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PPMP20010 - Executing and Closing Projects

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Executing and Closing Projects will develop your skills in the executing and closing stages of the project life cycle. You will consider several different definitions of what is required when executing a project from the perspective of different standards, frameworks and academic works. Projects will be investigated according to industry, project domain, and other factors to enable you to describe their influences and approaches to project execution and closing. You will analyse inputs and outputs, and the tools and techniques applied in different project domains. This will enable you to identify the practical application of project monitoring, control systems, and the management of control issues, such as, scope creep, risk, quality, baseline changes in the context of project outsourcing, oversight, and contract closure.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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).

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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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Practical Assessment 30%
2. Practical Assessment 30%
3. Written Assessment 40%

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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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 87.85% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 42.97% response rate.

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.

Source: Student feedback
Feedback
There was a lack of resource availability to support the completion of assessments and facilitate learning for each topic covered.
Recommendation
Assessment documentation is to be reviewed and updated to better support students in completing their assessments. Students will be encouraged to do further research.
Action Taken
Feedback was implemented and assessment documentation was amended to reflect this feedback, specifically around the effort required for each case study.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
A bit of misalignment was observed between assessments and the lectures. The assessments could be better aligned to the lectures.
Recommendation
The lectures and assessment topics are to be reviewed and updated to ensure alignment.
Action Taken
Assessment items were amended to reflect this feedback to provide better alignment with learning material presented.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Both the tutor and lecturer are very helpful. They have excellent teaching skills to ensure students understand the lesson and tasks.
Recommendation
The teaching team will continuously work hard to engage students in the class for comprehensive learning of the best project management practices in real-life fields toward developing skilled manpower for the industry.
Action Taken
Continuous coaching and support provided to the teaching team to maintain this item.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Students love to have real-life case discussions in class and ensure they are engaged in the lectures.
Recommendation
The teaching team will focus on discussing more real-life cases in class with special care. They will also use appropriate teaching techniques to engage students in class.
Action Taken
The case studies presented in this unit are discussed in class as well as supported via material in Moodle with detailed list of references for further reading.
Source: Student Feedback.
Feedback
Some misalignments between case studies and learning material in class.
Recommendation
Review learning material and case studies to ensure the topics are aligned.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback.
Feedback
Great use of a variety of learning approaches, such as lectures, case studies, group discussion and in-class activities to engage students.
Recommendation
Maintain the high level of teaching and learning and provide support to academic staff where they may need assistance to provide prompt feedback to students and engage students in class.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback.
Feedback
Provide pre-recorded lectures and tutorials for DST students and to those students that potentially miss classes.
Recommendation
Recorded lectures are no longer a requirement (post-COVID); however, DST students need additional support. It is worthwhile considering developing a series of videos for lectures and tutorials for DST students. Recording live lectures is not advisable due to logistical challenges and student privacy (for subsequent terms), so this will require a budget in order to develop professional video collateral (which will need updating with the PMBOK guide or unit material changes).
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback.
Feedback
Provide formal and structured Zoom or MS Teams drop-in sessions to DST Students.
Recommendation
Currently, there are no formal drop-in sessions, and while many DST students do not seek this level of support, there are times when such support is required. This level of support will require drop-on sessions to be organised in the evenings (as most DST students work during the day). Implementing such a recommendation will improve the DST learning experience; however, implementing this recommendation will have resource implications. Another option could be to livestream lectures on each campus and allow DST students to join if possible. However, this will require that lectures be delivered in spaces with such technical capabilities.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Examine the knowledge areas and processes applied in the execution and closing stages of the project management life cycle
  2. Critically analyse how the needs of stakeholders might change the priority of outputs from the execution and closing stages of the project management life cycle
  3. Define and justify project event-driven and time-driven controls for a case study project
  4. Define and justify audit, governance and termination reporting for a case study project.

This unit will satisfy one of the requirements for Australia Computer Society (ACS) accreditation in the postgraduate ICT courses.
The unit may contribute to the required number of academic study units for students wishing to undertake profession certification with the Project Management Institute's (PMI) professional qualifications, such as CAPM or PMP.
The ACS recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles. ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills codes as defined by SFIA:
  • Business Analysis (BUAN),
  • Project Management (PRMG),
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management (RLMT),
  • Systems Integration (SINT),
  • Change Management (CHMG),
  • Release and Deployment (RELM),
  • IT Operations (ITOP),
  • Problem Management (PBMG).

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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3 - Written Assessment • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • • • •
4 - Research • • • •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
3 - Written Assessment • • • •
1 - Practical Assessment • • •
2 - Practical Assessment • • •