1. Content
   1. Project foundations & golden rule of PM
   2. Strategic Project Management
   3. Programme Management
   4. Project Risk Management
   5. Week 1
      1. Introduction to project management
         1. What is a project
         2. What is project management
         3. Project life-cycle
         4. Golden rule of project management
   6. Week 2
      1. Introduction to project planning
         1. Project foundations
         2. Project scope
         3. Scope creep
   7. Week 3
      1. Introduction to PERT diagram
         1. Activity on node
         2. Activity on arc
         3. Project crashing
      2. Project Planning
         1. Range of planning beyond techinque
         2. Risk in planning
         3. Quality management in projects
         4. Effort planning
   8. Week 4
      1. Introduction to project monitoring
         1. Why monitoring
         2. Links between monitoring, control & planning
         3. Tools/techniques
            1. Reporting
            2. Highlights
            3. Special interest reports
            4. Exception report
            5. Meetings
            6. Data Collection
            7. EVA charts
   9. Week 5
      1. Introduction to project control
         1. Types of control
            1. go/no go
            2. Cybernetic
            3. post
         2. Stewardship of resources
         3. Experience based PM
            1. Lesson learnt logs/reports
   10. Week 6
       1. Real World Projects
   11. Week 7
       1. Introduction to project risk
          1. Risks in project management
          2. Risk management in project management
   12. Week 8
       1. Strategic project management
          1. The link between strategy & Projects/programmes
          2. Project implementation
          3. Project selection models & project alignment
   13. Week 9
       1. Strategic Project Management II
          1. How strategies are developed
          2. Strategic tools
          3. Project & programme alignment
   14. Week 10
       1. Introduction to programme management
          1. What is programme management?
          2. Features of programmes
          3. Relationships Between projects, programmes & portfolios
          4. Benefits
   15. Week 11
       1. Programme management in International context
   16. Week 12
       1. Achieving successful project & programmes
2. Concepts
   1. Definitions within project management
   2. Definitions within programme/portfolio management
   3. Strategic PM
   4. Change management
   5. Project monitoring
   6. Project Planning
   7. Project control
   8. Project foundations
   9. Risk Management
   10. Programme management - benefits
   11. Benefits management