A perfectly executed schedule can still produce a project that delivers almost no value to the organisation behind it. Experienced project managers know this, technical execution alone produces "well-managed projects" that miss the point. What separates advanced practice is managing the political and technical content of a project together, not just the tasks on the plan.

Built for practitioners with at least five years of project management experience, this course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy pushes participants to think like senior professionals: aligning management decisions with project success, and making individual performance on the project more predictable rather than reactive.

Who Should Attend

• Senior executives, and project and programme managers.
• Members of project management offices (PMOs) and other project stakeholders.
• Those developing project management programmes, and project analysts.

What Participants Will Be Able to Do Afterwards

• Manage the project team and its human resources, and control quality across both inputs and outputs.
• Keep project risk within a workflow defined from the start, and improve how the project's scope statement is developed and reported.
• Manage project time efficiently without compromising on required quality.
• Build the project budget, cost structure, cash flow, and funding requirements, and plan procurement and acquisitions in the correct supply sequence.

Module 1: What Makes a Project "Advanced"

• Recognising the factors behind project success, and why managing both the political and technical content of a project is critical.
• Organising the project and managing advocacy groups and stakeholder interests around it.

Module 2: Scope, Schedule and Budget Under Senior Oversight

• Managing project scope at an advanced level.
• Controlling and managing the project schedule.
• Managing project cost, budget, and expenditure.

Module 3: Quality, Risk and Human Capital

• Planning and managing project quality.
• Managing project risk.
• Managing the human resources involved in the project.

Module 4: The Five Process Groups in Practice

• The five project management process groups: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closing.

Module 5: Investment Evaluation and Resource Strategy

• Business strategy as it applies to project decisions.
• Investment evaluation, and resource management.

Module 6: Applied Cases and Video-Based Scenarios

• Exercises and discussions based on real-life experience and video scenarios.
• Practical cases and applications that put the advanced approach into practice.