Overview
The Diploma of Project Management has been created to acknowledge the growing importance of project management skills, and the ways in which they can empower employees within a dynamic business environment.
This course is ideal for those of you who manage, or are about to manage projects within the workplace.
This qualification is delivered online providing you with the flexibility to complete the training when and where you wish. You will be fully supported throughout the learning process by qualified trainers from Accredited Online Training (AOT), Australia's leading provider of online qualifications.
AOT provide exemplary participant support services, including:
- Individual over-the-phone inductions with a facilitator who will step you through the process and answer any queries;
- Unlimited mentoring and support services by qualified training via a toll free phone number or via email;
- Access to a virtual classroom that allows participants to communicate with a trainer and other participants in real time.
Please click here to download the Student Handbook. Once you have registered, you will be emailed all relevant details.
Course Content
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Integrate and balance the overall project management functions of scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and procurement, and align and track the project objectives to comply with organisational goals, strategies and objectives;
- Determine and control the end products of the project, and the processes to develop them;
- Manage time within projects;
- Identify, analyse and refine project costs to produce a budget, and use this budget as the principal mechanism to control project cost;
- Manage quality within projects;
- Undertake human resource management (HRM) within projects;
- Link people, ideas and information at all stages in the project life cycle;
- Manage risk within a project in order to avoid adverse effects on project outcomes;
- Undertake procurement and contract management within projects.
Components
BSBPMG501A Manage application of project integrative processes
BSBPMG502A Manage project scope
BSBPMG503A Manage project time
BSBPMG504A Manage project costs
BSBPMG505A Manage project quality
BSBPMG506A Manage project human resources
BSBPMG507A Manage project communications
BSBPMG508A Manage project risk
BSBPMG509A Manage project procurement
All assessments are conducted online and you will receive feedback from your assessor within 48 hours (except when there is a Public Holiday). Holistic or major assessments may take up to seven days. Assessments may include multiple choice and/or short answer questionnaires, portfolios, case studies, and in some cases video and/or workplace based evidence may also be required.
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Help is only a phone call away! Qualified trainers are available to take your calls during business hours (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Queensland time) on 1-300-726634. Or if you prefer email, please send your query to trainer@aot.edu.au. Whether you call or email, be sure to mention that you are completing your qualification through IPAA Queensland and Learning Seat. Please also enquire about our virtual classrooms.
Duration
Maximum nominal hours: 380
Full-time load: 12hrs/wk
Full-time duration: 31 weeks
Maximum 12 months access to online course (approx. 10-20 hours to complete each unit). This should include completing both the online training module and the associated formal assessment component.
How to gain your qualification faster?
Recognition of Prior learning (RPL) is the acknowledgement of the skills and knowledge that you have gained through previous studies, work and life experiences. If RPL is granted, this will mean that you will not have to complete the study or assessments for a unit or units of competency. Please read the student handbook for more information.