Certified Project Director (CPD)

A Certified Project Director (CPD) has the proven ability to lead multiple, complex projects, programs and portfolios of work. They make high-level autonomous decisions and use initiative and judgement to navigate a diverse range of activities that span functions, organizations, regions and cultures.

Certified Project Master (CPM)

A Certified Project Master (CPM) is a project leader and innovator. They have been independently assessed against a broad range of project management competencies, and can apply a suite of specialized technical and managerial skills to initiate, plan, execute and evaluate their own project work and the work of others.

Certified Project Trainer (CPT)

A Certified Project Trainer (CPT) is a proven project expert who communicates knowledge, facilitates learning and inspires the next generation of project leaders. They bring coursework to life with a worldly repertoire of experiences and stories, while applying high standards of professionalism in all aspects of training and assessment.

Certified Project Professional (CPP)

A Certified Project Professional (CPP) applies contemporary project management tools, techniques and methods to the unique context of each project they undertake. They identify and respond proactively to project risks, opportunities and issues, keeping stakeholders fully informed throughout.

Certified Project Officer (CPO)

A Certified Project Officer (CPO) is a fundamental contributor to any project team. They have been examined on at least 30 hours of project management study, and can employ project management knowledge in a wide variety of settings, taking responsibility for their own work performance.

Testing Events

Over four (4) collaborative days, you will leverage your latent project experience, connecting a common frame of reference, common purpose and common-sense approach to the cohesive delivery and oversight of professional and personal projects.

OPEN Module 1: Project Initiation

A project doesn’t start with a plan, a charter, or even a business case; it starts with an idea. Project initiation refers to all the pre-project work needed to progress your eureka moment into a fully-fledged project. As it involves defining the opportunity, testing the merits of project options, and getting the necessary approvals, it requires extensive stakeholder […]

OPEN Module 2: Project Planning

In project management, we sometimes refer to the triple constraints as a trilemma – kind of a three-way dilemma – for it is often said that given stakeholder expectations of fast delivery (time), low cost, and every possible feature (scope), you can only ever realistically expect to achieve two out of three. And even that is often ambitious! Whether or not […]

OPEN Module 3: Project Delivery and Close

At its heart, the project management plan is little more than a series of time, cost, and scope benchmarks that you can use to monitor performance. The risk management process overlays on this a series of hypothetical controls. In this Module, we will introduce tools, techniques, and processes you can apply to monitor and manage your projects. Be warned, […]