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Project Governance and Resource Management
Postgraduate | SWI-PRM80002 | 2020
Previously SWI-INF80044
Course information for 2020 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Project Governance and Resource Management
About this subject
Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
- Apply advanced knowledge of project governance structures, industry standards and procedures for project control and practices
- Critically evaluate and communicate the processes required to make effective use of people and other resources involved in a project
- Critically evaluate the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the project organisation and explain principles for improving project procurement
- Develop advanced knowledge of quality planning, quality assurance and quality control practices to ensure that projects will satisfy the needs for which they are undertaken
- Communicate effectively as a professional and function as an effective leader or member of a diverse team
- Project Governance: Introduction of governance in a Project Management context
- Project plan development
- Monitoring the project and change control process
- Project Quality Management
- Quality assurance
- Quality control
- Resource Management
- Organisational planning
- Staff acquisition and team development
- Procurement planning
- Solicitation planning
- Contract administration
This subject aims to investigate appropriate project governance structures, its context and dimensions in the overall project success. It also examines the processes required to acquire goods and services, and make effective use of people and other resources involved in a project. To ensure a project is completed successfully, students will be provided with advanced knowledge of project quality management including how to develop a quality management plan, and perform quality assurance and control.
- Individual (20-30%)
- Individual (30-50%)
- Group (30-40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
- SWI-INF70005-Strategic Project Management
SWI-INF70001 (Not currently available)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
SWI-INF80044-Project Governance and Resource Management (no longer available)
SWI-HIT8430 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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