Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Analyse project management approaches.
- Develop critical and analytical thinking skills.
- Manage interdisciplinary team structures.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Adapt processes across interdisciplinary project teams in high-technology projects.
- Apply appropriate project management approaches in complex projects
- Adapt innovation management for high-technology complex projects.
- Implement project management risk mitigation approaches in high-technology complex projects.
- Develop critical project management skills.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Project management risks in complex projects and risk mitigation.
- How organisational capabilities for high-technology complex products innovation management may vary from high volume products and services.
- How organisations strategically implement business practices with high-technology complex products .
- Fundamental project management from ideation, planning, implementation, control, and closure.
- Interdisciplinary project teams, stakeholders, and the role of project managers in new and emergent high-technology complex projects.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent TV | 126 |
Lecture | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Institute of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.imeche.org
Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply. https://www.cips.org
Chartered Associate for Project management. https://www.apm.org.uk
Project Management Institute. https://www.pmi.org
Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport. https://ciltuk.org.uk
Journal Articles
Technovation.
Production and Operations Management.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Production Planning and Control.
International Journal of Project Management.
Research Policy.
Project Management Journal.
Journal of Operations Management.
Textbooks
Prencipe, A., Davies, A., and Hobday, M. (2003). The Business of Systems Integration. Oxford University Press.
Flyvbjerg, B. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management. Oxford University Press.
Flyvbjerg, B., Bruzelius, N., Rothengatter, W. ( 2003). Megaprojects and Risks: An anatomy of ambition.. Cambridge University Press.
Brown, S. & Bessant, J. (2018). Strategic Operations Management. Routledge.
Murray-Webster, R., & Dalcher, D. (2019). APM Body of Knowledge. Association for Project Management.
Shina, S. (2014). Engineering Project Management for the Global Hight Technology Industry. McGraw-Hill.
Chapman, R. (2019). The Rules of Project Risk Management: Implementation Guidelines for Major Projects. Routledge.
Tidd, J. & Bessant, J. ( 2018). Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change. Wiley.
Davies, A. & Hobday, M. (2005). The Business of Projects. Cambridge University Press.
Maylor, H. (2010). Project Management. Prentice Hall.
Shenhar, A., Dvir, D. (2007). Reinventing Project Management: Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation. Harvard Business School Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Report | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Report | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Report | 100% |