ETCAL
Level 4
QN: 610/4636/X
Curriculum Active
ETCAL Level 4 Diploma in Project Controls
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by ETCAL. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1020 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 4
Awarding Body
ETCAL
Syllabus Units
6 Units
Guided Hours
1020 hrs
Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.
Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Baseline and Performance Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of capturing schedule baseline(s) and how these align to project goals and objectives
- Know the baseline process and the support to monitoring & control and performance management
- Understand good practice in setting baselines
- Know how schedules support project/P3 performance management
- Understand the developing budgets and baselines that meet the project (as well as P3) requirements
- Know how (including the means)
- project control supports the PM and the team through the baseline and performance management process
2
Estimating and Resource Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand and appreciate the breadth and depth of the estimating process
- Understand the importance of resource management process
- Understand other estimating and resource management techniques and their applicability
- Understand schedules that reflect the required deliverables, activities and resources with credible logically linked and cost / resource loaded activities
- Understand estimating updates, the effect on the schedule /resources, their maintenance and control, and supporting the change control process
- Know how estimating apply / support risk analysis and how to present and review estimates at different project phases
3
Fundamentals of Project Controls
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose of project controls and the support provided to the projects and the organisation
- Understand the breadth and depth of the supporting processes and structures
- Know how the different project control disciplines interface and integrate in the monitoring and control of projects
- Understand how the supporting software tools serve project controls and the wider P3 teams
- Understand the importance of project controls within the PMO
- Know the importance of the PCP and its link to the other major project management documentation
4
Introduction to and Principles of Project Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of
- M and the importance of setting up an organisation for project success
- Understand the importance of aligning
- M goals and objectives to organisational corporate goals
- Understand the project environment, the drivers of projects and the links to other project management processes
- Know the different phases of the project life cycle to control & deliver projects
- Understand the purpose/support project controls provides and their application in differing project contexts
- Understand the personal and business ethics
5
Scheduling and Cost Control
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the scheduling process/methodology (CPA), terminology, levels, specifications and relevant documentation (SMP)
- Understand of cost management practices
- Know other scheduling techniques and their applicability
- Know about code of accounts and control accounts in supporting project controls
- Understand schedule updates and supporting the change control process
- Understand how schedules integrate project data and support monitoring and control of P3
6
Work Based Project 1
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the project brief and the deliverables
- Understand how scheduling, cost control, estimating and resource management support the sample project
- Understand PCP and its link to the other major project management documentation
- Understand the importance of baselines in performance monitoring / management
- Know how to set up the project standard structures
- Know how project controls links to the governance and the PMO
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/4636/X
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- ETCAL
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2024