615-275 Project Management

Note

Credit Points

Coordinator

Corequisites

615-245 System Analysis Design

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject will include aspects of the following topics: introduction to project management, reasons projects fail, the project life cycle, project tasks and deliverables, defining projects and establishing project contracts, requirements analysis. Feasibility analysis; cost estimation and cost/benefit analysis. Project scheduling: activity networks, critical path analysis, resource levelling. Risk management, quality assurance, managing project phases and project resources, testing and project delivery, post implementation review. Human aspects: interpersonal communication, teamwork, project leadership.

At the completion of this subject, students should:

• understand the motivation for use of good management practice in IS projects;

• be familiar with the various stages of the project life cycle, and the tasks and deliverables for each stage;

• have an appreciation of the risks involved in large projects and be familiar with techniques of risk management;

• be familiar with the various scheduling techniques available for project management, and be able to apply techniques such as PERT, CPM, and resource levelling to project plans;

• be capable of undertaking project costing and estimation;

• recognise that human resources are an integral part of IT projects and need to be carefully managed.

Assessment

End of semester written examination of up to three hours, one individual assignment, one group project and one group presentation. Project work of 4 hours per week. The weighting of the assessment components will be announced at the commencement of the subject.