APMP
APMP is the qualification for anyone who has worked within project management for up to two years, such as project office personnel, team members, recently appointed project officers, or for anyone who has recently taken on project management responsibilities as part of their job.
The course provides a wide breadth of knowledge in all areas of Project Management, from strategic and commercial implications, to the technical, organisational, and people management skills required to participate effectively within a project team. The APMP qualification provides evidence of a thorough understanding of project management. Based upon the APM’s Body of Knowledge, the course covers all the techniques required to plan, control and implement successful projects.
APMP is the benchmark qualification for anyone embarking on a project management career, or looking to add project management to their portfolio of skills.
Attendees should gain a fully rounded appreciation of what is involved in managing a project: topics are explored in detail, with the emphasis on what needs to be done in running a project, such as the use of milestone charts and earned value analysis in reporting.
Attendees should, by learning 37 syllabus areas, gain a good understanding of what a project is and what a project manager’s job involves. This includes techniques such as risk assessment, planning and reporting and ‘softer’ elements of project management such as communication, motivation and teamwork.
This is an advanced course and it is advised that you have completed one of the following courses: Principles of Project Management, APM Introductory Certificate, ISEB Foundation Certificate in IT Project Management,
PRINCE2 Foundation or PRINCE2 Combined.
Or have extensive experience in project management and ideally have been working in a projects role for at least two years.
- Apply the tools and techniques suggested by the Association of Project Managers
- Contextualise a project in different environments, such as business as usual, programme and portfolio
- Use and apply a social roles model
- Use and apply a situational leadership model
- Approach conflict in project management in different ways, each suited to a given circumstance
- What is a Project? and Project Management?
- Defining ‘Programme Management’ and ‘Portfolio Management’
- Understand the benefits of managing groups of projects within an organisation
- The important factors of a project’s context and the effects of these context factors on a project
- Understand stakeholder management
- Project success criteria and success factors
- Learn suitable performance indicators to apply to project success factors
- The Project Management Plan, its purpose, content, authorship, readership and ownership
- The Project risk management process
- Identifying and evaluating risks and the risk management plan
- The role of quantitative analysis
- Common quality techniques
- Differences between quality planning, quality control, and quality assurance
- Health and Safety and Environment standards applicable to PM
- Main break down structures and their fundamental relationships
- Demonstrate the use of different techniques for scheduling projects
- Time schedules and resource allocation schedule
- Resource histograms and ‘S’ curves
- Cost management - methods & reasons
- Change control
- Identifying possible change control problems
- Understand how an earned value system works
- Communication methods
- How to structure a project cost estimate
- The different estimation methods
- Estimating the effort needed to execute a project
- Configuration management
- Defining the terms configuration control, configuration identification, configuration status accounting, configuration auditing
- Understanding the business case
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Payback periods
- Purchasing and contracting methods
- Outlining the principles of managing suppliers and contractors
- Project lifecycles
- Handover and closeout
- Project reviews
- Organisational roles
- Project life-cycle and the reasons for managing projects in them
- The hand-over and close-out process
- Post project review and its place in the project life-cycle
- Recognising the different types of project organisation and their merits
- The factors to be considered when setting up the project organisation and its administration and defining the different roles required in the management of projects
- Communicating methods
- Identifying the needs of teams
- The different types of teams and social roles needed in teams
- How to build and motivate a team
- Leadership qualities
- Conflict management
- Negotiation techniques
A 3 hour written exam is sat on the following week after the course - please check your joining instructions for date and time. You must answer 10 from the 16 questions covering 37 the syllabus topics.
Exam results will come directly to you from APM, find out more about results timescales here.
Please note: lunch is not provided on the exam day.
15 hours of pre-course preparation work is required, along with some evening work during the course. Your pre-course material will be sent to you 4-6 weeks before the start of the course.
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