Practical skills

Construction of Project Baseline Plan and Project Management Plan.

Manage experience from previous projects to mitigate project execution failures.

Contract negotiation and management.

Organisation of effective kick off reviews, including how to assure that a common view is shared of and within the project.

Use of time and cost scorecard to identify execution versus management issues during project execution.

Control of project execution with allocated resources.

Direction of projects, including how to assure project compliance.

Organisation and operation of configuration management during and after project.

Organise a project portfolio and related quality system.

Perform both qualitative and quantitative analysis and management.

Development of research protocols.

Application of statistical methods for research.