Project Management Advanced Certificate Program

Description:
This Advanced Project Management programme provides organizations with skilled, professional, results-orientated managers who can meet the requirements of other functional managers within their organizations and who are able to complete projects on time, within budget, while meeting expectations. Six modules will equip participants with a practical, step-by-step approach to managing a project over its entire life cycle - from inception to close out.

Course Outline
  Project planning and control
  Project budgeting and finance
  Labour law and contracts
  ntegrated project management
  Supply chain management and marketing
  Managing and leading human resources


The objectives and syllabi of the modules are outlined below

Project planning and control
To discuss approaches to problem solving and decision making that can improve the effectiveness of individuals and organizations.
  Work breakdown structure
  Project planning
  Project scheduling
  Project budgeting
  Control risk management
  Principles of project control
  Project budgeting and finance


Project budgeting and finance
To provide participants with a range of analytical management accounting tools and techniques with which to identify and evaluate critical input mechanisms and also to interpret, implement and control project outputs from a financial perspective. Social, political and environmental aspects of feasibility analyses are also discussed.
  Feasibility of projects
  The costs of projects
  Cost estimations for projects
  Project cost control
  Financial aspects of tenders and quotes


Labour Law and contracts
The purpose of this module is to ensure that learners are equipped to determine whether the basics of contracts have been complied with and to ensure that certain aspects of the labour law are complied with.
  Basic principles of the law of contract
  Basic principles of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution
  Principles underlying mediation and arbitration as well as the hybrid processes of alternative dispute     resolution
  The Employment Equity Act
  The Basic Conditions of Employment Act
  The Labour Relations Act
  Occupational Health and Safety, Compensation for
  Occupational Injury and Diseases Act, and the
  Unemployment Insurance Act


Integrated project management
It will provide participants with an understanding of the principles of project management and the interrelationships of human resources, budgeting, contracts, negotiation, decision making and systems on managing a project.
  Project management as integrated management system
  The role of the project manager
  Project planning
  Project control


Supply chain management and marketing
The module aims to create an understanding of the value chain process in an organization and demonstrate the interactive relationships among marketing, operations and purchasing. It provides a wider perspective of marketing decisions including the close interface with other business functions and overall business strategy.
  Management of a supply base
  Relationship between the supply chain and marketing management
  Understanding the intricacies of marketing management
  Principles of productivity management in supply chain management


Managing and leading human resources
Participants are equipped with the necessary appreciation and understanding of, and insight into, the dynamics related to planning, attracting, utilizing, developing and leading employees in Canadian organizations.
  Strategic human resource management
  Diversity in the workplace
  Management and deployment of human resources through participation processes
  Managing employee performance from a strategic perspective and applying it in project management
  Managing and developing human resource both locally and internationally
  Identifying opportunities for change and transformation and the negotiation and implementation thereof.