Taking a Project Management qualification in Work

Not much to this really, but I am determined to follow up all that’s in the list on my horribleness entry,

I left the local authority on 14 January 2016. However, before I left I had applied to go on a Foundation APMP Project Management Course. The application was agreed, but unfortunately the course I wanted to go on was fully booked, so they promised to put me on the next available one. This was done and it started on 11 January 2016 at ARU (university).

It was HARD. So much to learn and take in. It seemed that everyone else on the course was either already working in project management or was commissioner level or above. However, they were all lovely people and we formed a really good close-knit study group. Halfway through the course I found out that it was a Level 7 graduate course, not the foundation one I’d thought it was…. So no wonder it was hard work!

Anyway, I stuck with it and several weeks of intense study and writer’s cramp later, I took the exam. Another near miss, I failed by two points again! - but I learned a hell of a lot from the course and I learned a whole new heap of invaluable(?) acronyms and jargon.

Small comfort, but well over half of the people in my cohort also failed, so I was in good company.

By the way, I hate jargon and acronyms.

Last updated January 04, 2017