2018/19 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

CIVE5190M Advanced Project Management

15 creditsClass Size: 120

Module manager: Professor Naomi Brookes
Email: N.J.Brookes@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2018/19

Pre-requisites

CIVE5181M

Project Management

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

1. Students will understand the context of the project delivery environment; bringing together what they have learnt elsewhere in the programme with the implications of forms of project governance, the articulation of project requirements and choosing an execution and procurement strategy;

2. Students will be familiar with the techniques of stakeholder relationship management and will have experience of using these to facilitate project delivery;

3. Students will be aware of socio-technical risk and opportunity (such as goals, vision, values and work organisation and practices) and the impact that these have on organisational design and development for successful project delivery.

4. To provide students with a holistic and integrative viewpoint of project management bringing together the learning from other modules within the programme.

Learning outcomes
- Students will understand the "whole project" context of the tools and techniques that they have learnt elsewhere in the programme and understand when to apply these techniques and the kind of results that they can expect;

- Students will be familiar with the techniques of stakeholder relationship management and related "soft" project management skills and will have experience of using these to facilitate project delivery;

- Students will be aware of "whole project" level issues (such as project performance and project governance) and the impact that these have on project delivery.

Syllabus

Project management basics reconciliation; applying PM tools and techniques; stakeholder relationship management; project governance; project success and failure; the reality of project management.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	12	1.00	12.00
Tutorial	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			118.00
Total Contact hours			32.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

Directed reading (including reflective exercises) - 70 hours
Independent group case work - 48 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

All case work is reviewed daily through submission or written reports and/or presentations to provide a formative assessment.

Methods of assessment

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Open Book exam	3 hr 00 mins	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 10/12/2018

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