A lack of appropriate programme and project quality and risk management frameworks can have catastrophic effects on the successful delivery of projects. A 2017 Project Management Institute (PMI) study reports that in IT, a particularly notorious PM area, 14% or all projects failed, and a staggering 31% failed to meet stated outcomes and deliverables, 49% were late and 43% were over budget.

The Project Risk Management and Quality Assurance course focus is on providing project leaders and practitioners with the best international practice and leading-edge knowledge, skills, competencies, attributes and tools to significantly enhance project performance and assure success; with an emphasis placed upon a pragmatic project, business, risk and quality assurance approach.

The Project Risk and Quality Assurance Management webinar course is designed for project leaders and professional practitioners at all stages of their careers who wish to refresh or upskill; as well as new entrants to the profession who wish to develop new skills and competencies.

There are four main course objectives.

The first is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, attributes, confidence and competencies to be able to successfully and effectively lead and develop best practice and high-performance project risk cultures, frameworks and systems; and provide them with the tools and techniques to execute best practice project risk management.

The second is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, attributes, confidence and competencies to be able to successfully and effectively lead and develop best practice and high-performance project quality assurance cultures, frameworks and systems; and provide them with the tools and techniques to execute best practice quality assurance management.

The third objective is for participants to be introduced to and become familiar with ISO 3100 and ISO 21500 and the wider ISO 9001 and ISO standards context.

The final objective is for participants to be introduced to and become familiar with The UK’s APM and The PMI’s specialist project risk and quality assurance best practice and examination standards and knowledge.

By the end of this programme and course you will:

• Have enhanced project risk analysis, assessment and management knowledge, skills and competencies

• Have enhanced project quality assurance management knowledge, skills and competencies
• Have enhanced ISO 21500 and 31000 knowledge, skills and competencies
• Be able to demonstrate high-impact project risk and assurance management and leadership
• Be able to author, develop, drive and lead high-performance
• Risk management cultures, frameworks and systems
• Quality assurance cultures, frameworks and systems

• Be able to apply approaches, methodologies, models, practices and tools to successfully conduct:
  • Project risk analysis, assessment and management
  • Project quality assurance management

Key topics explored include:

Professional Award

Module 1 – Understanding Business and Quality Management Systems

Module 2 – Project Management – The Business and Commercial Context and Environment

Module 3 – Understanding Project Management Risk – Key Concepts, Issues and Challenges

Module 4 – Business and Project Management Systems – Key Concepts, Stages and Terminology

Module 5 – Project Risk Management – Key Concepts, Stages and Terminology

Module 6– Project Quality Assurance Management Systems and Kaizen – Key Concepts, Stages and Terminology

Module 7 – ISO 31000:2018 / ISO/IEC 31010:2009 / ISO Guide 73:2009 / ISO 21500:2012 – Key Concepts, Stages and Terminology

Module 8 – Project Risk Tools, Techniques and Approaches

Module 9 – Project QA Tools, Techniques and Approaches

Module 10 – Best Practice Project QA Frameworks, Planning, and Systems

Module 11- Best Practice Project QA Auditing

Professional Certificate

Module 12- Leading, Managing and Implementing High-Performance Project Risk Management Cultures

Module 13 – Best Practice Project Risk Management Frameworks, Planning and Systems

Advanced Professional Certificate

Module 14 – A Best Practice Approach to Metrics, Intelligence, Information and Data

Module 15 – Prevention Versus Inspection – Best Practice Control, Monitoring and Auditing Frameworks

Module 16 – Responsive Project Command, Control,  Communications, Collaboration and Information Reporting

You will walk away with:

• Best practice project risk and quality assurance management knowledge, skills, competencies and attributes

• An enhanced understanding of:
  • ISO project and quality assurance frameworks and standards
  • APM and PMI PM examination and project risk and quality assurance knowledge and standards

• The confidence, knowledge, skills to be able to author, build, develop, drive and lead high-performance:
  • Project risk management cultures
  • Project quality assurance cultures

• The techniques and tools to successfully and effectively:
  • Enhance project success through reduced risk and quality assurance

• Specialist and transferable professional skills
• Enhanced career and promotion prospects
• Continuous professional development credits
• A personalised professional and leadership action plan, which in conjunction with the course, critical personal reflection and ongoing professional development will allow you to further develop and put into practice what you have learnt

• Access to our library of resources
• Either a professional award, a professional certificate or an advanced professional certificate

We strongly recommend that in preparation for this course, participants take the time to complete the pre-course work; both so that they reap the fullest rewards and benefits of the courses, and so that it can be tailored and personalised where possible to their individual requirements.

• Think about what your learning priorities and objectives are
• Think about a possible leadership topic, issue, challenge or objective you have a special interest in for discussion in coaching, supervision / tutorials
• Think about what real-world organisational strategic, transformational and resilience objectives you have
• Think about what real-world organisational and business disruption, issues and challenges you face
• Think about how you can use the current climate as a catalyst for change.

Read the suggested literature below:

• https://www.apm.org.uk/media/10466/pram_web.pdf
• https://www.apm.org.uk/media/7586/prp-sample-chapter.pdf
• https://www.apm.org.uk/media/35530/assurance-toolkit-final-v2.pdf
• https://www.fep.up.pt/disciplinas/PGI914/Ref_topico3/ProjectRAM_APM.pdf
• https://www.pm4dev.com/resources/free-e-books/5-project-quality-management/file.html
• https://assets.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2014/02/KPMG-PALS-9-Project-risk-management.pdf
• https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pmwj36-Jul2015-Jainendrakumar-quality-management-advisory.pdf
• https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/quality-project-management-tools-7177

The investment fee encompasses:

• Face to face contact learning via webinar, online and collaborative technology
• A minimum number of whole class contact hours per days / week / month – subject to programme and course duration selected
• Micro group sessions – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Individual / pair / micro group supervisions / coaching / personal and operational consulting and action planning – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Core course materials – send by email and online
• Supplementary materials – send by email and online
• Complimentary materials – materials – send by email and online
• Access to documents and resources library for the webinar / programme / course duration
• Certificate