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2024 unit information
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
1 x 2 hour on-campus (livestreamed) lecture (recordings provided) and 1 x 1 hour on campus seminar each week.
1 x 2 hour online lecture (recordings provided) and 1 x 1 hour online seminar (recordings provided) each week.
Project Management is undoubtedly one of the most important skills in management as modern organisations shift from traditional management to project-based management. This unit examines project management in the exciting, dynamic, innovative, virtual, information enabled, and knowledge intensive organisational environment. Consequently, this unit emphasises skills as well as techniques that can be derived from traditional and Agile project management and explores innovations relevant for the successful management of projects. It also investigates the task of managing project knowledge which is regarded as a central skill for managing future projects. The project management methodologies taught in this unit are based on Agile Project Management and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK). Aspects covered in this unit include: overviews of project management; the Agile philosophy; planning processes; project communication; human and social aspects of project management; procurement tools; techniques and enabling technologies. Students are also able to apply the learning and teamwork skills in a simulated project management environment.
Identify and apply the conceptual skills to successfully solve complex project management problems.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO5: Problem solving
Apply relevant methods and principles of agile and traditional project management to deliver business value.
Apply knowledge of relevant tools and techniques used to solve project management problems.
Employ and reflect on teamwork skills to solve project-management problems.
GLO5: Problem solvingGLO7: Teamwork
Assessment 2: Written reflection (self)
End-of-unit assessment task: Written
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirement: Achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the end-of-unit assessment to evidence a minimum proficiency in the aligned discipline learning outcomes included in this unit.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: MIS798 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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