Program Overview

Professional Academy Diploma in Project Management

The Professional Academy Diploma in Project Management is a comprehensive course designed 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.

Course Details

• Course Code: PA01
• Category: Management Courses
• Study Options: Full-Time Bootcamp, Part-time, On Demand
• Location: Online, UCD Campus
• Assessment: 1 hour exam & 3,000 word written assignment

Course Modules

The course covers every aspect of project management, including:

1. Introduction & Project Fundamentals: Define a project, programme, and portfolio, and understand 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.
3. Project Integration: Introduction to project processes and how to identify and co-ordinate these processes and project management activities into process groups.
4. Scope Management: Define project and product scope and their differences, and understand how to collect requirements to create a work breakdown structure.
5. Schedule Management: Define project schedules and differentiate them from project plans, and learn how to control and remediate a schedule.
6. Cost Management: Differentiate between cost and schedule management, and learn to estimate and forecast costs and measure and correct variance.
7. Resource Management: Define and plan project resource management, and discover activity estimation techniques.
8. Communication Management: Develop a project communication plan, and identify and manage communication channels.
9. Risk Management: Understand the relationship between risk, opportunity, and threats, and plan for risk through qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
10. Stakeholder Management: Understand how to identify all project stakeholders, and plan stakeholder engagement using a stakeholder engagement assessment matrix.
11. Introduction to Agile Project Management Practices: The history of agile project management, including the Agile Manifesto, and understand iterative, predictive, incremental, and agile lifecycles.
12. Agile Practices Part 2 & Revision: Measuring progress in an agile environment, and organisation considerations when working in an agile environment.

Study Options

All formats cover the same course content, giving learners more choice in how they learn:

• Live Online: Live online learning with industry-expert lecturers, interact with lecturers and classmates, and the convenience of studying from home.
• On Campus: In-person learning with industry-expert lecturers, meet peers in a friendly environment, and access to state-of-the-art facilities.
• On Demand: 100% self-paced learning, average completion time of 6 weeks (up to 18 weeks), and optional live tutorial sessions.

Career Benefits

The Professional Academy Diploma in Project Management will give learners the project management skills necessary to advance in their career. With this certification, learners demonstrate that they can be trusted to ensure the success of high-power projects at an international level.

Assessment

The 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, which is generally around 3,000 words.

Benefits of a Professional Academy Diploma

UCD Professional Academy Diplomas and Certificates are designed to give careers an advantage. Developed in conjunction with industry thought leaders, courses teach practical, applied skills to support learners to achieve their career and business goals. Professional Academy Diplomas are suitable for career-minded learners wishing to advance their professional skills and prospects rather than their academic credentials.