DIPLOMA OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT (BSB51407)
This qualification has been created to acknowledge the growing importance of project management skills, and the ways in which they can empower employees within a dynamic business environment.
This course is ideal for those of you who manage, or are about to manage projects within the workplace.
The Diploma of Project Management will provide you with the skills and knowledge to plan and manage projects that achieve the goals and objectives important to project managers and an organisation, regardless of its line of business or industry. It gives a working knowledge of project management as well as an understanding of methods, techniques and tools available to help you manage your projects more effectively.
Job Roles
Job roles and titles vary across different industry sectors. Possible job titles relevant to this qualification include:
• Project Leader
• Project Management Facilitator
• Project or Program Administrator.
Note: the minimum age of enrolment for this course is 18 years of age.
9 units are required for the qualification:
BSBPMG501A - Manage application of project integrative processes
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to integrate and balance the overall project management functions of scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and procurement; and to align and track the project objectives to comply with organisational goals, strategies and objectives.
- Manage integration of all functions of project management
- Coordinate internal and external environments
- Implement project activities throughout life cycle
BSBPMG502A - Manage project scope
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to determine and manage project outcomes. It covers project authorisation, developing a scope management plan, and managing the application of project scope controls.
- Conduct project authorisation activities
- Conduct project scope definition activities
- Manage application of scope controls
BSBPMG503A - Manage project time
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage time within projects. It covers determining and implementing the project schedule, and assessing time management outcomes.
- Determine project schedule
- Implement project schedule
- Assess time management outcomes
BSBPMG504A - Manage project costs
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify, analyse and refine project costs to produce a budget, and to use this budget as the principal mechanism to control project cost.
- Determine project costs
- Monitor and control project costs
- Conduct financial completion activities
BSBPMG505A - Manage project quality
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage quality within projects. It covers determining quality requirements, implementing quality assurance processes, and using review and evaluation to make quality improvements in current and future projects.
- Determine quality requirements
- Implement quality assurance processes
- Implement project quality improvements
BSBPMG506A - Manage project human resources
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to undertake human resource management (HRM) within projects. It involves planning for human resources, implementing staff training and development, and managing the project team and stakeholders.
- Implement human resource and stakeholder planning activities
- Implement staff training and development
- Manage the project team and stakeholders
BSBPMG507A - Manage project communications
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to link people, ideas and information at all stages in the project life cycle. Project communications management ensures the timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage and disposal of project information through formal structures and processes.
- Plan communications processes
- Manage project information
- Assess communications management outcomes
BSBPMG508A - Manage project risk
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage risk within a project to avoid adverse effects on project outcomes. It covers determining, monitoring and controlling project risks, and assessing risk management outcomes.
- Determine project risks
- Monitor and control project risks
- Assess risk management outcomes
BSBPMG509A - Manage project procurement
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to undertake procurement and contract management within projects. It covers determining procurement requirements, establishing agreed procurement processes, conducting contracting and procurement activities, and managing finalisation processes.
- Determine procurement requirements
- Establish agreed procurement processes
- Conduct contracting and procurement activities
- Implement contract and/or procurement
- Manage contract and procurement finalisation procedures.
