This unit provides you with the skills necessary to succeed in a rapidly changing contemporary work environment. You will identify, formulate and solve problems while being provided with industry focused learning opportunities during your final year of study. You will actively engage in characteristics of an authentic project management practice. These will include: time and resource constraints, capability gaps, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams addressing complex problems and differing leadership and team member working styles. This unit provides an opportunity for you to demonstrate a deep understanding and practical application of the knowledge and skills gained in the early stages of the Master of Project Management, as well as demonstrating the attributes required of a CQUniversity Graduate. You will undertake a project related to your domain of choice and participate in tasks associated with project management within a contemporary work environment. Assessment includes the opportunity to plan and execute a project, analyse your project performance and self-reflect on your experience and lessons learnt.

Each 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Student feedback via formal SUTE

Improve organization of learning material on Moodle

The unit material on Moodle, resources, links, and other resources need to be organized with a clear structure. At present, workshop documents related to assessments are located in the weekly tiles but not linked in the Assessment block. In addition, some formal slide decks need to be developed to provide a clear outline of the weekly content linking relevant resources.

Feedback from In class

Time limit to complete project is too short

Students commence their projects from Week 4 once group formation is finalised, and they have 4-5 weeks to complete the project with a demo and presentation of their prototypes in Week 9. This is not feasible due to the many challenges students can face (stakeholder engagement, team conflicts, rescoping of projects, etc.). Therefore, it is recommended that the project gallery be pushed back to at least Week 10/11 moving forward. This will mean that the learning material (specifically those topics presented close to the due date of the project gallery) will need to be restructured to suit the new timelines.

Feedback from In and out of class

Project teams require individual one on one sessions with workshop facilitators

Workshop times on Zoom are scheduled for 2 hours at present, which overall is sufficient for a group workshop and delivery of learning material applicable to the entire cohort. Students also work in breakout teams on Zoom during the workshop, and the lecturer roams the breakout rooms to provide assistance and guidance. This partly works to a degree, but further facilitation and supervision are required outside of formal class time. MS Teams will be used to engage with students outside of formal class time on an ad-hoc basis to improve the experience of students who require that assistance.