MID8116 Project Planning and Management

This course explores the techniques of integrated project planning including the type of leadership required in successfully management of projects. It comprehensively examines the quality concepts and tools for project execution and provides knowledge and strategies for handling possible project risks; it also provides students with an understanding of project cost-structure, budgeting and financial management, and for effective monitoring and evaluation of projects through the use of logical framework approach with clear measurement tools and indicators.

Course objective

The aim of the course is to providing students with a comprehensive insight into effective project planning with theoretical and practical perspectives on factors critical to successful projects management including project performance monitoring and evaluation.

Learning objectives
On completion of the course Graduate are able to:

• Demonstrate a systematic understanding of and to apply relevant knowledge to project development and management considering possible complex situations and interactions with other areas of business, manufacturing, research and organization;
• To apply variance, unpredictability and risks within projects and integrate work into the context professional practice;
• Recognize the role of ethical and value judgments in social, economic and technological contexts, and identify their source, effect and use in arriving at sustainable decisions and ethical solutions;
• To gather and synthesize project related information from different sources, disciplines, and apply it in innovative ways, postulating realistic solutions to current limits of understanding.