CIPS Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply · Elective module

CIPS L5M8 Project and Change Management

CIPS L5M8 Project and Change Management is an elective module of the CIPS Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply, worth 6 credits. It is assessed by a 1.5-hour objective-response (multiple-choice) exam. It teaches you to assess the impact and implications of projects, examine approaches applied to the planning and management of projects and recognise the challenges associated with and methods to manage, achieve and maintain organisational change.

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What the L5M8 syllabus covers

The official L5M8 syllabus has 3 learning outcomes. Every Gradezup L5M8 paper is written to these outcomes and their assessment criteria.

1.0 Understand aspects of projects in organisations

  • 1.1
    Analyse aspects of projects in organisations
    Key topics (6)
    • The relationship between programmes and projects
    • Stakeholder identification, analysis, and involvement
    • Measures of safety, quality, cost and delivery
    • Success and failure of projects
    • Elements of projects
    • Work breakdown structure
  • 1.2
    Evaluate the impact on supply chain relationships of undertaking projects
    Key topics (5)
    • Supply chain networks for projects
    • Relationships with sub-contractors
    • Consortiums and joint ventures for projects
    • Traditional and contemporary relationships
    • Project partnering and strategic partnering
  • 1.3
    Analyse the resources for projects
    Key topics (6)
    • Resource loading and levelling
    • Multi project scheduling and resource allocation
    • Information technology systems for project management
    • Leading and managing projects
    • Critical chain methodology
    • Asset finance and the role of banks
  • 1.4
    Analyse the project life cycles of projects
    Key topics (7)
    • Perspectives on project life cycles
    • Project initiation
    • Organising projects and project implementation
    • Co-ordination in project management
    • Project control
    • Project closure
    • Project review

2.0 Understand the concept of organisational change and how it can be achieved

  • 2.1
    Analyse the types of organisational change
    Key topics (5)
    • Evolution
    • Adaption
    • Revolution
    • Reconstruction
    • Closed, contained and open-ended change
  • 2.2
    Analyse situations that lead to organisational change
    Key topics (7)
    • Organisational life cycle
    • SWOT and PEST analysis and factors
    • Internal drivers
    • Future trends and innovation
    • Multiple-cause diagrams and simultaneous change
    • Changes in management and structure
    • Cycle of competitive behaviour and reactive breakpoints
  • 2.3
    Evaluate organisational responses to change
    Key topics (5)
    • Environmental turbulence
    • Resistance to change
    • Cynicism and scepticism
    • The challenge of maintaining change
    • The change cycle – loss, doubt, discomfort, discovery, understanding, integration
  • 2.4
    Analyse methods to manage, achieve and maintain change
    Key topics (8)
    • Collaborate, communicate, direct, and coerce
    • Clarify goals
    • Refine methods and procedures
    • Empowerment and ownership
    • Incremental adjustment
    • Lean and value stream mapping
    • Monitor and maintain changes
    • The change spectrum – hard (difficult) vs. soft (messy) problems

3.0 Understand approaches to the planning and management of projects and change initiatives

  • 3.1
    Evaluate structures for corporate governance
    Key topics (5)
    • Project boards/executive
    • Project responsibility charting
    • The use of project initiation documents
    • Structures of project management such as project, functional and matrix
    • Project reporting
  • 3.2
    Analyse the common objectives for projects
    Key topics (6)
    • Identifying goals and objectives of projects
    • The balance between cost, quality, and time in projects
    • Technology project development
    • Building sustainability into major projects
    • Impact on the community for major projects
    • Communicating project objectives to the supply chain
  • 3.3
    Analyse approaches to the management of risks for projects
    Key topics (5)
    • Identifying assumptions and risks
    • Risk simulation
    • Risk registers
    • Risk accountability
    • The management of risk in supply chains
  • 3.4
    Critically compare methodologies for the planning of projects
    Key topics (3)
    • Sequencing activities
    • Network techniques including project evaluation and review techniques (PERT) and critical path method (CPM)
    • Gantt charts and baselines

From the official CIPS L5M8 syllabus.

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Frequently asked questions

  • What is CIPS L5M8?

    CIPS L5M8 Project and Change Management is an elective module of the CIPS Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply, worth 6 credits. It is assessed by a 1.5-hour objective-response (multiple-choice) exam. It teaches you to assess the impact and implications of projects, examine approaches applied to the planning and management of projects and recognise the challenges associated with and methods to manage, achieve and maintain organisational change.

  • Is L5M8 a core or elective module?

    L5M8 is an elective module of the CIPS Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply, worth 6 credits.

  • What type of exam is L5M8?

    L5M8 is assessed by a 1.5-hour objective-response exam made up of multiple-choice questions.

  • What is the L5M8 pass mark?

    You need 70% to pass an objective-response exam.

  • How many L5M8 practice papers are there?

    Gradezup has 18 timed L5M8 practice papers with 420+ questions, written to the official syllabus, each marked the moment you submit with an explanation for every answer. At least one paper is free to try, no payment needed.

  • Are these the official CIPS L5M8 past papers?

    No. CIPS does not publish its live exam papers. Gradezup papers are original exam-style practice papers written to the official L5M8 syllabus and modelled on the style and difficulty of the real exam.

  • What do I get when I enrol?

    18 timed practice papers, 420+ exam-standard questions in total, each one auto-marked the moment you submit, with a worked answer and the reasoning behind every option. Your scores are tracked across attempts so you can see what is improving.

  • Do I have to work through the papers in order?

    No. Every paper in CIPS L5M8 Project and Change Management unlocks as soon as you enrol, so you can start wherever you are weakest and retake any paper as often as you like.

  • How long do I have access?

    Access does not expire. Once you enrol the course stays on your account, including any papers added to it later.

  • Can I pause a paper and finish it later?

    Yes. Any paper can be paused mid-attempt and resumed from the same question, which makes short practice sessions workable.

  • What device do I need?

    Any device with a browser — desktop, tablet or phone. There is nothing to install and nothing to download.

  • How close are these to the real CIPS level 5 exam?

    Every paper is written against the current CIPS level 5 syllabus and mirrors the structure, question style and difficulty of the real exam, so practising here rehearses the exam itself rather than the topic in the abstract.

  • What is peer review?

    Written answers cannot be auto-marked, so this course lets you submit yours for review by other learners working the same papers — and review theirs. Marking someone else against the rubric is usually the fastest way to see what an examiner is looking for.

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