Projects are becoming an increasingly important part of how all organisations across industry sectors do business. The primary objective of this module is to provide learners with the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to apply project management principles, tools and techniques to deliver value to the organisation. The module will explain the role of the project manager, and provide learners with skills and knowledge to perform this role in dealing with stakeholders needs and expectations, developing project plans and executing them in an efficient and effective manner.

Project management organisational strategy and delivering value , project portfolio management, programme management, project lifecycles, project processes, project management strategies and approaches, predictive and adaptive methodologies. Project governance, roles and reponsibilities ,project human resource management, role of the project manager-change agent, role of the project team, projects and organisational structures. Stakeholeder management, developing the project charter, developing the project plan, project communications management, project risk management, project scope management, estimating and developing budgets, project time management, resourcing, setting and tracking to baselines. Controlling projects and reporting, project closure and capturing lessons learned. Contemporary issues, maturity models, agile, matching tools and techniques selection to project needs.

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to: 1. Compare and contrast various project management approaches and appreciate the appropriate application of each. 2. Evaluate governance structures, roles and responsibilities designed to support the delivery of value through projects. 3. Identify, and collaborate with, key project stakeholders to elicit their requirements and set project objectives. 4. Organise project information and develop project plans to meet project objectives. 5. Develop frameworks to control projects and monitor performance. 6. Disseminate project information effectively and efficiently to manage stakeholder's needs and expectations.

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to: 1. Judge how projects are consistent with the goals and strategies of the organisation. 2. Empathise with the needs of project stakeholders and assess the broader impact of projects on the organisation and beyond.

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Delivery will be fully online - with extensive use of online content, designed interactions through etivities using discussion forums and other collaborative technologies. Learning will be paced and asynchronous, supported by emoderators. Research While standard industry based project management frameworks will be discussed, students will study the latest research in this emerging discipline. By taking different theoretical perspectives, students are required to view projects and identify how project management theory might inform practice and use this as a basis to critique standard industry frameworks. Graduate Attributes The graduate attributes are addressed in the module in the following way KNOWLEDGEABLE - The module seeks to build knowledge in the discipline of project management and gets students to apply this new knowledge to practical examples through a variety case based scenarios. (LO1 & LO2) PROACTIVE/CREATIVE - There are also a range of project management processes, tools and techniques introduced which the student must use to resolve project related problems. The assessment of the module includes problems designed to get students to think about how they can select tools, adapt and use them to address the problems provided. (LO3, LO4, LO5 & LO6) RESPONSIBLE Students must study various roles and responsibilities in projects (LO2) and gain an appreciation in how their own actions and decisions have an impact on others (LO3 & LO6) and on the overall performance at project, programme and organisational levels (LO7) They are also expected to be able to address the needs of all project stakeholders in an ethically responsible way. (LO8) COLLABORATIVE The module includes group collaboration online. They will have the opportunity to discuss problems in groups in analysing stakeholders needs through case studies, and reflect on practice in this regard in different contexts (LO3) ARTICULATE - students will produce written work in which they will need to articulate their understanding of project management theory and concepts applied in a variety of project settings (LO2) and illustrate how they might communicate information on project performance to different stakeholder groups (LO6 & LO8)