AM 305 – Planning and Decision-Making
NZ$385.00 excl GST
Last updated: April 2025
Make better, more confident decisions about your assets – from day-to-day planning to long-term investment.
AM 305 gives you practical tools to support sound, evidence-based decision-making across the asset lifecycle. You’ll learn how to analyse problems, evaluate options, assess risk, and build investment cases that stand up to scrutiny – whether you’re managing renewals or planning capital works.
Through a realistic case study you’ll step through real-world planning challenges and apply decision-making methods that balance cost, risk, performance, and community outcomes.
AM 305 is completed entirely online, allowing you to learn at your own pace, in your own time. You can begin as soon as you enrol.
Description
Overview
AM 305 – Planning and Decision-Making builds your capability to make well-grounded, evidence-based decisions across the lifecycle of infrastructure assets.
You’ll explore practical methods and techniques to support both current asset needs and future investment planning – from identifying problems through to prioritising capital works.
Throughout the course, a realistic case study guides your learning. You’ll apply decision-making techniques in context, exploring how asset managers define problems, assess options, manage risk, and build a strong case for investment.
You’ll learn how to apply both financial and non-financial analysis techniques, define decision-making criteria, develop works programmes, and forecast whole-of-life costs – all grounded in best practice guidance from the Āpōpō Guide and the ISO 55000 suite of standards.
By the end of AM 305 – Planning and Decision-Making you will be able to:
- Analyse current asset problems or opportunities
- Evaluate and select appropriate processes for making decisions about assets
- Identify and forecast risk mitigation strategies
- Determine how asset management activities and projects will be resourced
- Choose appropriate techniques to progress planned capital works
- Understand methods of forecasting the cost of an asset over the course of its whole life.
On completion, you will be awarded a digital badge which can be saved and shared.
This course is a collaboration between Āpōpō and Just Add Lime.
Who Should Attend
Those responsible for planning and making decisions about infrastructure assets in an organisation.
Typical Attendees Include
- Engineers
- Project managers
- Planners
- Strategy staff
- Executives
- Consultants
- Auditors
Recommended Prior Learning or Equivalent Experience
- An understanding of the content of the following badges: AM 101, AM 202, AM 203 and AM 204.
Outcomes
This course will develop your understanding of decision-making methodology, risk management, long term investment planning and financial management.
Content
- Making a Decision
- Decision Methods
- Risk-Based Decision Making
- Operational Planning
- Capital Investment Planning
- Financial Planning
Learning Material
- Text, images, video
- Formative assessment
- Activities
- Case studies
- Summative assessment
