This unit gives students exposure to project management in an operational context. Students undertake a semester long project planning assignment. By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate their ability to plan the following aspects of project management: Project Scope Management, Project Time, Cost and Quality, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management, Project Risk Management, and Project Procurement Management.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Initiate, plan, monitor, control, and close a business project as part of a project team;
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of prominent project management techniques (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, and SCRUM);
- Apply activity planning and control techniques including breakdown structures, network diagrams, precedence diagramming, and the critical path method;
- Apply cost control and estimation techniques including budgeting, function point analysis, and earned value management;
- Apply scope control techniques including net present value, payback analysis, and weighted scoring methods;
- Understand the importance and nature of team roles, responsibilities, communication, and reporting within the project context;
- Demonstrate the role and importance of ethics, fairness, and integrity in the project team context.
Work Integrated Learning
Projects
Students will be engaged in projects designed with and for organisational partners.
Indicative Assessment
- Typical assessment may include, but is not restricted to: exams, assignments, quizzes, presentations and other assessment as appropriate. Further details will be made available via the Class Summary. (30) [LO 1,2,3]
- A research-based project, a capstone experience and/or a piece of scholarship. Further details will be made available via the Class Summary. (70) [LO 1,2,3]
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Workload
Students taking this course are expected to commit 130 hours to completing the work. For semester length offerings this will typically include 3 hours per week in class and at least 7 hours a week on average (excluding non-teaching weeks) on course reading, research, writing and assignment work.
Inherent Requirements
This course has no inherent requirements.
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
Information about the prescribed textbook (if any) will be made available via the Class Summary.
Majors
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $4860 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2023 | $6180 |
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Second Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7002 | 24 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Aug 2023 | 27 Oct 2023 | In Person | View |
