Unit Synopsis
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
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Report | 15% |
| 2. Practical Assessment | 35% |
| 3. Reflective Practice Assignment | 50% |
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%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 94.74% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 47.5% 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
Students appreciate the authentic experiential nature of the unit.
Maintain the authentic and practical nature of the unit to ensure a positive student experience.
The recommendation was upheld as advised.
Source: Student feedback
Students felt the unit was beneficial for their future careers in that it provided them an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills they gained across their studies, while gaining a different perspective using the agile framework and design thinking.
Continue to leverage students' prior knowledge asking them to apply this in an Agile framework while providing new perspectives of design thinking.
The recommendation was upheld as advised.
Source: 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.
In Progress
Source: 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.
In Progress
Source: 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.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- 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.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Report | • | • | ||
| 2 - Practical Assessment | • | • | ||
| 3 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | |||
| 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 | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |
| 1 - Report | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
| 2 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||