MGMT3002 Techniques for Business Project Management

Later Year Course

Offered By	School of Mgt, Marketing & International Business
Academic Career	Undergraduate
Course Subject	Management
Offered in	Second Semester, 2012
Unit Value	6 units
Course Description	The course will introduce project management approaches, processes and tools for succeeding in the workplace. It will attempt to provide a strategic view, as well as practical tools to better manage projects. The focus is of this course is on the development, use and integration of management tools and their adjustment to the project environment. Throughout the course, the emphasis is on taking a managerial view of the situation and implementing tools to support decision making.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of this course, students should be able to demonstrate that they: Have an understanding of the organisational context and environment within which project management operates. Have an understanding of the project management framework and common tools. Have a strategic perspective with respect to the linkages and interrelationships of strategic deployment and project management. Are able to examine contemporary issues in project management both globally and in Australia. In addition, the course will provide students with an opportunity: to develop oral and written communication skills through active participation in class discussion the development and presentation of oral and written reports formal and informal classroom debate develop critical and creative thinking skills through exercises and assignments requiring analysis, evaluation, interpretation and synthesis debate and classroom discussion to develop leadership skills through structuring an independent group project leading a project and a group exercise fulfilling spokesperson duties, reporting on a group's activities to a class
Indicative Assessment	Assignment (30%) Exam (60%) Class participation (10%)
Areas of Interest	Management
Requisite Statement	72 units
Prescribed Texts	http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/MGMT3002;details.html
Preliminary Reading	Meredith J. R. and Mantel S. J. (2009). Project Management - A Managerial Approach. John Wiley and Sons, 7th edition.
Majors/Specialisations	Management
Other Information	For further information please refer to the course website.

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