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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Project Quality and Risk
  • Unit Code

    MAN3714
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Neda KIANI MAVI

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

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Project Quality and Risk
  • Unit Code

    MAN3714
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Neda KIANI MAVI

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

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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