Developments in Project Management
Duration and timing: 20 hours, Spring Term
Module leader: Steve Barron
Overview
Successful project managers require a broader range of abilities than mastery of the usually acknowledged project management techniques. This module therefore explores new and emerging methodologies for project management. It will enable you to engage effectively with practitioners and to bring powerful project management techniques to your future employers.
In addition to computer-based tools, other methods can be usefully applied to project work, at various points in the project life-cycle, to influence project success. These will typically relate to the following key processes:
- critical approaches to managing projects
- project definition and involvement of stakeholders in the project
- managing the early stages of planning where work content is developed
- developing estimated timescales into the project plan
- managing critical resources across projects
- measuring progress and performance
- developing a critical understanding of how to improve working practice
As the methods reviewed become mainstream practice or new methods emerge, topics may change to reflect current practice.
Assessment
3,000 word individual assignment
