BCS IS Project Management Foundation Certificate - Virtual Classroom

Who is this course suitable for?  

There are no prerequisites to enrol onto this course, however it would be beneficial to have a basic working knowledge of IT.

Career Opportunities

Typically, graduates of this course will be working in, or working towards a career as a:

•    IT Project Coordinator - £29k
•    IT Project Analyst - £46k
•    IT Project Manager Business Analyst - £47k
•    IT Project Manager - £51k

(Source: Glassdoor)

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Syllabus

Projects and Project Work

•    The definition of projects, as opposed to other types of work.
•    Terms of reference for a project.
•    The purpose of project planning and control.
•    The typical activities in a system development life-cycle.
•    System and project life cycles.
•    Variations on the conventional project life cycle, such as the use of prototypes or an iterative approach (e.g. the creation and testing of a series of versions of a product that converge on the final deliverable) or incremental approach (i.e. the phased creation and delivery of a series of products to users).

Project Planning

Note: candidates are expected to understand both the product and activity-based approaches to planning

•    Project deliverables and intermediate products
•    Work and product breakdowns
•    Product definitions (including the identification of derived from, and component of relationships between products)
•    Relationship between products and activities in a project
•    Check points and milestones
•    Lapsed time and effort required for activities
•    Activity networks (using ‘activity on node’ notation)
•    Calculation of earliest and latest start and end dates of activities and resulting float

Monitoring and Control

•    The project control life cycle: including planning, monitoring achievement, identifying variances, taking corrective action
•    The nature of, and the purposes for which, information is gathered
•    Collecting progress information
•    Timesheets
•    Team progress meetings
•    Error and change reports, etc.
•    Presenting progress information
•    Content of progress reports

Change Control and Configuration Management

•    Reasons for change and configuration management
•    Change control procedures
•    Role of change control boards
•    Generation of change requests
•    Change request evaluation (e.g. its impact on the business case)
•    Change request authorisation
•    Configuration management

Quality

•    Definitions of the term ‘quality’ e.g. ‘fitness for purpose’
•    Quality control versus quality assurance
•    Defining quality: definition and measurement
•    Detection of defects during the project life cycle
•    Quality procedures: entry, process and exit requirements
•    Defect removal processes, including testing and reviews

Estimating

•    Effects of over and under-estimating
•    Effort versus duration; relationship between effort and cost
•    Estimates versus targets
•    Use of expert judgement (advantages and disadvantages)
•    The Delphi approach
•    Top-down estimating
•    Identification of size drivers (e.g. function points etc)

Risk

•    Definition of the term ‘risk’; components of risk: risk events (or triggers), probability, impact
•    Ways of categorising risk, e.g. business versus project
•    Identification and prioritisation of risk
•    Assessment of risk exposure (i.e. combining consideration of potential damage and probability of loss)
•    Risk responses and actions: risk prevention, reduction, acceptance, transfer and contingency planning

Project Communications and Project Organisation

•    Relationship between programmes and projects
•    Identifying stakeholders and their concerns
•    The project sponsor
•    Establishment of the project authority (e.g. project board, steering committee etc.)
•    Membership of project board/steering committee
•    Roles and responsibilities of project board, project manager, stage manager, team leader
•    Desirable characteristics of project manager
•    Role of project support office

Exam Details

Type - Multiple choice

Number of questions – 40

Duration - 60 Minutes

Supervised - Yes

Open Book - No

Pass Mark – 26/40 (65%)