Project Quality Management
PostgraduateCUR-PRM5702023
Course information for 2023 intake
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.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Project Quality Management
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- apply processes from the theory of quality management process to an authentic project and analyse and reflect on the outcomes
- create quality management artefacts that facilitates the management of quality in projects
- recognise the processes, tools, techniques and history of project quality management.
- Introduction to Quality
- Introduction to Quality Management
- Introduction to Project Quality Management
- Planning for Quality
- Designing for Quality
- Performance Measurement and Cost of Quality
- Performance Assessment
- Processes and Process Mapping
- Quality Management Systems
- Continual Improvement and Its Methods, Tools and Techniques
- Quality and Human Resource Management, Teamwork, and Culture Change
- Communications, Training and Learning, and Implementing TQM, Review of Unit
The theories, processes, tools and techniques for the management of the quality of project processes and products. The application of quality planning, assurance and control to projects. The background, principles, and components of global approaches to quality management; and Australian and International standards relating to quality management and project quality management.
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- Report 2 (40%)
- Test (20%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2023 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2023 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE