Description:

This four-day course is accredited by the Association for Project Management (APM).

The APMP Certification (APMP) course has been running in Hong Kong and the region since 1998 as the Complete Project Management Course (CPMC). This has been the foundation course of our programme to provide the project management community with easy access to the training necessary to facilitate successful project management.

This course provides an introduction to many of the topics we separately run as skill courses providing a continuous training programme if required. These skills include risk management, scheduling practice, quality, value management, contract, procurement and financial awareness, earned value, negotiation, conflict management and many others to provide a strong foundation for managing projects successfully.

The Association for Project Management's syllabus for the APMP Certification programme has 32 major topics which are covered fully in this course. The APMP qualification is internationally recognised by the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

This course leads directly to the APMP examination and qualification. Indeed, it is intended that the examination be taken soon after the course is completed. The examination is arranged to suit each delegate. This examination can also be arranged overseas if this is more convenient for any delegate.

This is a very intensive course which includes many exercises and group activities to consolidate the learning and to make the APMP qualification as accessible as possible. The course is most often run in-house to provide more flexibility on timing, more focus on your projects and more convenience for taking the examination. We will be happy to talk to you regarding a programme for your project staff or alternatively you are welcome to attend our public courses held regularly throughout the year.

An Attendance Certificate will be provided at the end of this course.

Vital Benefits:

Because of the risks associated with managing change today, clients seek validation of project management understanding and compliance. This course provides the following vital benefits:

• A full professional project management course leading to the internationally recognised APMP qualification
• An excellent overview of the project management process as seen by the major accreditation bodies
• A clear understanding of the language of project management

Objectives:

People working on projects are invariably busy people with limited time. Training therefore must be of a reasonable duration. In this course, it is our objectives to:

• Deliver this important course within the shortest effective time
• Provide every opportunity to successfully prepare for the APMP exam and to provide the exam to suit each person's timetable
• Provide the clearest understanding of the management of change
• Provide a template of successful project management against which you can judge your current practices
• Provide an understanding of why some projects succeed and why others may fail, and help you avoid making the mistakes others have made before you, in other words make you and your company more successful

Topics:

This course adheres in detail to the Association for Project Management's APMP Syllabus. There are 32 topics within this syllabus and all are covered within this course. The APMP examination will cover any 16 topics. In brief the topics are:

• Understanding of project, programme and portfolio management, project context, sponsorship and the project office and how they interrelate
• Project success and benefit, stakeholder analysis, quality, value, risk and health safety and environment management
• Scope, scheduling, resources, cost and value, change, earned value, information and issue management
• Requirements management, estimating and configuration management
• Business case, procurement, life cycles, handover and reviews, organisation structures and roles, methods and procedures and project management governance
• Communication, teamwork, leadership, conflict management and negotiation

Who to Attend:

This important topic affects everyone who has an involvement in projects. We would recommend the following project people would find this course valuable:

• All those who are managing, administering or monitoring projects from the client's organisation, the project team, the professional services and the supply chain currently working on a project or soon to start work on a new project
• Those who want to gain the APMP qualification or to simply improve their understanding
• Those who want to make project management a career and are looking for a good place to start
• Those who need a qualification quickly to help validate their experience