Overview
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.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2027
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
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 Informal discussions, feedback during workshops, and email communication
Students reported a positive learning experience in the unit.
It is recommended to continue incorporating interactive and engaging class activities, including reflective exercises that connect theoretical concepts with students’ workplace experiences, project management role-plays, and visual project data such as dashboards, charts, and project reports. These approaches can further support student engagement, practical application of theory and deeper learning.
Feedback from UC observation
Introduce more cutting-edge and industry-specific project management practices relevant to the enrolled cohort, with examples from their respective industry domains.
Continue to update the teaching and assessment materials to reflect current and emerging project management practices, with greater integration of contemporary topics such as sustainability, artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation and other emerging technologies relevant to project management practice.