Project Management Practices

In this subject students will learn about how to evaluate the feasibility of a project and then to define, structure and organise the initial planning phase for both construction projects and complex projects (e.g. IT, high technology projects). The interaction between commercial expectations and project management approaches will be considered broadly based on process and systems thinking. The subject builds on and integrates knowledge from CVEN90043 Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering and/or MCEN90010 Finance and Human Resources for Engineers where the fundamentals of economic appraisal is described, the planning approaches detailed in subject CVEN90045 Engineering Project Implementation and the fundamentals of risk management for which detailed approaches are provided in MULT90014 Business Risk Management. The subject is particularly important for students wishing to understand how to structure and scope projects such that they are well planned on the basis of triple bottom line thinking and the project management processes are efficiently structured.

• 1Assist project owners to sensibly consider the feasibility of projects
• 2Develop investment logic maps
• 3Structure an acquisition strategy for either traditional projects or a complex engineering or IT project
• 4Clarify a project’s scope and establish boundaries to the scope of complex projects
• 5Analyse and evaluate project risks and project decisions
• 6Develop and communicate projects in a consolidated project management plan that considers client interface, governance, organizational structure and resources to assist in the management and control of projects to achieve targeted key performance indicators
• 7Understand the influence of cultural differences when resourcing large international projects.