School: Business and Law

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

    Managing Project Quality and Risk
  • Unit Code

    MAN3714
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Richard HUGHES

Description

Project risk management describes the principles and processes required to ensure that any risks in a project are properly managed. This helps to guard against project failure. Typical risk management processes in a project involve: planning how risks will be managed; identifying and documenting risks; analysing and prioritising risks; and developing, implementing, and monitoring any agreed plans. Project quality management encompasses the principles, processes and activities that are used to define and achieve what the customer or stakeholder needs from the project’s deliverables. Central to this is the creation a project quality management plan. This plan is underpinned by quality management concepts. These relate to customer satisfaction, stakeholder theory, the true cost of quality, and continuous improvement. The unit will also examine project risk and quality management principles and processes from an academic perspective and will critique applied industry approaches against these. The unit is delivered using technology enhanced learning including online exercises, video case studies and webinars. Consequently all students will need regular online access to the unit’s content.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MAN2170.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN3110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse project quality and risk issues in various project settings (e.g. geographically distributed project team members, cultural differences).
  2. Classify inputs into the various project quality and risk processes.
  3. Conduct project risk audit and reviews.
  4. Describe the key factors impacting on project quality and risk.
  5. Design outputs that would contribute to the successful management of quality and risk in a project.
  6. Use appropriate tools and techniques for managing quality and risk in these processes.

Unit Content

  1. Development of project risk and quality theory and practice.
  2. Principles and processes underpinning project risk and quality management.
  3. Project risk and quality management plans.
  4. Project risk and quality tools and techniques.
  5. Monitoring and control processes for improving project risk and quality management outcomes.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationRecorded presentation10%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationRecorded presentation10%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Project Management Institute, H. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (Sechste Ausgabe.). Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1019680734
  • Project Management Institute, H. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (Sechste Ausgabe.). Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1019680734
  • Rose, K. H. (2014). Project Quality Management : Why, What and How. Boca Raton: J. Ross Publishing, Incorporated. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/923205637
  • Bissonette, M. (2016). Project Risk Management : A Practical Implementation Approach (1st edition.). Project Management Institute. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1159610972
  • Wright, A., & Lawlor-Wright, T. (2019). Project success and quality : balancing the iron triangle. London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1053623494
  • Wright, A., & Lawlor-Wright, T. (2019). Project success and quality : balancing the iron triangle. London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1053623494

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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School: Business and Law

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

    Managing Project Quality and Risk
  • Unit Code

    MAN3714
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Richard HUGHES

Description

Project risk management describes the principles and processes required to ensure that any risks in a project are properly managed. This helps to guard against project failure. Typical risk management processes in a project involve: planning how risks will be managed; identifying and documenting risks; analysing and prioritising risks; and developing, implementing, and monitoring any agreed plans. Project quality management encompasses the principles, processes and activities that are used to define and achieve what the customer or stakeholder needs from the project’s deliverables. Central to this is the creation a project quality management plan. This plan is underpinned by quality management concepts. These relate to customer satisfaction, stakeholder theory, the true cost of quality, and continuous improvement. The unit will also examine project risk and quality management principles and processes from an academic perspective and will critique applied industry approaches against these. The unit is delivered using technology enhanced learning including online exercises, video case studies and webinars. Consequently all students will need regular online access to the unit’s content.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed MAN2170.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN3110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse project quality and risk issues in various project settings (e.g. geographically distributed project team members, cultural differences).
  2. Classify inputs into the various project quality and risk processes.
  3. Conduct project risk audit and reviews.
  4. Describe the key factors impacting on project quality and risk.
  5. Design outputs that would contribute to the successful management of quality and risk in a project.
  6. Use appropriate tools and techniques for managing quality and risk in these processes.

Unit Content

  1. Development of project risk and quality theory and practice.
  2. Principles and processes underpinning project risk and quality management.
  3. Project risk and quality management plans.
  4. Project risk and quality tools and techniques.
  5. Monitoring and control processes for improving project risk and quality management outcomes.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationRecorded presentation10%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationRecorded presentation10%
Case StudyProject management case study40%
AssignmentProject management assignment50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Project Management Institute, H. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (Sechste Ausgabe.). Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1019680734
  • Project Management Institute, H. (2017). A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (Sechste Ausgabe.). Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1019680734
  • Rose, K. H. (2014). Project Quality Management : Why, What and How. Boca Raton: J. Ross Publishing, Incorporated. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/923205637
  • Bissonette, M. (2016). Project Risk Management : A Practical Implementation Approach (1st edition.). Project Management Institute. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1159610972
  • Wright, A., & Lawlor-Wright, T. (2019). Project success and quality : balancing the iron triangle. London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1053623494
  • Wright, A., & Lawlor-Wright, T. (2019). Project success and quality : balancing the iron triangle. London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1053623494

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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