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Unit of Study MNG91218 - Project Management: Initiation and Planning (2016)

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Unit description

Consideration of project initiation and planning as the first processes in the project management lifecycle. Students undertake structure and problem-based (scenario) learning to evaluate and assess a project at the selection phase, and create and critique comprehensive project management plans and charters.

Unit content

  1. Procurement: Initiating projects to achieve organisational aims
  2. Selecting projects
  3. Assembling Project Charters
  4. Planning projects: Risk, resources and constraints
  5. Planning projects: Assessment
  6. Assembling Project Management Plans

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Location Domestic International
SCU Online Study Period 4 Study Period 4

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Assess alignment of project goals with organisational capabilities
2 Create and apply project selection matrices
3 Create a project charter
4 Assess and manage project budgets, assumptions, resource constraints against stakeholder needs
5 Develop sustainable and agile project management plans

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Assess alignment of project goals with organisational capabilities
    • GA1:
  2. Create and apply project selection matrices
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
  3. Create a project charter
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
  4. Assess and manage project budgets, assumptions, resource constraints against stakeholder needs
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
  5. Develop sustainable and agile project management plans
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:

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