and how it will be graded. Define a project, programme, and portfolio. Understand project lifecycles.

  • Introductions
  • Walkthrough of the course
  • Project and exam requirements
  • Definitions: project, programme, and portfolio
  • Project lifecycles

2. Project Environment & the Role of the Project Manager

Understand the different environments in which projects operate and the impact they have on project success. Define the role of the project manager and understand their sphere of influence.

  • Operations vs. projects
  • Project lifecycles and processes
  • Project phases and phase gates
  • Organisation structures and roles
  • Sphere of influence and competencies
  • Leadership vs. management

3. Project Integration

Introduction to project processes and how we identify and co-ordinate these processes and project management activities into process groups. Learn to identify interdependencies between project management knowledge areas.

  • Developing a project charter
  • Initial development of project plans
  • Directing and managing project work
  • Monitoring and controlling project work
  • Performing integrated change control
  • Closing a project or phase

4. Scope Management

Define project and product scope and their differences. Identify how scope interacts with areas such as cost and schedule. Understand how to collect requirements to create a work breakdown structure.

  • Product scope vs. project scope
  • Scope interactions
  • Scope planning
  • Collecting requirements
  • The work breakdown structure
  • Validating and controlling scope

5. Schedule Management

Define project schedules and differentiate them from project plans. Identify and sequence activities and estimate their duration. Discover scheduling tools and learn how to control and remediate a schedule.

  • Schedule planning
  • Defining and sequencing activities
  • Estimating activity durations
  • Developing a schedule using tools
  • Controlling a schedule

6. Cost Management

Differentiate between cost and schedule management. Learn to estimate and forecast costs and measure and correct variance. Understand contingency and management reserves, earned and planned value, and preventing cost variance.

  • Cost vs. schedule management
  • Planning cost management
  • Estimating and forecasting costs
  • Contingency vs. management reserves
  • Earned and planned value management
  • Measuring and interpreting cost variance

7. Resource Management

Define and plan project resource management. Discover activity estimation techniques. Understand the project manager’s responsibility for acquiring, developing, managing, and controlling resources.

  • Planning resource management
  • Estimating activities
  • Acquiring resources
  • Developing, managing, and controlling resources

8. Communication Management

Develop a project communication plan. Identify and manage communication channels. Understand how to manage and control project communications.

  • Communication plan management
  • Communication channels
  • Managing and controlling communications

9. Risk Management

Understand the relationship between risk, opportunity, and threats. Identify risk factors and attitudes. Plan for risk through qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. Document risk responses and monitor and control risks.

  • Risk, opportunity, and threats
  • Risk factors and attitudes
  • Risk planning and identification
  • Qualitative vs quantitative risk analysis
  • Risk responses
  • Monitoring and controlling risk

10. Stakeholder Management

Understand how to identify all project stakeholders. Plan stakeholder engagement using a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix. Create a stakeholder register.

  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Planning stakeholder engagement
  • Stakeholder register
  • Stakeholder engagement assessment matrix

11. Introduction to Agile Project Management Practices

The history of agile project management, including the Agile Manifesto. Contrast definable work with high uncertainty work. Understand iterative, predictive, incremental, and agile lifecycles. Face delivery challenges in an agile environment.

  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Definable and high uncertainty work
  • Iterative, predictive, incremental, and agile lifecycles
  • Creating an agile environment
  • Delivering in an agile environment

12. Agile Practices Part 2 & Revision

Measuring progress in an agile environment. Organisation considerations when working in an agile environment. Revision for final exam.

  • Delivering in an agile environment (cont.)
  • Revision for final exam

Admission Requirements

  • Learners must be 18 years or older.
  • Previous training, study and/or professional experience in a related field is recommended.
  • For non-native speakers of English, a language proficiency equivalent to IELTS 6.5 overall (or equivalent) is required.

Please note that all UCD Professional Academy courses are conducted in English. Prospective learners for whom English is not a native language are welcome to undertake Professional Academy courses. It is the responsibility of the learner that their proficiency in English is adequate for the course to participate and complete assignments successfully.

Disabilities

UCD Professional Academy welcomes learners with disabilities and makes every effort to provide facilities and support, where possible. We ask that learners who may need additional support or facilities during their course inform us at the time of application.

Code of Conduct

All staff and learners of the Academy are expected to abide by its Code of Conduct https://www.ucd.ie/professionalacademy/learner_handbook/ . In the case of serious breaches, learners may not be permitted to attend the remainder of their course, and no refund will be given.

Add to your personal skill set and add more value to your organisation by completing a UCD Professional Academy Diploma in Project Management.