Project Management in Practice (ABPL90025)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to: 

• Understand public and private projects; 
• Understand roles of various project managers (client, contractor, consultant, supplier, others);
• Understand project management knowledge areas and how the knowledge areas relate to each other;
• Understand and critically evaluate a project life cycle;
• Understand and develop a project business case;
• Understand project risks and how they are transferred;
• Understand how procurement models are chosen;
• Understand project management trade-offs on balancing the triple constraints of scope, time and cost;
• Develop a systems and integrated approach to project management; and
• Research current project management practices and uses.

Generic skills

At the completion of the subject students should have developed the following skills and capabilities:

• An appreciation of the integrated project control processes and dimensions of professional roles;

• The ability to function effectively as either a team leader or member within multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams;

• A commitment to, and fundamental appreciation of, the concept of successful teamwork and the ability to communicate effectively, clearly and concisely as a team leader or member of the group;

• An ability to communicate ideas, concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences effectively, clearly and concisely;

• An ability to carry out research and apply fundamental theoretical knowledge to problem solving in relevant disciplines.