Course results for Curtin University Postgraduate Project management Subjects

Gain perspective on real industry projects in professional settings from idea to execution. Analyse a case study to contrast initiation and planning ideas. Scope out and communicate project management concepts and processes. Consider costs and risk. 

Oversee the monetary side of the project development process. Tally up cash-flow management, cost estimations and overall budgeting. Familiarise yourself with the tools, theories and techniques you’ll need to create and implement a project budget.

Uncover the problems that project management teams face when they don’t pay attention to time management. Focus on effective strategies such as activity sequencing. Juggle time constraints using Gantt charts and specialist software.

Reveal the mental, physical, emotional and social behaviours people engage in. Expose effectiveness of diverse people in project groups. Personalise attitudes and values and get emotional about mood. Uncover leadership and probe power and politics. 

See how quality is measured, maintained and assessed during a project’s lifecycle. Reveal the safeguards that are built into the design and planning stages to maximise quality outcomes. Highlight standards that are required locally and internationally.

Create a comprehensive organisational plan, taking your cue from strategic management frameworks. Negotiate issues that can arise during a project’s governance process. Learn to navigate the requirements of stakeholders when managing a portfolio.

Grasp the importance of the procurement phase of a project. You’ll design a procurement plan that reflects the acquisition and tendering processes involved in project management. Assemble a working knowledge of contract management and the relevant laws.

Apply new-found skills in a project that requires you to consider scope, time, cost, quality, risk, communication, procurement and human resources. Showcase how you’ll solve real-life problems for the workplace.

Make sense of the concepts of risk and uncertainty as they relate to managing projects in the workplace. Run the numbers using specialist software that helps you evaluate and measure risk. Develop a risk management plan for a real-life project.

Further develop your project from Project Management Research 1. Find relating literature, decide on a research methodology, collect and analyse your data and draw your conclusion – all under the eyes of a supervisor.