Hong Kong Management Association

Advanced Certificate in Project Management for Project Managers and Engineers

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Course Information

Schedules
  • 22 Jan 2026 (Thu) - 2 Apr 2026 (Thu) 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Registration period
8 Dec 2025 (Mon) - 21 Jan 2026 (Wed)
Price
HKD 4,200
(HKMA Member: HK$3,700
Non-member: HK$4,200
Early bird discount:HK$400 less per person
(For those who enroll and pay 2 weeks before course
commencement date)
Group Discount: HK$200 each
(For two or more participants making payments on this
course together))
Study Mode
Duration
30 Hour(s)
Language
Cantonese, English
Location
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Course Overview

INTRODUCTION
In order to remain competitive in today’s turbulent and fast changing environment as well as meeting the need for expertise on project management, incumbent Project Managers and Engineers have to enhance their knowledge and sharpen their skills of adopting effective tools and techniques in running the project successfully.

This course will explore those essential tools and techniques on project practitioner’s perspective, in particular the soft andhard skills in different phases of the Project Development Cycle, which are being ignored or not functioning properly in most critical projects of various industries, such as construction, Information Technology, sales and services etc. It will highlight the most common and effective means to overcome the difficulties on running projects and the ways to put it on track. The course comprises theories, case studies, exercise and experience sharing that would certainly help Managers and Engineers to polish and improve their project management know-how and techniques in tackling day-to-day problems.

DESIGNED FOR

  • Incumbent Project Managers, project Engineers, ProjectTeam Members, project office supporters and those involved in project works, who want to enhance and refresh their knowledge and skills.
  • Potential or new Project Managers, who haven’t formal training and much experience in project management but need to embark on the career immediately, such as those in the construction and I.T. industries.
  • Goods and ser vices under takers for construc tion, manufacturing and production, healthcare service, creative services, environmental protection, who want to understand the project process of their clients and customers in the supply chain management.
  • Students and fresh graduates who want to take up career in project management.
  • All others who are interested in project management methodologies and implementation techniques that can help them in their daily job assignment.

AWARD OF CERTIFICATE
A participant who has:
1. maintained a minimum of 70% attendance of total lecture hours;
2. passed the mid-term exercise; and
3. passed the final project will be awarded a “Advanced Certificate in Project Management for Project Managers and Engineers”

LANGUAGE MEDIUM
The programme will be delivered in Cantonese, and the course material will be in English.

DATES AND TIME
Thursday (7:00 pm - 10:00 pm)
22, 29 January;
5, 12, 26 February;
5, 12, 19, 26 March;
2 April 2026

What You’ll Learn

CONTENTS
A Project Initiation, Design and Planning
1. Essence of Project Management
2. Project Development Cycle Interpretation
3. Key project management processes
4. Idea generation, visualization and formulation
5. Statement of Understanding (SOW) preparation for initiating the project
6. Project manual compliance for management approval
7. Establish ways to obtain management’s empowerment and authorization
8. Project approval criteria in financial aspects
9. Developing a adaptive hierarchical structure for project office

B Project Performance, Monitoring and Control
1. Developing the master baseline plan
2. Formulating a capital cost plan for a project
3. Simple WBS construction to calculate project costing
4. Constructing the Gantt Chart, PERT Chart for project planning
5. Cash flow project and analysis by Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Benefit Cost Ratio (B/C) using MS Excel.
6. Risk and uncertainty analysis and control
7. Decision making calculation on trade-off using decision matrix and assumption rating method
8. Construct the team responsibility matrix against the WBS
9. Effective time-cost monitoring and control by milestones setting, Earned Value Methodology (EVM) and trend analysis
10. Explore the project manager’s dilemma for conducting project meeting
11. Quality statistical control and essence of six sigma

C Project End Review and Leadership
1. Knowledge management for project office by ‘lesson learnt’ analysis.
2. Teamwork and leadership building
3. Personal time management



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