Graduate Certificate of Project Management

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 the Graduate Certificate of Project Management and the 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 the Graduate Certificate of Project Management and the Graduate Diploma of Project Management.

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Unit code: INF80042
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

About this unit:

The larger a project, the greater the quantity of data involved, particularly at an organisational level. This unit explores the role of data and the issues that can emerge in data management, in the present as well as on an ongoing basis. Students will learn how to evaluate triage issues regarding technological infrastructure and how best to resolve these issues. This unit teaches students about a number of frameworks, methods and tools that ensure managing service delivery within an organisation is coherent and effective, and business impact can be effectively managed.

Content:

• The role of data
• Big Data and data management
• Triage and technological infrastructure
• Identifying an appropriate technological vendor and/or partner
• Advanced knowledge of data management frameworks, methods and tools
• Technology adoption and business impact
• Developing a coherent approach to service delivery
• Proficient communication

This unit is found in the Graduate Certificate of Project Management and the Graduate Diploma of Project Management.

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Unit code: PRM60002 Project Management for Business Development
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 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

• 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 benefits 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 of Management

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