Project Management

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Organize, present and communicate your professional and academic views in written. C2.communicate effectively (written).
• Appreciate the complexity of actual business world.
• Develop analytical and critical approaches to management and leadership.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Develop in-depth appreciation of various factors influencing project success and failure.
• Gain knowledge of tools and techniques for organizing, managing and leading people, organizational and functional aspects of projects.
• Understand the people, organizational and functional aspects of projects and their strategic management and leadership.
• Gain the knowledge of traditional and contemporary approaches to management of projects.
• Appreciate the specific nature of projects and its implications on managing projects.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically analyse projects’ context, potential dynamics and challenges regardless of their industry.
• Appreciate the sources of complexities in actual projects and project environments.
• Analyse project situations and dynamics considering the pluralistic nature of projects and project management.

Introduction to Project Management

Contemporary vs. traditional project management

Project context

Stakeholder Management.

Project Governance

Project Stages

Tools, Techniques and approaches to management of project stages

Project success and failure

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

Formative

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

Class Exercise

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Short student activities in small groups during the lectures will be followed by questions and answers. Students are strongly encouraged to ask questions and engage throughout the lecture to receive feedback. Hence, plenty of opportunities for receiving feedback from lecturer or their peers.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

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.