APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
Advance your project management skills with APM PMQ. The APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) course builds a solid foundation in project management principles, helping you develop key skills and a deeper understanding of effective practices. Ideal for experienced project managers, it sharpens your awareness, strengthens your approach, and equips you to manage projects with confidence and clarity.
Description
Learning objectives
You’ll gain an understanding of:
- Project lifecycle stages, governance structures and sustainability considerations
- The business case as the project’s justification in terms of benefits, costs, and risks
- Transition management, benefits management, stakeholder engagement and communication management
- Leadership, team management and conflict resolution
- Diversity, ethics, compliance, and professionalism
- Requirements management, quality management, and solutions development
- Integrated planning, schedule and resource management, and change control
- Risk and issue management, budgeting, and cost control
What you'll learn
The APM Project Management Qualification is perfect for project professionals who want to build their knowledge of all key areas of project management. It helps you manage everything from small tasks to large-scale projects, showing how all the pieces fit together in a strategic and commercial context.
Project frameworks and governance
Planning and resource management
The APM PMQ course gives you the tools to master planning and resource management. You’ll learn how to develop an integrated project plan, bringing together multiple processes into a single cohesive strategy. Schedule management will help you create effective, time-based plans that balance activities and resources, while resource management shows you how to identify, schedule, and oversee the resources your project needs. You’ll also dive into budgeting and cost control, gaining the skills to estimate costs, agree budgets, and track spending to maintain financial oversight throughout your projects.
Delivery and quality assurance
You will build expertise in delivering projects and ensuring quality at every step. You’ll learn procurement strategies to secure the resources you need while maximising value. The course will guide you through quality management, helping you ensure your project outputs meet agreed standards. Risk and issue management will give you the confidence to identify potential challenges and opportunities and plan your responses effectively.
Through the PMQ course, you’ll also explore change control processes, enabling you to manage requests and adjustments in a structured way. With assurance and review techniques, you’ll gain the ability to assess your project’s status and demonstrate its ongoing viability.
People, leadership, and stakeholder management
There is a key focus on the skills you need to manage people and stakeholders effectively. You’ll learn how to engage and communicate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve your project goals. Leadership training will help you empower and inspire your team, while team management techniques will guide you in building and sustaining high-performing groups. You’ll develop strategies for conflict resolution, enabling you to address and resolve disputes to keep your project on track.
The course also explores diversity and inclusion, showing you how to foster a positive, inclusive environment that values all perspectives. Finally, you’ll strengthen your understanding of ethics, compliance, and professionalism, ensuring your work remains moral, legal, and socially responsible.
Prerequisites
Who it’s for
Experienced project professionals looking to develop their careers.