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PMGT5205: Professional Project Practice
2024 unit information
Project Management is a key approach to achieving organisational objectives across multiple industries, including engineering, construction, IT, organisational change and transformation, including many others. Project Management is a rapidly growing profession, involving the coordinated definition and delivery of unique objectives within time, cost, and quality constraints. This unit provides students with an introduction to Project Management, including a review of the project lifecycle from conception, through delivery, to acceptance. In this unit, students will also gain an understanding of different project methodologies and the organisational context in which projects are managed.
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Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Project Management |
| Credit points | 6 |
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ENGG5205 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Describe the nature of projects and their organisational context
- LO2. Evaluate the implications of project lifecycles in different contexts and from different perspectives
- LO3. Analyse the trade-offs between competing constraints such as time, cost and resources.
- LO4. Recognise various stakeholder roles in projects and the need for stakeholder management.
- LO5. Recognise the broad principles and processes that guide project management practice.
- LO6. Recognise ethical issues and considerations facing project management professionals.
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