RMIT University
Project Management for Professionals
- Delivery: Online
- Duration: Six weeks
- Course Type: Short Course
- Total Price: $1,900
Manage complex projects and evolving systems of work by developing essential project management and human skills that enable students to confidently motivate, communicate and deliver business outcomes.
Course overview
The Project Management for Professionals course will provide students with effective skills to motivate, communicate and deliver business outcomes in complex situations. Through this course, students will adopt a toolbox of skills that can be applied and adapted to a variety of contexts.
With a focus on adaptive and human skills, students will learn how to successfully initiate and mobilise a project team. Students will also gain capabilities in negotiation and stakeholder communication to deliver optimal outcomes, as well as how to apply the fundamentals of scope, risk, budget, quality and time management to their own projects.
With the opportunity to bring their own project, students can directly apply their skill set to a final professional or personal project that showcases their knowledge to potential and existing employers. In the context of a contemporary complex environment, this course develops both people skills and technical capability.
Key facts
13th July, 2026
10th August, 2026
What you will study
Evolving project management methods and skills in complex and changing systems
- Learn about the evolution of project management and systems thinking in the modern world of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity).
- Understand the value of project management and its difference from product management.
- Be introduced to major methodologies of project management, including waterfall, Agile, Scrum, PMBOK, Lean, Kanban and PRINCE2.
Milestone: Demonstrate how the waterfall method could be applied to your project.
What you will learn
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Critically analyse the professional capabilities required to manage projects in complex and changing settings, including motivation, communication and influencing, stakeholder management and conflict resolution.
- Apply fundamental project management techniques to a project, such as identifying key stakeholders, initiation, scope, budget, timeline and quality and risk management.
- Present a report on the stages and business outcomes of a project to key stakeholders that justifies outputs and outcomes.
Who should attend
The Project Management for Professionals course is ideal for:
- Early and mid-career professionals in all business functions looking to gain transferable project management skills required to be seconded or developed to manage projects as part of their role.
- Early career business professionals looking to develop the skills in project management fundamentals required to transition into a project support role. You may be from a variety of industries and backgrounds in a range of different company sizes, including but not limited to government, education, support or administration.
Who You Will Learn From
Kayt Dylan Edwards
Subject Matter Expert
A seasoned ‘old-school’ delivery professional, in 2007 Kayt joined Lonely Planet, supporting one of Australia’s foundational agile transformations – shifting a dyed-in-the-wool print publisher to digital. Today, she is one of Australia’s most seasoned agile coaches, with a firm philosophy that agility is developed at individual, team and corporate levels through coaching and doing. In 2019, she is circumnavigating Australia, as seems to be the thing to do.
Nigel Dalton
Subject Matter Expert
As part of his role at ThoughtWorks, Nigel Dalton equips organisations with the tools and thinking to accelerate their performance as modern digital businesses. His work helps organisations build resilient, thriving online-to-offline (O2O) operations in a post-customer, more human-centric world.
Monty Qasim
Expert Industry Mentor
Monty Qasim is a strategic leader with a proven ability to plan and implement small and large-scale projects, aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains. Expertise in building bridges between technology and business to deliver optimal outcomes, pragmatically articulating complex commercial issues.
Diego Atterbury
Subject Matter Expert
Diego works as a Project Manager in the Telco industry. He has been with his current organisation for more than 7 years. During this time, he has held a variety of Delivery, Program and Project Management roles across Construction, IT, Software Deployment, Digital Transformation and Workforce Strategy. Diego is a generic Project Management professional with experience utilising PMBOK, Agile, Prince2 and Waterfall methodologies. Furthermore, his work experiences are supplemented with extensive theoretical studies in Business, Education and yes… Project Management.
Jaksha Shah
Expert Industry Mentor
Jaksha is a Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks with a wealth of experience gathered by doing product delivery, coaching clients on ways of working and advising organisations on delivery frameworks , helping deliver complex programmes of work, enterprise portfolio management using Lean and agile principles across multiple industries.
Raja Gopal
Expert Industry Mentor
Raja is a strategic project leader with extensive global experience delivering transformative initiatives across government and multinational sectors. He excels in aligning strategic delivery with business goals, fostering innovation and uplifting capability. As a mentor, Raja guides emerging professionals and shapes practice-based learning to drive excellence and sustainable outcomes.
Neeraj Sahu
Expert Industry Mentor
With over 18 years of technology expertise, my focus and interests lie in the realm of product management and leadership, notably with organisations like Xero, NAB, ANZ, HSBC, BT, Telstra, and NTT. I specialize in developing revenue-maximizing products and services, supported by a background in IT, an MBA, and ongoing doctoral studies in digital strategy at RMIT