Advanced Project Management
This advanced project management course provides project managers with the advanced tools necessary for managing projects effectively, within the context of the challenges posed by a rapidly changing world, characterised by competing demands for resources and pressures from stakeholders in all directions.
This project management course will strengthen your leadership role in projects and further build your skills in project governance and planning. Effective engagement of project stakeholders will be addressed, including managing scope definition and dealing with the myriad of changes that can arise in bringing a project to successful completion. An overarching principle will include the utilisation of models to build effective teams for achieving project outcomes.
| Duration | Two sessions (16 hours in total) |
| Dates | Class code APM1 (2025) Class code APM2 (2025) Class code APM3 (2025) |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Venue | UTS City Campus |
| Cost | $1,365 (GST free) |
This course is designed for individuals who wish to expand their leadership skills with more advanced tools and techniques.
With the growing complexity of projects, policies and programs - it takes more than natural people skills to be a leader. Progress in your career and learn the skills/knowledge needed to be a leader in project management.
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Course content
This advanced project management course will cover the following content:
- The range of Project Management approaches available
- The suitability of each of the Project Management approaches for different types of projects
- Different business models and organisational structures for running projects
- Identifying the challenges along the project lifecycle
- Project governance throughout the project lifecycle
- Models and frameworks for building high performing project teams
- Managing the project sponsor and their project brief
- How to initiate and scope a project
- Planning the project
- Managing the trade-off across time, cost and quality
- Identifying risk appetite and managing project risk accordingly
- Procuring project resources, both human and material
- Managing project change and resolving project issues
- Controlling projects relative to each milestone
- Project review, progress reporting and performance reports
- Project close and post-evaluation/lessons learned.
Learning outcomes
At the completion of this advanced project course you will be able to:
- Use more advanced tools and techniques in project management for leading projects
- Respond to a project brief from a Project Sponsor
- Develop the project scope from the Project Sponsor’s brief and achieve Project Sponsor approval
- Initiate a project after gaining approval, including listing project deliverables, constraints, quality requirements and outcomes
- Effectively estimate timing, costs and resources required for more complex projects as part of your project plan
- Build a project management culture by motivating and successfully leading multi-functional project teams
- Manage change caused by variances against time schedules and cost budgets
- Conduct risk management activities and apply project scope controls
- Direct project communications in all directions by effectively managing upwards, sideways and in so doing, enabling a high performing project team
- Evaluate project outcomes and draw lessons from the project for continuous improvement.
Delivery style
This project management course will be delivered as an interactive workshop consisting of an instructor-led lecture, group and individual activities. This training approach allows participants to work through concepts introduced by the trainer in an application-focused teaching environment. Participants will challenge their understanding of the concepts and consider their application once back in their individual workplace.
About the presenters
John Le Mesurier has facilitated management programs in research institutions and government, both in Australia and the UK, since 2001. This includes delivering programs involving project and change management training to UK Health Trusts and government departments such as NSW Health, Transport NSW, NSW Treasury, NSW Department of Justice (formerly Attorney Generals Department), and the Victorian Library.
John applies the latest advanced practices in the fields of business, leadership, organisational psychology, analytics, and lean engineering to his educational delivery. He is multi-disciplinary, being degree qualified in business, psychology, and statistics. John’s experience includes senior corporate and general management roles in American, British, and Chinese multinationals, as well as consultancies for several leading UK and Irish management firms (Childs Davidson/ Canadean/ GlobalData plc). His consulting projects have covered advanced practice studies in strategy, sales & customer service processes, human resource models, communications, and organisational issues. With this background, he offers the most up-to-date short course delivery for equipping and developing today’s modern professionals in the world’s leading practices
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What others have said about this course
I didn’t quite know what to expect going into the course and had no prior knowledge but I feel like I’ve gained a lot of expertise and confidence to begin applying Project Management principles into my work. - Taylor B.
The presenter is a fantastic and knowledgeable facilitator who was able to bring all our unique experiences together into the class. He has years of experience and strategic advise I would definitely be interested in taking more of his courses as clearly you can see he has coaching experience.- Sanjana D.
Good environment, good content, great facilitator- Iana R.
Contact us
Need more information? For all course related enquiries, including future dates or in-house training enquiries email us or call +61 (2) 9514 7884.
This short course is presented by the university's Institute for Public Policy and Governance. Learn more about the Institute's advisory and research services, local government postgraduate courses and professional learning and development programs.
