Decision Making and Analysis in Projects

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Various theoretical and practical approaches to making project decisions;
• the significance of decision making skills for project managers;
• the features of project decisions and their impact on the selection of appropriate decision making and analysis methods;
• the value of decision making approaches in the acceptability of a decision’s outcome;
• the distinctions between the traditional and contemporary approaches to fundamentals of decision making in projects;
• the significance of decisions, specifically strategic and critical decisions, in project success or failure;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically analyse the approaches, methods and styles of analysing and making project decisions;
• select appropriate decision making approaches and involve stakeholders in decision process based on specific project situations;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply an analytical, reflective and critical approach to problem analysis and formulation;
• report and present ideas in writing

Formative

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

Peer Group Feedback

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Students will receive feedback from the lecturer and their peers during the class activities. Feedback will be provided via email and in meetings upon the student’s request.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

In-class activities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Students will receive feedback from the lecture and their peers during the class activities. Feedback will be provided via email and in meetings upon the student’s request
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.