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Project management principles: Definitions and overview; types of projects; portfolios, programmes and projects. The project life cycle; time, cost and quality. Creation and use of work breakdown structures (WBS), cost breakdown structures (CBS), and organisation breakdown structures (OBS). Time and resource scheduling, estimating. Project selection and making the business case, stakeholder identification and analysis of needs. Success criteria, success factors and performance indicators. The project plan.

Business organisational structures for project management: Functional and matrix organisations. Team building and team characteristics. Industrial team operations. Leadership and motivation. Communication methods, effective meetings. Reporting requirements and techniques. Negotiating; conflict management. The role of the programme/project office. Procurement, contractors and suppliers.

Risk Management: Definition of key terms. Evaluation of and planning for risk, risk ownership and reporting, risk register. Contingency planning. Costs and benefits. Health and safety and environmental considerations.

Project Control: Requirements management, issue log. Change: types of change; impact, change control procedures, information management. Configuration management. Monitoring and corrective action.

Tools for project management: Network methods. Creation and analysis of simple project plans using a computer-based tool.

On completion of this module you will be able to:
LO1: elucidate and apply project management principles;
LO2: analyse and recommend business organisational structures for project management;
LO3: explain and apply the principles of risk management;
LO4: analyse and apply a range of project control techniques;
LO5: competently use a computerised project management tool.