Project Management

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Key issues in effective use of project management techniques;
• Key issues associated with leading project based organisations, such as project / stakeholder relationships, power, partners and contracts.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Write effectively for business purposes.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse key project management issues through critical engagement with practitioner and academic sources;
• Undertake an analysis of an existing project in order to identify key strengths and areas for improvement;

• The distinction between programmes and projects
• Relevance of the project life cycle and variants
• Project governance
• Standard project management methodologies (such as Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK)
• Project risk

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Lectures from internal and external specialists and practitioners
• Staff led discussion seminars
• Case studies/problem solving activities

Learning activities include

• Group interactions
• Library based research
• Independent reading from a recommended bibliography
• Private study
• An individual project

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Maylor, H. (2010). Project Management. Harlow: Pearson.

Kerzner, H. (2013). Project Management: case studies. Chichester: Wiley.

Lock, D. (2013). Project Management. Farnham: Gower.

Pinto, J. K. (2013). Project Management: achieving competitive advantage. Harlow: Pearson.

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