Your study options
Parallel can deliver this course for you in whichever medium suits you best. Whether you would like your delegates to come together in a face-to-face session or bring colleagues together virtually from all over the world, we can discuss options to suit you.
Virtual delivery
Our online learning options are very popular and are particularly useful for those clients whose delegates might be spread across the country or the world. Virtual classroom training doesn’t just involve sitting and listening to the trainer talk – delegates will be encouraged to participate in discussions and understand theoretical concepts through real-world examples.
Face-to-face delivery
We have more than 15 years’ experience delivering training courses for corporate clients. We can provide dedicated face-to-face training for your team to help them enhance their project management skills. Our corporate clients value bespoke project management training approaches which will ultimately help to improve project delivery and efficiency.
Course overview
Based on the Association for Project Management (APM) guidance for Planning and Project Control Managers and Engineers this course builds a structured and formalised approach to planning and controlling projects.
The APM’s guide, ‘Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk.’ sets out a comprehensive and practical guide to project control across a number of different industries. The guide set out in practical terms the recommended best practice for the implementation of project planning and control.
What topics are covered
Our standard course outline can be tailored to you. We can focus on key areas or remove topics that are not relevant to your organisation. You can find each of the topic areas listed below, but please contact us if you would like clarity on key areas or would like additional support in other areas. We use a range of exercises to help engage delegates and demonstrate project processes.
Planning techniques and approaches
We look at scope management, requirements management, statements of work, stakeholder management, breakdown structures and dependency management
Budgeting and cost control
We look at types of estimate, estimating methodologies, definition of budgetting, funding and budgetting, cost breakdown structures, cash flow, budget transfers
Scheduling practices
We look at steps in establishing a schedule and the different types of scheduling, project trackers, elements of a schedule, estimating durations, resource management, schedule interfacing and coding, and contingency and the use of buffers.
Communicating the schedule
We look at bar charts, line of balance and time chainage.
The supporting components of a schedule
We look at schedule narative including calendars, activity codes, calendars, shutdowns, possessions, permits and licences.
Schedule review
We look at the processes for approving and accepting schedules, Building Information Management (BIM) including the integration of the schedule with the design process, Agile including planning for the use of sprints, timeboxes and other agile processes
Monitoring and control
We look at baselines, re-planning, baselining, maintance and re-programming.
Performance reporting
We look at the drop line method, activity weeks, milestone monitoring, and cost value.
Cost control
We look at cost control process, performance management baseline, performance measurement.
Change control
We look at cost control process, adjusting the schedule to accommodate changes, communicating and reporting change.
Risk management
We look at risk management process, risk drawdown, quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA), Quantitative cost risk analysis (QCRA)
Forensic analysis, the purpose of forensic analysis, Methods including planned vs as built, impact method, record keeping, document management, handover and closeout and lessons learned.
Paul Naybour, CEng, MBA, BSc(Hons), MAPM, MIET, Business Development Director
The PPQ is a fascinating course to teach. We have had some excellent conversations about how we could apply project management to a case study. There is no right answer, and it’s very interesting to see the different approaches to the case study proposed by the different teams. It is especially useful for people to consider projects outside their day-to-day experience.
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Great course provider and great trainer Tyrone, have learnt so much in 5 weeks!
Highly recommended Parallel Project Training. Carmen is a fantastic trainer, she is able to guide you through the training in a friendly and welcome manner, she takes the qualification and puts it into bite size chunks to make it digestible over the 5 weeks. Thanks for all your help!
Would highly recommend using Parallel Project Training. They have supported me in my journey to achieving my APM PMQ.The presentations and podcasts that they provide are informative and easy to understand. Compared to other training providers they are also one of the cheapest around.
Excellent course and really well led by Tyrone. Great method of getting the key information across and really informative.
Amazing course and highly recommended. Carmen was very knowledgeable and easy to understand in order to pass the APM PMQ exam.
Excellent training delivered by Paul Naybour; would recommend to anyone pursuing APM qualifications
I can highly recommend Parallel Project training for the preparation of the APM certification. The trainer are highly skilled and take huge effort in working with each individual to prepare for the exam (Thank you Carmen for you huge support and going the extra mile!). Their online platform includes very helpful videos and their prep questions trains you well for the assessment criteria.
Absolute worth it!
Attended the APM PFQ training & certification – One of the best trainings I have been in, the instructor (Jan Underdown) was very knowledgeable on the subjects due to her immense real-life experience in project management, very articulate and took time to ensure everyone understood the concepts.
Parallel Project Training provide a well-structured course, enabling an in depth understanding of project management methodologies, structures and challenges to overcome. The tutor (Jan Underdown) balanced the course well and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The online service is exceptional!
Would highly recommend this course. Very well led, Jan skill fully balanced the breadth of syllabus in a pace that was manageable for the 5 week course.