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Management of It Projects Course Outline

This document provides information about the UCI301 Project Management course. The course introduces key concepts in project management including planning, leadership, monitoring, control, and risk identification. The expected learning outcomes are for students to prepare detailed project plans, identify success factors, and provide advice on project management. The course content covers the project lifecycle, initiation, planning, execution, closure, risk management, and success criteria. Assessment is 30% continuous and 70% examination.

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Management of It Projects Course Outline

This document provides information about the UCI301 Project Management course. The course introduces key concepts in project management including planning, leadership, monitoring, control, and risk identification. The expected learning outcomes are for students to prepare detailed project plans, identify success factors, and provide advice on project management. The course content covers the project lifecycle, initiation, planning, execution, closure, risk management, and success criteria. Assessment is 30% continuous and 70% examination.

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Course Code: UCI301

Course Title: PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Course Purpose

The course introduces the concept of project management, project support, leadership,
monitoring and control and risk identification.

Expected Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

1. Prepare a detailed plan of Scheduling, execution, monitoring, risk identification and


control.
2. Identify and explain project success factors.
3. Provide sound advice on project management.

Course Contents

Introduction to Project Management: Definitions of a project, examples of typical projects,


project management, brief history of project management as a discipline, project manager,
qualities and responsibilities of a project manager and project team;

Project Life Cycle: General description of the project life cycle phases;

Initiation Phase: Project ideas and idea screening, project feasibility study, project proposal
format, project standards and procedures, capital project evaluation techniques (cost/benefit
analysis, accounting rate of return, payback period, net present value method, profitability index
and internal rate of return);

Planning and Organizing Phase: Detailed planning of the project, project scheduling and
sequencing, work breakdown structure, network diagrams, critical path method, program
evaluation and review technique, least cost scheduling(crashing), floats, Gantt charts, project
organization structures, organizing for resources and recruitment of project team;

Project Execution and Control Phase: Actual work on various tasks, reporting quality, cost,
schedule, technical and financial status of a project, comparing actual performance with planned
performance, investigation of variances, review of the metrics and variances;

Project Closure Phase: Tasks undertaken, lessons learnt;

Project Stages Exit Criteria: Exit information, exit signatures;


Risk Management: Risk and opportunity, examples of project risks, risk identification (brain
storming, Delphi technique, lessons learn from previous projects), risk quantification, risk
response strategies, risk monitoring and control;

Project Success Criteria and Success Factors: Project manager, project team, organizing,
external environment, configuration management, force field analysis;

Teaching Methodology:
Lectures, tutorials and discussion.

Instructional Materials/Equipment
Class with visual aids

Course Assessment/Student Performance


Continuous Assessment: 30%
Examination: 70%
(Grading as detailed under examination regulations)

Recommended Readings

1. Chandra, P (1995). Projects: Planning, Analysis, Selection, Implementation and


Review. (4th.ed.). New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Gardiner, P (2004). Project Management. London: Palgrave Macmillan
3. Meredith, J. R & Mantel, S. J (2002). Project management; A Managerial Approach
(4th.ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
4. Nagarajan, K (2001). Project Management. New Delhi: New Age International.
5. Yeates, D & Cadles, J (1996). Project Management for Information Systems (5th.ed.)
London: Pitman.

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