Ensuring Project Quality: requirements capture and management, benefits management and the business case
Scope Management: Work Breakdown structures
Project Scheduling and Resourcing: network analysis and Gantt Charts, Milestones and deliverables
Monitoring progress and performance against plan
Project Change Control and Risk Management
Measuring performance in terms of performance, schedule and cost
Project success and quality

1. Report of 2500 words (70%) assessing Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 (AHEP4: C3, C4, C9, C15)
2. Presentation (30%) assessing Learning Outcome 3 (AHEP4: B4, B15)

Professional Body requirements mean that a minimum overall score of 40% is required to pass a module, with each element of assessment requiring a minimum mark of 30% unless otherwise stated.

To enable you to gain deep knowledge and understanding of the topics and to equip you with the ability to analyse and apply concepts related to your subject discipline following learning strategies are used:

Problem Based Lectures
Tutorials
Independent study

Critically evaluate recognised techniques for controlling costs and schedules on projects (AHEP4: C3, C4, C15)
Enquiry
Knowledge and Understanding

Critically evaluate recognised techniques for managing project risks (AHEP4: C9)
Knowledge and Understanding
Analysis
Reflection

Critically evaluate approaches to managing project quality (AHEP4: C4, C15)
Analysis
Reflection

Students will be expected to engage with independent reading, which should include texts, journals, websites that are pertinent to the learning outcomes and the issues or areas that form the focus of the module. Indicative texts:-

Forth, S. and Lock, D (2020) The Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls, Routledge, 1st Edition.
Larson, E W and Gray, C F, (2017) Project Management: The Managerial Process, Mc Graw Hill 7th Edition
Wright, A. and Lawlor-Wright, T. (2018) Project Success and Quality: Balancing the Iron Triangle, Routledge, 1st Edition.

Blackboard VLE Library facilities
Office 365
Excel

This module will develop your understanding of the methods for managing activities and measuring and reporting progress on engineering projects.