School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Managing Project Scope and Stakeholders
  • Unit Code

    PRJ6401
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ross Harold YATES

Description

An important principle in project management is how proactively identifying and engaging with a broad range of stakeholders can contribute to project success and customer satisfaction. In this unit, students will learn how stakeholders influence projects, performance, and outcomes. Students will explore how project teams serve other stakeholders by engaging with them and how this advances the project's value delivery. This is typically done at the beginning where the organisation's strategic intent is highlighted, and the project’s intended benefits and the high level scope are set out, being better defined as the project progresses. Students critique how this can be achieved in adaptive projects where the scope is less certain at the beginning of the life cycle. Modern projects of all types also need to consider their impact on a sustainable environment. Consequently students in this unit will examines the relationship between these factors to ensure that project outputs drive outcomes that ultimately deliver value to the organisation and its stakeholders.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over seven weeks.

Equivalent Rule

This unit is equivalent to MAN5401

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Compare the major global alternative project management methodologies along the predictive/adaptive continuum that support successful project delivery.
  2. Contrast the traditional and contemporary constraints and influences that shape a project’s ultimate benefits.
  3. Assess the legitimacy, power, and influence of a diverse range of stakeholders on contemporary projects.
  4. Examine complex ethical and sustainable project management issues as part of an effective team.

Unit Content

  1. Project management fundamentals.
  2. Project scope.
  3. Project stakeholder theory and principles.
  4. Organisational strategy and project benefits.
  5. The project business case.
  6. Project communications.
  7. Sustainability challenges.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyStakeholder case study30%
AssignmentProject management assignment45%
ExerciseFinal exercise25%

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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