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Module Title Project Management Type/ Status Prerequisites N/A Module Code Credits: 3 (Lectures 45 Hours) Learning Outcomes

This document provides an overview of the Project Management module. The module is compulsory and aims to help students understand project management principles, plan projects in terms of organization and people, and manage project processes and procedures. Key topics covered include project definitions, success criteria, management systems, terminating projects, organizational structures, planning, scheduling, cost control, performance monitoring, and change management. Assessment consists of continuous assessments, assignments, and a final exam testing students' knowledge of concepts through multiple choice and long answer questions.

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Module Title Project Management Type/ Status Prerequisites N/A Module Code Credits: 3 (Lectures 45 Hours) Learning Outcomes

This document provides an overview of the Project Management module. The module is compulsory and aims to help students understand project management principles, plan projects in terms of organization and people, and manage project processes and procedures. Key topics covered include project definitions, success criteria, management systems, terminating projects, organizational structures, planning, scheduling, cost control, performance monitoring, and change management. Assessment consists of continuous assessments, assignments, and a final exam testing students' knowledge of concepts through multiple choice and long answer questions.

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Module Title Project Management

Type/ Status Compulsory Core Course Unit

Prerequisites N/A
Module Code CCU2303 Credits: 3 (Lectures 45 hours )
Learning At the end of this module, the student should be able to:
Outcomes LO1. apprehend the principles of project management
LO2. plan a project in terms of organization and people
LO3. manage project processes and procedures.

Module Project Management, Success/Failure Criteria, Project Management


Contents Systems, Terminating the Project, Post-Project Appraisals,
Organizational Structure, Project organization and Project
management plans.
Resources Multimedia projector, whiteboard, marker pens, posters, Internet,
magazines and journals, books
Methods of Lecture discussions, PowerPoint presentation, tutorials, assignments.
Teaching and
Learning
Assessment Continuous Assessment and Final Examination.
CA 40% + FE 60% = Z 100%
(CA = Continuous Assessment, FE = Final Examination, Z = Total
Marks)

CA
40% Assignment - Portfolio

FE
20% MCQ One hour 40 Questions
40% SEQ one hour 4 Questions

Recommende Books:
d Reading and • Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction, 2012, by
Resources
Chris Sims and Hillary Louise Johnson
• Project Management: Proven Principles in Agile Project
Management for Successful Managers and Businesses, 2017,
by Thomas Keane
• Schwalbe, K. Information Technology Project Management,
Course Technology, 4th edition, 2005
• Weill, P., and Ross, J. IT Governance, Harvard Business School
Press, 2004

Journals:

Websites:

Module Title 15: CCU2303: Project Management

1. Project Management Principles


1.1. Project Management
1.1.1. Definitions of Projects
1.1.2. Designing a new product or service
1.1.3. The Major Project Phases and Why they are Required
1.1.4. An Understanding of The Work in Each Phase
1.1.5. The Nature of Work in the Lifecycles of Projects in Various Industries
1.2. Success/Failure Criteria
1.2.1. The Need to Meet Operational, Time and Cost Criteria, and to Define and Measure
Success
1.2.2. Investment Appraisal
1.2.3. Success/Failure Criteria
1.2.4. Project Definition Report
1.2.5. Acceptance Testing
1.3. Project Management Systems
1.3.1. Procedures and Processes
1.3.2. Knowledge of Project Information System
1.3.3. How to integrate human and material resources to achieve successful projects
(Project Integration Management)
1.4. Terminating the Project
1.4.1. Audit Trails
1.4.2. Punch Lists
1.4.3. Close-Out Reports
1.4.4. Post-project appraisals; Comparison of project outcome with business objectives

2. Organization and People


2.1. Organizational Structure
2.1.1. Functional, Project and Matrix Organizational Structures
2.1.2. Job Descriptions
2.1.3. Key Roles
2.2. Control
2.2.1. The Need for Monitoring and Control
3. Change Control Procedures
3.1. Leadership requirements
3.1.1. Stages of Team Development
3.1.2. Delegation of Work and Responsibility
3.1.3. Techniques for Dealing with Conflict
3.1.4. Negotiation Skills
3.2. Manpower resources
3.2.1. Requirement Calculations
3.2.2. Specifications and Optimization of Human Resource Requirements
3.2.3. Job Descriptions

4. Processes and procedures


4.1. Preparation of software project management plans
4.1.1. The why, what, how, when, where and who
4.2. Project organization
4.2.1. The Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)
4.2.2.The Work Breakdown Structure
4.2.3.Project Execution Strategy
4.2.4. Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS)
4.2.5.Task Responsibility Matrix
4.2.6. Statement of Work (SOW) for software Project Tasks
4.3. Scheduling Techniques
4.3.1. Relationship between schedules, OBS and WBS
4.3.2.Bar Charts
4.3.3.Milestone Schedules
4.3.4.Network Techniques
4.3.5.Resourcing Techniques
4.3.6. Computer-based Scheduling and Resourcing Packages
4.3.7.Critical Path Analysis
4.3.8. Milestone Trending
4.3.9. Staff-hours Earned Value and Progress ‘S’ Curves
4.3.10. Reporting Techniques
4.4. Cost Control
4.4.1. Cost Breakdown Structure
4.5. Techniques
4.5.1. Allocation of budgets to packages of work
4.5.2.Actual Costs and Committed Costs
4.5.3.Cash Flow
4.5.4. Contingency Management
4.6. Performance
4.6.1. Cost Performance Analysis
4.6.2. CPI and SPI are known as Cost Performance Indicators
4.7. Change control
4.7.1. The Need for Formal Control of Changes
4.7.2.Change Reviews and Authorization
4.7.3.The Formation of Project Teams
4.7.4. Software Project Initiation and Start Up Procedures

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