APM Project Management Qualification (APM PMQ)

What is the APM Project Management Qualification?

The Project Management Qualification (PMQ) (SCQF Level 7), is a knowledge-based qualification developed by APM, the chartered body for the project profession. Candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how these elements interact and how their project fits into their strategic and commercial environment. PMQ is an internationally recognised qualification.

What is APM?

Association for Project Management (APM) was formed in 1972 in the UK to support project professionals through its qualification and membership scheme. APM has over 30,000 individual members and more than 500 organisations participating in their Corporate Partnership Programme, making APM the largest professional body for project management in Europe.

This course is aligned with the APM Competence Framework. The framework outlines the competencies required for effective project, programme, portfolio management, and project management office (PMO) operations.

Why consider an APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) Course? Increased Employment Opportunities & Better Salary Rewards

Project Management methods and frameworks are evolving faster than ever. This is occuring in order to keep pace with the growing needs of public and private organisations to deliver better project outcomes and benefits. This rapid evolution has expressed itself in recent years in the following ways:-

• Greater demand for formally qualified Project Managers.
• Rising Salaries for qualified Project Management Professionals.

The Project Management Qualification (PMQ) (SCQF Level 7), is a knowledge-based qualification developed by APM, the chartered body for the project profession. Candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how these elements interact and how their project fits into their strategic and commercial environment. PMQ is an internationally recognised qualification.

Who is this course for?

The APM Project Management Qualification is aimed at those wishing to achieve a broad level of project management knowledge sufficient to participate in projects from individual assignments through to large capital projects.

Applicants typically have some pre-existing project management knowledge, and it is the ideal next step for anyone holding the APM Project Fundamentals (PFQ) qualification.

Pre-requisite

There are no pre-requisites for this qualification however candidates should possess an appropriate level of project management experience (2 years is recommended). An APM Project Fundamentals qualification is helpful, but not required.

Learning objective

By the end of the course, you should:

• Life cycles: Understand the distinct life cycle stages used to structure and organise a project.
• Governance arrangements: Understand governance structures as a framework of authority and accountability for the delivery of a project, which align with organisational practice.
• Sustainability: Understand sustainability as balancing the environmental, social, economic and administrative considerations that will impact a project.
• Business case: Understand a business case as the justification for the initiation, investment and/or continuation of a project in terms of benefits, costs and risks.
• Procurement: Understand procurement as securing the provision of resources, choosing strategies for obtaining best value from supply chains.
• Reviews: Understand reviews as a way of gathering information to provide an assessment on the status of a project and the ongoing viability of the work.
• Assurance: Understand assurance as the ability to provide confidence to the governance board that a project is on track to deliver objectives.
• Transition management: Understand transition management as integration of the outputs of a project into business-as-usual.
• Benefits management: Understand benefits management as monitoring of benefits realization throughout a project.
• Stakeholder engagement and communication management: Understand stakeholder engagement and communication management as the ability to work with people internally and externally to achieve intended outcomes.
• Conflict resolution: Understand conflict resolution as the ability to identify and address differences between individuals and/or interest groups.
• Leadership: Understand leadership as ways to empower and inspire others to deliver successful projects.
• Team management: Understand team management as the ability to work with team members to create and sustain teams.
• Diversity & inclusion: Understand diversity and inclusion as the ability to build and maintain an inclusive environment that embraces a diverse culture.
• Ethics, compliance & professionalism: Understand ethics, compliance and professionalism as the ability to work consistently in a moral, legal and socially responsible manner.
• Requirements management: Understand requirements management as the ability to capture and monitor the requirements of a project.
• Solutions development: Understand solutions development as the ability to determine the optimal solution to satisfy agreed requirements.
• Quality management: Understand quality management as the ability to ensure that outputs are delivered in accordance with requirements.
• Integrated planning: Understand integrated planning as the ability to incorporate multiple plans and processes into an integrated project management plan.
• Schedule management: Understand schedule management as the ability to undertake time-based planning with an emphasis on activities and resource.
• Resource management: Understand resource management as the ability to identify and schedule the required internal and external resources.
• Budgeting and cost control: Understand budgeting and cost control as the ability to estimate costs, develop and agree budgets and monitor actual costs against forecast costs.
• Risk and issue management: Understand risk and issue management as the ability to identify and monitor risks (threats and opportunities); plan responses to those risks and respond to issues.
• Change control: Understand change control as the ability to manage variations and change requests in a controlled way.

What is included on the course?

• Get 12 Months Unlimited Access.
• APM PMQ E-Learning.
• Over 40 hours of additional learning resources to help support exam preparation.
• Access to up to 12 x 3-hour online revision workshops. Minimum requirement, delegates must attend 8 sessions in a 12-month period.

This course is equivalent to SCQF Level 7.

Duration and Time Limit

The APM Project Management Qualification course takes approximately 50 – 70 hours to complete, although there is no time limit and you can do it in your own time and in stages.

Exam(s) / assessment(s) not included in price, and must be purchased separately.

The APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) is designed for candidates with project management experience. There is also a specifically designed route to APM PMQ for current PRINCE2® Practitioners.

There are no pre-requisites for this qualification however candidates should possess an appropriate level of project management experience (2 years is recommended). An APM Project Fundamentals qualification is helpful, but not required.