Project Performance International

Project Performance International offers Public Training in the following areas:

• Systems Engineering
• Requirements Analysis & Specification Writing
• Software Engineering
• Project Management
• and other fields...

All publicly available courses are listed below. Alternatively, you can search our entire course schedule by date, discipline, or worldwide location for online registration.

Should you benefit from training of ten or more employees from your organisation, on-site training is available.

Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering for Technology-Based Projects & Product Developments (5 days)

Addresses systems engineering as it is understood and practised by leading acquirer, developer and supplier organisations worldwide. This training provides an integrated approach to the set of management and technical disciplines which combine to optimise system effectiveness, enhance project success and reduce risk. Ways of achieving corporate objectives, eg. time to market, cost of goods sold, product quality, military objectives, are a constant theme throughout the course.

Cognitive Systems Engineering (5 days)

This five-day course covers two complementary frameworks for the analysis and design of cognitive work. The basic tools of each are described and then demonstrated, to illustrate how they can be applied to enhance human systems integration within systems development and acquisition. Experiential design exercises give delegates practical experience with these techniques.

OCD & CONOPS in Capability Development (5 days)

A 5-day immersion in the development of military capability, with a focus on problem definition, Operational Concept Description (OCD - how the capability, and each element of its solution, will be used), and concept of operations (CONOPS - how the military outcome is to be achieved). The course requires no background or previous experience in CONOPS development.

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Requirements Analysis & Specification Writing

Requirements Analysis & Specification Writing (5 days)

Requirements analysis and specification writing are sciences practised by many, mastered by surprisingly few. And yet, the payoff from achieving excellence in these areas is large. The two aspects, Requirements Analysis and Specification Writing, are treated as separate but related topics, each in a course of two and three days duration. The two courses are complementary, with little overlap. They may therefore be taken together, or taken individually. The two courses comprise Project Performance International's popular 5-day public course in Requirements Analysis and Specification Writing. The course is delivered worldwide.

Requirements Analysis (3 days)

Addresses the techniques used to capture, validate and gain a complete understanding of requirements communicated at all stages of the system life cycle.

Specification Writing (2 days)

Addresses in detail the conversion of individual requirements into effective requirements specifications. The course focuses on the structure and language of requirements specification.

Requirements Engineering - English First Language (4 days)

Establishes fundamental principles and relationships as they relate to requirements (plus MOEs, etc), with emphasis on how requirements come into existence: the relationship between requirements and design. The course then addresses the techniques used to capture, validate and gain a complete understanding of requirements, both initially, and at all subsequent stages of a system life cycle.

Requirements Engineering - English Second Language (5 days)

A language-independent equivalent of Project Performance International's 5-day public course in Requirements Analysis and Specification Writing (one day of this latter course focuses on English language requirements specification).

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Software Engineering

Software Engineering - A Systems Approach (5 days)

A 5-day immersion in the development of software systems with a focus on leading software engineering development and management processes and practices. The course approaches software development from a Systems Engineering perspective (an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to the engineering of system solutions which aims to capture stakeholder needs and objectives and to transform these into a holistic, life-cycle balanced system solution which both satisfies the minimum requirements of the stakeholders, and optimises overall solution effectiveness according to the values of the stakeholders.)

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Project Management

PRINCE2™ Project Management Methodology (3 days)

Will introduce delegates to the PRINCE2™ project management methodology, demonstrating how to apply the PRINCE2™ principles and methodology to improve the success of projects under their control. The course will also prepare the delegate to undertake the PRINCE Australia-administered PRINCE2™ Foundation Examination (included in the course) and Practitioner Examination (available separately).

PRINCE2™ Practitioner Revision and Examination

This one-day event provides the opportunity to sit the PRINCE Australia - supervised Practitioner Examination. This event is intended for people who have received prior PRINCE 2 training (whether from Project Performance International, Rational Management Pty Ltd or elsewhere), have passed the Foundation Examination, and wish to sit the Practitioner Examination.

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Other

Advanced Tender Evaluation (4 days)

Designed to provide the students with a solid grounding in both the philosophy of procurement by tender, together with tender evaluation techniques, in depth. Built around a series of practical simulation exercises and workshops, this course will upon completion enable students to design, prepare for, and carry out a formal tender evaluation, participate in tender evaluation working groups, and prepare source evaluation reports.