Overview 

This standard is about developing and agreeing project parameters and monitoring and controlling that work to ensure that desired creative outputs of appropriate quality are achieved whilst remaining within budgetary and resource constraints.  It includes prioritizing activities, leading others, contingency planning and being responsive to change.


Performance Criteria

You must be able to:

  1. identify quality expectations for creative outputs
  2. identify  budgets, timescales and resources for the project clarify ambiguities 
  3. estimate equipment, materials and people required to meet the creative and technical demands of the project
  4. identify key milestones and plan how to achieve them
  5. secure people with the required skills for the work
  6. provide plans and seek feedback from the people involved
  7. confirm and agree arrangements for dealing with contingencies 
  8. use information to compare progress against plans and schedules
  9. monitor activities and progress to help identify deviations
  10. communicate changes to previously agreed plans as required 
  11. suggest and agree solutions, when there are deviations from schedule and plans


Knowledge and understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. how to find out about requirements including changes to previous plans
  2. approaches to quality assurance and what is required for the project 
  3. the roles and responsibilities of the people involved and who the decision makers are
  4. the importance of understanding interdependencies and improving the quality of early dialogue
  5. the information required by different people at each stage
  6. the equipment required and any specific requirements relating to it
  7. the criteria and methods for assessing quantity and specification of materials
  8. ways to evaluate the performance of materials
  9. how and when to identify specialist skills, equipment or materials and where to source them
  10. the contracting and insurance requirements for the work and the processes to follow 
  11. sources of information on progress
  12. how to monitor and check activities and progress
  13. ways of reaching agreement on roles and responsibilities
  14. how to identify actual and potential deviations from schedules and plans
  15. when to take control from others to resolve issues
  16. communication methods
  17. the kinds of contingencies which may arise and ways of dealing with them
  18. how to identify and evaluate the benefits and disadvantages of different ways cutting costs and saving time
  19. common causes of delays and how these may be avoided or accommodated
  20. expected processes and formats for presenting information and their interface with industry standard applications
  21. legislation and regulations including employment, health and safety, intellectual property rights and waivers and moral rights