Overview
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.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: PPMP20015 Project Management Project Proposal
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 - 2018
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
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.
Class Timetable
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.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and 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.
- Apply project management knowledge and skills
- Plan and execute a project based on a project proposal
- Critically analyse and reflect on strengths and weaknesses in knowledge and skills related to project management
- Apply enabling processes used in certain project contexts.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Report - 15% | ||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 35% | ||||
| 3 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Report - 15% | ||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 35% | ||||||||
| 3 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 50% | ||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
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Module/Topic
Theme 1 - Understanding the current state
Personal Perspectives
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Theme 1 - Understanding the current state
People in Projects
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Theme 2 - Defining what to change
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Theme 2 - Defining what to change
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Project Proposal
Baseline Closes
Project Proposal Due: Week 4 Friday (30 Mar 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
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Theme 3 - Idea Generation
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Project Prioritisation
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Theme 3 - Idea Generation
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Theme 4 - A preference for action
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Theme 4 - A preference for action
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Theme 5 - What works?
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Prototype presented
Prioritise and prototype Due: Week 9 Friday (11 May 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
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Theme 5 - What works?
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Theme 6 - Reflective practice
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Theme 6 - Reflective practice
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Reflective Practice Report
Reflective Practice Due: Week 12 Friday (1 June 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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1 Report
This assessment requires you to develop a concise project proposal that reflects the project scenario provided. The scenario will highlight a high level social issue and you will need to specify the problem or opportunity that your proposal will target. You will then conceptualise the project within a domain of your choice and develop a professional and persuasive proposal.
Week 4 Friday (30 Mar 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
Your project proposal must reflect the social issue described in the assessment specifications provided for the current term and will be assessed with reference to the following concepts:
1. Description (4 marks)
2. Alternatives (1 mark)
3. Stakeholders (4 marks)
4. Project approach (3 marks)
5. Constraints/Assumptions (1 mark)
6. Indicative Cost and Potential Funding Source (1 mark)
7. Risk and Mitigation (1 mark)
The professional standard and format of the proposal in terms of appropriate spelling, grammar, presentation, conciseness etc. will be considered within the above marking structure. The assessment specifications provided on the Moodle site provide further information in relation to the assessment.
No submission method provided.
- Apply project management knowledge and skills
- Apply enabling processes used in certain project contexts.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Practical Assessment
This assessment requires you to participate in a project prioritisation process whereby the project proposal you developed in assessment one will be prioritised against others within a group. One project from the group will be prioritised to proceed and as a group you will be required to submit a report discussing the outcome of the prioritisation process. You will then action the successful proposal and develop the project output to a prototype stage.
Week 9 Friday (11 May 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
This assessment is divided into two sub-deliverables which are due in weeks 5 and 9. Please ensure you refer to the assessment specifications on the Moodle site for specific details of due dates for each deliverable.
Week 11 Friday (25 May 2018)
This assessment will be assessed against two deliverables:
Sub-deliverable 1: Prioritisation (Due Friday week 5 - 10 marks)
Sub-deliverable 2: Prototyping (Due Friday week 9 - 25 marks)
The assessment specifications provided on the Moodle site provide further information in relation to the assessment.
No submission method provided.
- Apply project management knowledge and skills
- Plan and execute a project based on a project proposal
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
3 Reflective Practice Assignment
This assessment requires you to engage in reflective practice and develop a reflective practice report. Reflective activities early in the term will represent a baseline or personal 'current state' with later activities acting as a comparison to the baseline. You will be able to analyse the data you gather in the exercises to develop your reflective report. The activities and report aim to highlight to you how reflective practice is embedded into project management and how you can incorporate it into your professional development and career planning.
Week 12 Friday (1 June 2018) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (15 June 2018)
You will be assessed on three aspects of your reflective practice:
Reflective Baseline (Due Friday week 4 - 10 marks)
Reflective Report (Due Friday week 12 - 40 marks)
Personal Performance and Lessons Learnt - reflecting on your performance, what you have learnt about yourself and why it matters
Action Plan - identifying where you want to be and mapping out how you will get there
No submission method provided.
- Critically analyse and reflect on strengths and weaknesses in knowledge and skills related to project management
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
