BMGT43690

Learning Outcomes:

On completing this module, you will be able to:
1. Demonstrate understanding of knowledge areas and concepts that are relevant to management of projects and project-based organizations
2. Apply a variety of project management tools, practices, and frameworks to solve complex practical challenges encountered in managing projects, including those related to risk management, planning (CPM, PERT, etc), and stakeholder management.
3. Analyze, compare, and contrast alternative courses of action in management of projects and project-based organizations
4. Demonstrate understanding of relevance and applicability of project management tools, concepts and theories in the financial context
5. Demonstrate skills of critical thinking and reflective practice as well as high level of oral and written communications skills and team work skills.

Please remember that the achievement of learning outcomes is contingent on following class policies and completing all work in good faith.

Indicative Module Content:

This module introduces students from any discipline to the project management life-cycle, with a focus on innovation- and technology-driven industries. By the end of this module you will understand and be able to execute the key activities required to ensure that a project is initiated, planned, managed and implemented successfully. You will be also become familiar with various project management tools and techniques that are relevant to commercial projects and their applications.

Indicative content will include the following:

1. What is Project Management
2. Project Teams and Leadership
3. Project Ethics
4. Project Feasibility & Stakeholder Management
5. Risk Management & Testing
6. Closing projects and why they might fail

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Module approaches to teaching and learning include: lectures, industry expert guest speakers, individual and group work, reflective learning, case-based learning, critical writing, blog posting, critical review of peers work, simulation.

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Assessment Strategy  

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Project Management: The Managerial Process by Clifford F. Gray & Erik W. Larson, 7th Edition, 2017, McGraw Hill, 978-1259666094
Project Management: The Managerial Process by Clifford F. Gray & Erik W. Larson, 8th Edition, 2020, McGraw Hill, 978-1260238860
Project Management: A Socio-Technical Approach by Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson and P. Sirisomboonsuk, 9th Edition, 2024, McGraw Hill, 9781265060886, https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/project-management-socio-technical-approach-2024-release-larson-gray/M9781265060886.htm

Other Recommended Books:
Critical Chain: A Business Novel by Eli Goldratt. Publisher: The North River Press, 1997.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by Roger Fisher and William
Ury.
Influence Without Authority (3rd Edition), by Allan Cohen and David Bradford.
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, by Keith Ferrazzi.
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, by Jeff Sutherland
PMBOK Guide 7th Edition (2021), by Project Management Institute.