Project Organisation will explore the Portfolio, Program, and Project environment, and how communication is key to ensuring outcomes across all levels of an organisation. This will involve understanding the way that projects are selected and initiated, and how project outcomes are realised.
Using a theoretical lens, the way organisations set up and manage their project environments will be explored, with the aim to evaluate the benefits and limitations in the way that decision frameworks, committees, and communication techniques are implemented.
The aim for this course is to equip students with the skills required to manage the project organisations needed to produce quality outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- identify key project organisational roles
- define the organisational components for project management
- discuss key communication strategies for project management
- discuss strengths and weaknesses of project management initiation methods
- implement portfolio and program management principles
- appraise methods to determine the success of projects
- apply theoretical frameworks to identify challenges in project organisations and develop evidence-based solutions for effective project management.
Indicative Assessment
- Typical assessments may include, but is not restricted to: in-class exercises, written and oral assignments, quizzes, examinations, group project tasks, oral presentation, and other assessment deemed appropriate to show attainment of the learning outcomes set for the course. Further details will be made available via the Class Summary. (100) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
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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 assessment work.
Where this course is offered in intensive delivery mode as a continuous block over a shorter period of time, the expected total time commitment for this course will be 130 hours.
Prescribed Texts
Information about the prescribed textbook (if any) will be made available via the Class Summary.
Assumed Knowledge
There are no pre-requisites for this course, however some direct exposure to engineering/business projects is desirable.
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:
- 34
- 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.
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| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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