Introduction

M1.1 — Scope & Work Breakdown Structures establishes the project’s scope backbone. It explains how to translate authorised scope into a practical Work Breakdown Structure that represents the whole undertaking without gaps or duplication, defines clear work-package boundaries and provides a stable basis for planning, estimating, assigning responsibility, measuring progress and controlling change.

M1.2 — Coding & Control Structures builds the information architecture around that scope backbone. It introduces the complementary structures and identifiers needed to view the same project by cost, organisation, resources, contracts, suppliers, locations and other management dimensions, showing how controlled mappings and reconciliations create multiple useful views without duplicating the underlying data.

M1.3 — Integrated Baselines brings scope, schedule, budget, responsibility, assumptions and progress rules together into one coherent authorised reference. It teaches the learner how to test whether discipline baselines describe the same project, distinguish the approved baseline from the latest forecast, challenge credibility before approval and preserve the reference so that subsequent performance and authorised change remain visible.

M1.4 — Progress Measurement defines how evidence of completed work is converted into a credible statement of physical accomplishment. It covers the selection of proportionate measurement methods, objective completion criteria, weighted aggregation, reporting cut-offs and the treatment of rework, while maintaining a clear distinction between genuine progress, elapsed time, money spent and the forecast of work remaining.

M1.5 — Data Quality, Integration & Traceability completes the module by ensuring that the resulting control information can be trusted. It explains how to define authoritative sources, common identifiers, data ownership, cut-offs, validation, reconciliation, lineage and historical snapshots so that management information can be traced to evidence, reproduced by another competent practitioner and used confidently for decision-making.