Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School: Computer and Security Science
This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
Unit Title
Principles of Project ManagementUnit Code
CSI6219Year
2015Enrolment Period
1Version
1Credit Points
20Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Online
Description
This unit provides a practical introduction to the principles of project management in an information technology context.The unit covers project definition, planning, execution, management and control, and implementation. Topics include quality, issue and risk management, project scope management, development strategies and methodologies relating to the software development life cycle, creating and managing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project management software, team and organisational management issues in software development projects and communications.
Equivalent Rule
Unit was previously coded CSI5113
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of cross cultural and indigenous issues in a project management context.
- Implement a project administration framework for a substantial project
- Manage and control issues associated with complex information systems projects.
- Manage the software development life-cycle of substantial information systems projects.
- Plan detailed project documents for an information systems project to meet strategic and operational objectives based on an appropriate software development life cycle strategy.
- Reflect on organisational and team dynamics and issues within substantial information systems projects.
Unit Content
- Dealing with clients and stakeholders: managing change, building and managing project teams, managing conflict.
- History and development of project management as a discipline: basic principles, the project life-cycle, project management terminology.
- Introduction to Software Engineering: concepts relating to the software development cycle.
- Post project reviews and evaluation using internationally recognised IT management standards.
- Project administration: tracking and monitoring, reporting project progress and outcomes, presentations.
- Project adoption (includes project initiation), project implementation, project integration and project termination, communicating project objectives.
- Project initiation: strategic and operational planning frameworks, establishing project goals and objectives, deliverables, process models.
- Project management tools and techniques, work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, project management software.
- Project planning: scoping, resourcing, costing, scheduling, presentation.
- Quality, risk and issue management.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures, workshops, guest speakers and team based discussions.
Assessment
GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
ON CAMPUS| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Assignment | Weekly cumulative assessable exercises | 20% |
| Report | Major Team Report | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
ONLINE| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Assignment | Weekly cumulative assessable exercises | 20% |
| Report | Major Team Report | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
Text References
- ^ Schwalbe, K. (2014). Information technology project management (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Course Technology Cengage Learning.
- Venkataraman, R. R. and Pinto, J. K. (2008). Cost and Value Management in Projects. New Jersey, Wiley and Sons.
- Simon, P. and Webster, B. F. (2010). Why New Systems Fail: An Insider's Guide to Successful IT Projects. Boston: Cengage.
- Chemuturi, M. K. and Cagley Jr. (2010). Mastering software project management: Best practices, Tools and techniques. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Ross Publishing.
- Gido, J., and Clements, J. P. (2014). Successful project management (6th ed.). Singapore: Cengage Learning.
- Dawson, C. (2009). Projects in computing and information systems: A student's guide (2nd ed.). London, England: Addison-Wesley.
- Craig, J. C. (2012). Project management lite: Just enough to get the job done and nothing more. North Charleston, SC: Createspace.
- Bojeun, M. C. (2014). Project management leadership: Creating successful team dynamics (best practices and advances in program management). London, England: Taylor and Francis.
- Larson, E. W., and Gray, C. F. (2013). Project management: The managerial process (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
^ Mandatory reference
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Academic Misconduct
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism;
- unauthorised collaboration;
- cheating in examinations;
- theft of other students' work;
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science
School: Computer and Security Science
This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
Unit Title
Principles of Project ManagementUnit Code
CSI6219Year
2015Enrolment Period
2Version
1Credit Points
20Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Online
Description
This unit provides a practical introduction to the principles of project management in an information technology context.The unit covers project definition, planning, execution, management and control, and implementation. Topics include quality, issue and risk management, project scope management, development strategies and methodologies relating to the software development life cycle, creating and managing a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), project management software, team and organisational management issues in software development projects and communications.
Equivalent Rule
Unit was previously coded CSI5113
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of cross cultural and indigenous issues in a project management context.
- Implement a project administration framework for a substantial project
- Manage and control issues associated with complex information systems projects.
- Manage the software development life-cycle of substantial information systems projects.
- Plan detailed project documents for an information systems project to meet strategic and operational objectives based on an appropriate software development life cycle strategy.
- Reflect on organisational and team dynamics and issues within substantial information systems projects.
Unit Content
- Dealing with clients and stakeholders: managing change, building and managing project teams, managing conflict.
- History and development of project management as a discipline: basic principles, the project life-cycle, project management terminology.
- Introduction to Software Engineering: concepts relating to the software development cycle.
- Post project reviews and evaluation using internationally recognised IT management standards.
- Project administration: tracking and monitoring, reporting project progress and outcomes, presentations.
- Project adoption (includes project initiation), project implementation, project integration and project termination, communicating project objectives.
- Project initiation: strategic and operational planning frameworks, establishing project goals and objectives, deliverables, process models.
- Project management tools and techniques, work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, project management software.
- Project planning: scoping, resourcing, costing, scheduling, presentation.
- Quality, risk and issue management.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures, workshops, guest speakers and team based discussions.
Assessment
GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
ON CAMPUS| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Assignment | Weekly cumulative assessable exercises | 20% |
| Report | Major Team Report | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
ONLINE| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Assignment | Weekly cumulative assessable exercises | 20% |
| Report | Major Team Report | 30% |
| Examination | End of Semester Examination | 50% |
Text References
- ^ Schwalbe, K. (2014). Information technology project management (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Course Technology Cengage Learning.
- Bojeun, M. C. (2014). Project management leadership: Creating successful team dynamics (best practices and advances in program management). London, England: Taylor and Francis.
- Simon, P. and Webster, B. F. (2010). Why New Systems Fail: An Insider's Guide to Successful IT Projects. Boston: Cengage.
- Chemuturi, M. K. and Cagley Jr. (2010). Mastering software project management: Best practices, Tools and techniques. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Ross Publishing.
- Gido, J., and Clements, J. P. (2014). Successful project management (6th ed.). Singapore: Cengage Learning.
- Dawson, C. (2009). Projects in computing and information systems: A student's guide (2nd ed.). London, England: Addison-Wesley.
- Craig, J. C. (2012). Project management lite: Just enough to get the job done and nothing more. North Charleston, SC: Createspace.
- Venkataraman, R. R. and Pinto, J. K. (2008). Cost and Value Management in Projects. New Jersey, Wiley and Sons.
- Larson, E. W., and Gray, C. F. (2013). Project management: The managerial process (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
^ Mandatory reference
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Academic Misconduct
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism;
- unauthorised collaboration;
- cheating in examinations;
- theft of other students' work;
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
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