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In today’s competitive and fast-paced environment, learning to effectively manage a project is critical. In this unit, you will acquire the essential knowledge and essential skills to appropriately initiate and plan projects. The unit will prepare you to work on business cases, the organisation's historical information, previous projects' lessons learned and other project data to construct a project management plan. You will learn about and practice various processes in initiation and planning including project chartering, project scoping, and creating a work breakdown structure (WBS). In this unit, you will also learn about project stakeholders and management. In addition, you will identify a range of risk planning and quality management techniques. Finally, the unit introduces the concept of project integration and explores the role of the project manager in developing, implementing and maintaining the project plan while effectively managing change throughout the project life cycle.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
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Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Identify the key project management knowledge areas, principles, tools and techniques for project initiation and planning
- Identify the key stakeholders and highlight the potential risks in a project domain
- Develop a project charter that appropriately documents a project's needs, desired deliverables and milestones
- Develop a project management plan that clearly defines actions needed to coordinate and ensure effective monitoring and control of project elements.
The learning outcomes of the proposed unit are all developed in line with the requirements of the two potential accreditation bodies, the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Australian Institute of Project Management, for this course. Moreover, the learning outcomes are addressing the graduate attributes noted in the Engineers Australia Policy on Accreditation through incorporating the following:
- Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution
- Understanding of the social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities of the professional engineer, and the need for sustainable development.
(Engineers Australia policy on accreditation retrieved from https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/content-files/2016-12/110214_P02EA_Curr_Engineers_Australia_Policy_on_Accred_REV_0.PDF on 11/05/2021)
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||