Dissertation
PM PDP runs 2 dissertation routes - the traditional research route and a reflective practice route. The Dissertation involves delegates being able to complete an extensive project dealing with a work-based problem over a 12 month period.
This is based on the traditional approach to researching a problem whereby a number of hypotheses questions / aims / objectives are formulated from a specific research question or problem. Delegates must then collate information from published literature pertinent to the stated aims and objectives. Investigation of these questions by following relevant quantitative and analytical techniques is then undertaken, data is collected, analysed and reported. Delegates must then critically integrate and evaluate the data in the light of other published work and make reasonable conclusions from the data and background information that is relevant to the original aims and objectives.
This follows a different approach. Delegates are encouraged to focus on developing their project management knowledge by critically reflecting on and thinking about their own abilities and their own individual learning and personal development as project managers.