Project Management

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Tools and techniques for managing project stages; and factors influencing project success or failure.
• traditional and contemporary approaches to management of projects;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• communicate effectively (written).
• apply an analytical and critical approach to management;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• understand and critically analyse the project’s context, potential dynamics and challenges regardless of its industry.
• critically analyse project situations and dynamics considering the pluralistic nature of projects and project management;

Introduction to Project Management

Goal Directed Project Management

Project Definition

Stakeholder Management.

Product Based Planning

Risk Management

Project Governance

Managing Change

Commercial Aspects of Project Management

Teaching and learning methods

The knowledge and appreciation of the theoretical bases will be developed through the lectures and complemented through directed reading and formative exercises.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

International Journal of Project Management. Journal

Project Management Journal. Journal

Textbooks

Maylor, H (2010). Project Management. UK: Prentice Hall.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External