Critically apprise your organisation’s use of activities related to planning, monitoring, controlling, and closing project with reference to your organisational context.

Knowledge & Understanding

Learning
Enquiry

Apply project management tools & techniques throughout the project lifecycle.

Application



Critically evaluate the role that projects & project management techniques play within organisations.

Analysis

Problem-solving


Reflect on and demonstrate development of associated underpinning organisational agility and drive for results to enhance your position of management & leadership.

Reflection

Communication

You will ensure that the learning outcomes and the Duties, knowledge, skills and behaviours are addressed within the assignment.



Your project proposal will set out your plans for a strategic consultative project in which you will identify an issue or opportunity in your organisation, analyse your organisation’s existing processes for managing change and address how your approach will use/alter these, you will also identify budgetary and resource requirements and set out your plan for implementation using recognised tools. (Learning outcomes 1 and 2)



Your project implementation report will set out your process for managing your consultative project, identify your implementation process, challenges, successes and obstacles. It should identify your stakeholders and address communication strategies with stakeholders, and it should clearly show the impact that your project has had on the wider organisation. (Learning outcomes 2 and 3)



Your PDP will identify areas of skill and knowledge which you have addressed through this project, it will also identify any further skills required as part of your long-term development (Learning outcome 4)

The necessity to effectively manage the development of new products and services is regarded by many as an organisations life-blood. This module concentrates on the process, management techniques and tools that are used throughout a projects life cycle to ensure effective and appropriate decision making. Evaluating the outcome of good project management through evaluation of selected problem/practice base. Identifying & developing individual organisational agility and drive for results competencies in management & leadership roles.


The module content will include the following areas:
1. The role that projects play in an organisational context.
2. Project evaluation techniques.
3. Project Lifecycle concepts.
4. The role of the project manager.
5. Project management methodologies.
6. People processes.
7. A critical awareness of project planning (including, but not limited to, developing a work breakdown structure, scheduling, costs and benefits, stakeholder management and risk management).
8. Project monitoring control.
9. Effective project closure.

The necessity to effectively manage the development of new products and services is regarded by many as an organisations life-blood. This module concentrates on the process, management techniques and tools that are used throughout a projects life cycle to ensure effective and appropriate decision making.

Scheduled learning and teaching activities:

To consist of:

Face-to-face which will include groupwork, formal teaching, case study analysis, guest speakers and students will be encouraged to share their workplace experiences with others

Online live webinars to take the form of tutorials involving opportunities for group discussion and presentation, flipped-classroom opportunities, further groupwork and case study analysis



Guided independent study

To consist of:

Accessing additional online content such as videos and presentations

Independent reading to consolidate knowledge gained in the formal teaching

Undertaking formative tasks set by the tutor to consolidate learning

Assessment preparation and writing and gathering evidence

Portfolio building

Maylor, H. (2010) Project Management (Fourth Edition), Pearson Education, Harlow, England.
Meredith, J. & Mantel, S. (2011) Project Management: A Managerial Approach (Eighth Edition) John Wiley & Sons.

Kerzner, H (2017) Project Management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling and controlling, 12th ed, Wiley (eBook)

Dinsmore, P, Cabanis-Brewin, J (2014) The AMA Handbook of Project Management, 4th ed, AMA (eBook)

O’Gorman, K, MacIntosh, R (2014) Research Methods for business and management, Goodfellow Publishers (eBook)

Parmenter, D (2015) Key performance indicators: developing, implementing and using winning KPIs, 5th ed. John Wiley

Journals: Project Management Journal, International Journal of Project Management, The Journal of Modern Project Management, Journal of Project Management, International Journal of Project Organisation and Management.

APM: www.apm.org.uk

PMI: www.pmi.org.uk