Project Management

BSB20315-7

Module Overview
 Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students will be better able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the increasing impact of
project management issues in practice from consideration of
relevant problem based case examples.
• Demonstrate an understanding of a critical awareness of project
planning (including, but not limited to, developing a work
breakdown structure, scheduling, costs and benefits, stakeholder
management and risk management), project monitoring control
and effective project closure.
• Demonstrate an understanding of project evaluation techniques,
project lifecycle concepts, and project management
methodologies.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the role that projects play in an
organisational context, the role of the project manager, and
people processes.
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 Assessment

Individual assignment of approximately

3,000 words weighted at 100%, covering
all the LOs.

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 Lecture Topics
1. Introduction to Project Management.
2. Structures and Frameworks
3. Projects and Organisations
4. Stakeholders, Strategy and Success
5. Initial Planning
6. Time Planning
7. Rethinking Time Planning: The Critical Chain Approach
8. Cost and Benefit Planning
9. Stakeholders and Quality
10. Risk and Opportunities Management
11. Project Organisation: Structures and Teams
12. Management and Leadership in Projects
13. Control
14. Project Completion and Review
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 References
• Maylor, H. (2010) Project Management (4th Ed.),
Pearson Education, Harlow, England. ISBN 978-
027370432.
• Meredith, J. & Mantel, S. (2011), Project Management: A
Managerial Approach (8th Ed.), John Wiley & Sons. ISBN
978-0470533024.
• Gray, C.F. and Larson, E.W. (2010). Project
Management: The Managerial Process, (5th Ed.)
Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. (ISBN: 0071289291).
• Wysocki, Robert K. (2009), Effective Project
Management: Traditional, Adaptive, Extreme, (5th Ed.)
Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing (ISBN: 0470423676)

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 For contact

• For formal communication, email:

kantharow@apu.edu.my

• For consultation, please visit Lecturer Consultation

Hours in Webspace.

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