Candidates are required to be assessed to show that they have met all the learning outcomes in each unit of the syllabus. The unit assessment should extend into areas beyond the context in which the candidate normally works, to ensure their ability to perform in a variety of programme or project contexts.

Unit DPM06 – Manage people – is assessed by an assignment set and marked externally by the Chartered Management Institute.

In order to gain the full award, candidates also need to complete an integrative assessment, which enables them to demonstrate how they have brought together and applied all the learning within the syllabus to a real workplace programme or project.

This is in the form of a reflective case study of a programme or project for which they have been either solely responsible or have taken a significant role in its management, control and direction.

The reflective case study should build up a theoretical picture of how the project/programme looked and developed, and should include:

• An outline of the business context within which the programme/project was
  
• operating
  
• details of the organisational and resource structure within which it was delivered, showing the candidate’s own role within the structure
  
• a demonstration of how programme/project initiation was approached, including the plan for the programme/project
  
• a demonstration of how the candidate handled the following aspects of the programme/project
  
• setting-up the management organisation structure
  
• monitoring and controlling the work
  
• delivering acceptable quality
  
• risk analysis, identification and management
  
• any contractual issues
  
• configuration management and issue/change control
  
• the people and stakeholder management issues encountered and resolved and

• what the candidate would, on reflection, do differently to achieve a better programme/project outcome.

This integrative assessment is to based on a real project/programme activity from the context within which the candidate works, but the reflective analysis should draw on the range of learning with which the candidate has engaged during the development programme.

Candidates who have been granted full or partial exemption from any unit should ensure that their integrative assessment fully explores their capability and experience in the units for which they have received exemption.