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Short course - Skills Bootcamp in Project Management

The Skills Bootcamp in Project Management takes learners with little or no project management experience through the fundamentals of project management. Taught workshops provide essential knowledge and skills, and a workplace project allows an opportunity to practise those skills and reflect on learning.

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Course Overview

Project Management skills are in high demand across all sectors. This course introduces project management processes, tools and techniques and gives you the opportunity to try these out in your current workplace. You will learn about managing a project from inception to closedown, including planning and scheduling, quality management, budgeting and estimating, and working with stakeholders.

The University of Cumbria is one of the leading providers of project management education in the UK and the course is delivered through our award winning Project Academy.

If you are 19 or over, living and working in Cumbria and have your employer’s support to develop your project management skills, this 12-week course is for you.

On this course you will...

  • Describe and apply a range of project management processes, tools and techniques
  • Explain how to conceive, plan and implement a project and apply these techniques to a personal project
  • Apply leadership and teamwork techniques to foster project success
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Course Structure

What you will learn

The course includes a series of one-day taught workshops over 13 weeks focusing on different aspects of project management, and a relevant work-based project. Workshop sessions will cover:

Compulsory modules
  • Project Management and the Project Lifecycle
  • Project governance and the project context
  • Project requirements and scope development
  • Assuring quality
  • Planning project delivery and creating schedules
  • Costing, budgeting, and estimating
  • Stakeholder engagement and management, communication, negotiation and conflict
  • PM in Context; Change control & configuration, Working, leading and delivering through teams and effective leadership
  • Closing a project and handover
Compulsory modules

You will also undertake a project in your workplace enabling you to apply your learning to a real situation. You will identify a potential project with benefits to your organisation and agree with the management on how to initiate, plan and execute it. Followed by a presentation on the project undertaken during the programme . This project could include initiatives such as:

  • Researching the market for a new product or service idea
  • Improving a business or production process
  • Rebranding a product or service
  • Planning an Arts event
  • Arranging a visitor event in Cumbria
  • Association for Project Management Project Management Fundamentals Qualification (APM PFQ)
    At the end of the Bootcamp learners will attend a revision workshop to prepare for the APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (APM PFQ) exam to be taken upon completion of the Bootcamp

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