Transcript For project management

Dr Marie-Louise Barry
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New Project Management Qualifications at TUT
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Curriculum Development and Support
SAQA – 8 Level NQF
Mission statement: development and implementation of a NQF which
contributes to the full development of each learner and to the social and
economic development of the nation at a large
Post-Graduate
Note:
Arrows denote the
minimum entry
requirements for the
qualification
360 Doctoral
Degree (10)
Credit:
AS ERASMUS
180 Master’s
Degree (9)
120 Post Graduate
Diploma (8)
120 Bachelor
Honours Degree (8)
Under-Graduate
120
Advanced
Diploma (7)
120
Advanced
Certificate (6)
360
Bachelors
Degree (7)
480
Bachelors
Degree (8)
(Professional)
360
Diploma (6)
120
Higher
Certificate (5)
NSC
NSC with appropriate subject combinations and level of achievement
Australian model
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Bredillet, Conboy, Davidson and
Walker (2013)
For project management
• Advanced Diploma
• Post Graduate Diploma
• Not yet approved:
– Structured Masters in Project Management
– Research Masters in Project Management
– Doctoral degree in Project Management
Advanced Diploma in Project
Management
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Purpose
• To train project managers for the South
African industry.
• Discipline-based (project management)
• Professional
• Career focussed
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A student that has completed
this course will be able to:
• Manage uncomplicated projects
• Apply appropriate statistical methods to project
management problems
• Have an understanding of the current research trends in
project management.
• Manage project teams and stakeholder relations
• Manage project quality
• Manage project procurement
• Manage project risk using qualitative techniques.
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Advanced Diploma
Semester 1 subjects
Project management
principles and practice
Project people
management
Project quality
management
Overview of project
management research
Semester 2 subjects
Project cost management
and accounting
Introduction to project
procurement management
Introduction to project risk
management
Introduction to statistical
methods
Project management
principles and practice
• Background to projects including
– definition of a project, relationship among project, portfolio,
programme and operations management, the business value of
projects and the project life cycle.
• Concepts and theory of project management through
– initiation, planning, control, execution and close out with specific
emphasis on project scope management and time management.
• Scope management includes:
– collecting requirements, defining scope, creating the WBS,
Responsibility allocation matrix, verifying and controlling scope.
• Time management includes:
– definition of activities, sequencing of activities, estimation of activity
resources, estimation of activity durations, development of the project
schedule and control of the project schedule, using Microsoft Project
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Project people management
• Project Human Resource Management including:
– Develop human resource plan, acquire project team, develop
project team, manage project team, organisational structures
• Project communications management including:
– Plan communications, distribute information, manage
stakeholder expectations, report performance
• Behavioural perspectives on project management
including:
– Project management vs project leadership, Stakeholder
relations, Ethics, Emotional intelligence, interpersonal
communication, project culture, teamwork, stress and
conflict management, power and politics, talent management
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Project quality management
• Quality in General
– Definitions of quality, key quality terms and concepts, quality
philosophies and models
• Project quality planning
– Definition of project quality planning, cost benefit analysis, cost of
quality, cause and effect diagrams, flowcharts, checklists, Pareto
diagrams, histograms, control charts, scatter diagrams, benchmarking,
statistical sampling and design of experiments
• Project quality assurance
– Definition of project quality assurance; define affinity diagrams,
process decision program charts, interrelationship digraphs, tree
diagrams, prioritisation matrixes, network diagrams, matrix diagrams;
quality audit, process analysis
• Project quality control
– Define quality control, statistical sampling, inspection, quality control
measurements, validated changes, verified deliverables, work
performance information, change requests
• ISO 9001
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Overview of project
management research
• Current research trends in project management topics and research methods
• How to critically read research articles
• How to search for articles regarding a particular
subject
• How to summarise literature
• Referencing methods
• How to synthesize literature
• How to generate a literature review
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Project cost management
and accounting
• Project cost management
– Estimate costs, determine budget and control costs,
understand interaction of project cost management with
other project management knowledge areas, calculation of
project cash flows, earned value analysis
• Project accounting
– Basic accounting principles - financial statements and
analysis; accounting finance and project management;
Project financing; Project revenue and cash flows; financial
ratios; Du Pont analysis; income tax effects
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Introduction to project
procurement management
• Plan Procurements
– The process of documenting project purchasing decisions, specifying
the approach, and identifying potential sellers. Excluding contract
types, teaming agreements
• Conduct Procurements
– The process of obtaining seller responses, selecting a seller, generating
procurement statements of work and awarding a contract
• Administer Procurements
– The process of managing procurement relationships, monitoring
contract performance, and making changes and corrections as
needed.
• Close Procurements
– The process of completing each project procurement.
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Introduction to project risk
management
• Plan Risk Management
– The process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a
project.
• Identify Risks
– The process of determining which risks may affect the project and
documenting their characteristics.
• Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
– The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and
combining their probability of occurrence and impact.
• Plan Risk Responses
– The process of developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and
to reduce threats to project objectives.
• Monitor and Control Risks
– The process of implementing risk response plans, tracking identified risks,
monitoring residual risks, identifying new risks, and evaluating risk process
effectiveness throughout the project.
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Introduction to statistical methods
• Descriptive statistics using Excel
– Using excel to analyse quantitative and qualitative
data; Calculation of mean, mode maximum and
minimum; drawing up histograms, bar charts, pie
charts and line charts from real data; calculating
normal distribution and standard deviations
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Post Graduate Diploma in Project
Management
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Purpose
• To prepare project managers for the South African
industry to manage complex projects and
programmes within a greater organizational
portfolio.
• On completion of this diploma students will be able
to:
– provide input on strategic decisions in organisations, based
on decision theory, strategic management principles and
legal aspects of project management
– research and apply advanced project management
techniques in the organizational context.
– do research in project management at postgraduate level
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Post Graduate Diploma
Semester 1 subjects
Decision theory
Advanced risk
management
Strategic management
Qualitative research
methods
Semester 2 subjects
Integration management
capstone project
Advanced techniques in
project management
Legal aspects of project
management
Quantitative research
methods
Decision theory
• Financial analyses:
– Marginal analysis, breakeven analysis, expected value, marginal profit
and loss
• Decision making
– Roles in decision making, judgements, bias, improving evaluations, risk
attitudes, Utility functions, Law of diminishing marginal utility, Multicriteria decisions - Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), Construction
and analysis of decision trees, decision tree software
• Schedule optimisation
– Reducing project durations by crashing project activities, calculate
probabilities for completion times
• Simulation:
– Simulation steps, advantages and disadvantages of simulation, role of
computers in simulation, development of random variables, Forecasts
from models, modelling concepts, tools and techniques, dynamic
simulation
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Advanced risk management
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Revision of risk management concepts
Perform quantitative risk analysis
Probability distributions
Sensitivity analysis
Expected monetary value analysis
Modelling and simulation of risks
Trends in quantitative risk analysis
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Strategic management
and Entrepreneurship
• Introduction to the strategic management process:
an overview
• Vision and mission statement
• Exploring the environment
• The strategic plan
• Implementing and evaluating strategy
• The business plan
• Case studies and projects
• The ability to utilize strategic managerial concepts to
develop and implement a strategy for an
organization
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Qualitative research methods
• What is the difference between qualitative and
quantitative research?
• When to select qualitative research methods
• How has qualitative research methods been used in
project management research?
• Different qualitative methods: Focus group; Delphi
study; Case study technique
• Instruments used in qualitative methods: Interviews;
Surveys; Observation; Nominal group technique;
Critical incidence technique
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Integration management
capstone project
• Use project management simulation software
to practice:
– Project charter generation for all knowledge areas
– Project plan generation for all knowledge areas
– Perform integrated change control
– Direct and manage project execution
– Monitor and control project work
– Close project or phase
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Advanced techniques in
project management
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Critical chain
Project management offices
Project management maturity
Agile project management
Portfolio management
Resource levelling
Project knowledge management
Project management information systems
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Legal aspects of project
management
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Legal business entities
Taxation (SITE, PAYE, VAT, levies, etc.)
Legislation applicable to project management
Labour law
Basic contracting principles, law of contract,
Forms of contracts, Standard contracts,
Teaming agreements
• Socioeconomic responsibility of the business in
projects
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Quantitative research
methods
• When to select quantitative research methods
• How has quantitative research methods been
used in project management research?
• Different quantitative methods: survey
research, meta-analysis
• Instruments used in quantitative methods:
Surveys
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Assessment strategy
• Continuous assessment
• The following assessment activities are
planned:
– Group assignments (formative assessment)
– Individual portfolio (formative assessment)
– Tests (formative and summative assessment)
– Exam (summative assessment)
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The final marks will be calculated as
follows:
1. Group assignments
15%
2. Individual portfolio of evidence
15%
3. Semester test 1
20%
4. Semester test 2
20%
5. Final exam
30%
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Structured Masters in project
management (Year 1)
Semester 1 subjects
Portfolio and program
management
Project maturity models
and PMOs
Advanced project
management
methodologies and
frameworks
Academic writing
Semester 2 subjects
Advanced scheduling
techniques
Advanced people
management
Assessment of current
project management
practice
Proposal development
Structured Masters in project
management (Year 2)
Semester 1 subjects
Semester 2 subjects
Dissertation
Masterclass
workshops
Dissertation
Masterclass
workshops
Research masters in project
management (Year 1 and 2)
Semester 1 subjects
Semester 2 subjects
Thesis
Masterclass
workshops
Thesis
Masterclass
workshops
PhD in project management
(Year 1, 2 and 3)
Semester 1 subjects
Semester 2 subjects
Thesis
PhD workshops
Thesis
PhD workshops
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