Are you a project manager looking to take the next step in leading projects?

IS THIS COURSE RIGHT FOR YOU?

If you're familiar with project lifecycle basics and are now aiming to move beyond foundational execution, towards strategic planning, negotiation, and risk-informed decision-making, this course is for you. It builds on the fundamentals to equip you with advanced, actionable skills for managing complex project components in the NSW public sector context.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Strategically engage and manage stakeholders—mapping influence, tailoring communication, and using stakeholder insights to inform project decisions.
• Refine requirements and define precise scope boundaries, ensuring clarity across deliverables, constraints, and stakeholder expectations.
• Construct actionable and realistic project schedules, using techniques such as sequencing, critical path analysis, and buffer inclusion.
• Anticipate, assess, and mitigate project risks, applying practical tools to quantify and plan responses to uncertainty.
• Integrate stakeholder, scope, schedule, and risk planning cohesively for more resilient and adaptive project execution.

Topics covered:

• Strategic Stakeholder Engagement
• Requirements Gathering & Scope Definition
• Scheduling Techniques
• Integrated Risk Management

Target Audience:

• Public sector professionals beyond beginner level—those who have completed a fundamentals course or have some project exposure.
• aligning with the NSW Public Sector Capability Adept and Advanced levels
• Roles might include: project leads, project coordinators, team leaders, policy or program officers taking on higher responsibility, and emerging project managers.
• Participants ready to step into more strategic project roles, with a focus on influencing outcomes across stakeholder groups, defining nuanced project scope, managing timeline complexities, and proactively handling risk.

NSW Public Sector Commission Capability Framework

Project Management Advanced is for people at the Intermediate to Adept levels and you will develop the following capabilities:

• Business enablers: Project management
• Results: Deliver results
• Results: Plan and prioritise
• Badge will be provided on completion of the course