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Qualification dates
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01 May 2027Oct 2027
Whether you’re a current or aspiring project manager or a project team member, this module supports you to improve your practice and make your contribution even more effective. You’ll gain an understanding of the essential steps in the project life cycle and reflect on the techniques available to you and how they can be applied. You’ll have the opportunity to review, in light of your new knowledge and experience, a project on which you have already worked. The topics covered include stakeholders, finance, risk, people, project administration and quality.
This module considers the whole life cycle of projects. The principles and processes are contextualised through reference to case studies, and you are encouraged to develop your reflections on the applicability, or not, of the principles and processes to projects within your organisation, industry or area of practice. You will review and evaluate frameworks and standards.
The module includes case studies from a variety of technological settings. Throughout the life cycle, the recurring topics of stakeholders, finance, risk, people, project administration and quality are discussed in the context of what the project manager is doing, responding to or monitoring. Tools and techniques for project managers are explained and evaluated to facilitate developing your expertise in choosing appropriate techniques and applying them in your professional practice. You will be encouraged to engage with the choice between using project management software or working through techniques manually to deepen your understanding and ability to evaluate output from software packages. Microsoft Project 2016 is provided, or you can use a package you are familiar with, provided it enables you to address the activities and assessments in the module.
This module is presented wholly online. Your study is directed from the module website, where a study planner guides you through the text materials, the activities, and the assessment. Where you need to study additional materials, such as case studies, articles, and journal papers, you will be directed to these.
This module is suitable for you if you have experience working on projects, possibly as a team member. You do not need to have worked on all phases of the project lifecycle.
If you have not worked on projects, you need to have experience working in organisations and be able to relate your experience to projects.
You would benefit from being aware of project management processes, although you do not need to be a practising project manager. In the assessment, you will need to reflect on project work that you have done and be able to relate the tools and techniques presented in the module to a project or a situation within a project within your experience.
You’ll get help and support from an assigned tutor throughout your module.
They’ll help by:
Online tutorials run throughout the module. While they’re not compulsory, we strongly encourage you to participate. Where possible, we’ll make recordings available.
Course work includes:
This module is only presented online – there are no printed materials.
All materials will be available on the module website, including:
The study material is online, so you’ll spend considerable time using a computer and the internet.
Some components might not be fully accessible using a screen reader. Mathematical notation can be particularly difficult to read in this way.
Written transcripts of audio components, figure descriptions and printable versions of texts are available.
If you’re using printed materials as part of reasonable adjustments to support your studies, note that printed versions of online materials are unavailable for this module.
To find out more about what kind of support and adjustments might be available, contact us or visit our disability support pages.
Project management (M815) starts once a year – in May.
It will next start in May 2027.
We expect it to start for the last time in May 2030.
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