Graduate Certificate of Project Management

Unit code: INF70005
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 8 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit is a thought-provoking introduction to project management, with an emphasis on teaching students to see the big picture of organisational strategy so as to gain competitive advantage where possible. Project management principles and best practice are tied into the larger context of an organisation’s strategic objectives. Students learn to critically analyse and evaluate various strategies in order to implement effective solutions to existing and anticipated project-related challenges.

Content

• Project management principles and methodologies
• Issues in contemporary project management
• Project management solutions in an organisational context
• Competitive advantage
• Organisational strategy
• Strategic objectives
• Stakeholder management
• Professional communication and leadership

This unit is found in:

• Graduate Certificate of Project Management
• Graduate Diploma of Project Management

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Unit code: PRM60003
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

About this unit

Students will learn about both conventional and disruptive risk frameworks in the context of an increasingly interconnected and wired world where effective communication is essential. Stakeholder management is a core focus, as Project Managers frequently assume team leader and managerial responsibilities. Students learn to effectively gauge various business risks and, in doing so, develop non-linear problem-solving strategies to resolve complications in complex environments.

Content

• Conventional and disruptive risk frameworks
• Risk types
• Effective stakeholder management
• Non-linear problem solving
• Communication and leadership
• Synthesising and implementing methods of risk adaptation
• Project management in complex environments

This unit is found in:

• Graduate Certificate of Project Management
• Graduate Diploma of Project Management

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Unit code: PRM60002
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12.5 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit demonstrates the decisions and tasks that emerge during the phases of the entrepreneurial life cycle. The unit also aims to provide students with an understanding of the importance of developing project management capabilities and competences within an entrepreneurial venture in such a way that it captures organisational learning and influences, as well as establishing a process that clearly aligns project selection to enterprise strategy. The unit will critically analyse personal opportunities to develop entrepreneurial activities within the student’s own role.

Content

• Understanding terms: What is an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur and a professional manager. What are their characteristics and traits?
• The role of the enterprising leader in project management
• The entrepreneurial life cycle and the role project management plays
• Determinants of a viable entrepreneurial project
• Conditions which stimulate the emergence of enterprise and entrepreneurship
• Understanding the strategic orientation of your enterprising business
• The benefit(s) of feasibility studies
• Negotiation within the entrepreneurial firm and project management
• How to understand and analyse risk in entrepreneurial ventures and during its life cycle
• Managing and dealing with limited resources
• Funding sources for entrepreneurial projects

This unit is found in:

• Graduate Certificate in Management 
• Graduate Diploma of Project Management

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Unit code: SCM60001
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit critically examines the issues and techniques of Operations Management. It reviews the strategic importance of the operations function in delivering top quality products and services efficiently and effectively to meet the needs of clients and customers. It focuses on the three key operations management activities of operations design, operations planning and control, and operations improvement – all in a strategic context. The unit also provides an opportunity for students to apply theory and technique to real examples drawn from literature, observed in everyday life, and from students’ own experience. Contemporary issues in operations management are also explored.