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Foundation to professional level
Professional Diploma in Project Control
The complete toolkit of project control, from the first estimate to the final forecast, and the confidence to present it.
- Modules
- 9
- Study hours
- 120
- Format
- Self-paced online
- Credential
- Professional Diploma
What you will be able to do
- Build and challenge a cost estimate
- Create and maintain a reliable schedule
- Run earned value analysis and read the signals
- Produce an honest estimate at completion
- Present bad news with evidence and confidence
Who it is for
Project controllers, cost engineers, planners and PMO professionals with one to ten years of experience.
No prior certification needed. Useful across construction, infrastructure, energy, industry, IT and the public sector.
Curriculum
Nine modules
Learning outcomes
- Distinguish a project from routine operations and explain why projects fit poorly into conventional accounting and business control.
- Explain the evidence on project performance, including optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation, and its consequences for the design of controls.
- Describe the integrated control dimensions of a project and analyse how a change in one dimension affects the others.
- Evaluate the position, independence and ethical duties of the project controller in a given governance structure.
- Compare functional, matrix, projectised and project-based organisation models and identify the interfaces with the regular planning and control cycle.
- Apply the project control cycle to a status report and produce a forward-looking forecast rather than a backward-looking account.
- Relate the main international standards (PMBOK 8, AACE TCM, ISO 21502, APM BoK 8) to the structure of this programme.
FacultyEric Kemperman
How you learn
Video lessonsShort studio lessons from our faculty.
Course bookReading with worked examples from real projects.
Cases and exercisesApply every module to a realistic case.
Module testsCheck your understanding, retake when ready.
Assessment and credential
A diploma you can defend.
- Nine module tests and case assignments
- Final case report on a real or realistic project
- Online oral defence with the Examination Board
- Verifiable credential with unique number and QR code
Aligned with PMI, AACE, ISO and APM standards.
Professional Diploma in Project Controlis awarded toYour nameVerification no. IIPC-PD-26-000312
Pricing
One payment. 24 months of access.
Also availableAdvanced Diploma in Senior Project Control and GovernanceThe next step for senior controllers. 9 modules and a capstone control plan.
€3,999 · View programmeProfessional Diploma in Project Control€2,999 · self-paced
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