Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate project management approaches in complex projects
- Adapt processes across interdisciplinary project teams in high-technology projects.
- Implement project management risk mitigation approaches in high-technology complex projects.
- Adapt innovation management for high-technology complex projects.
- Develop critical project management skills.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Develop critical and analytical thinking skills.
- Manage interdisciplinary team structures.
- Analyse project management approaches.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- How organisations strategically implement business practices with high-technology complex products .
- Project management risks in complex projects and risk mitigation.
- 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.
- How organisational capabilities for high-technology complex products innovation management may vary from high volume products and services.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 24 |
| Independent Study | 126 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Chartered Associate for Project management. https://www.apm.org.uk
Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply. https://www.cips.org
Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport. https://ciltuk.org.uk
Institute of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.imeche.org
Project Management Institute. https://www.pmi.org
Journal Articles
Research Policy.
Production and Operations Management.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
Journal of Operations Management.
Production Planning and Control.
Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Project Management Journal.
Technovation.
International Journal of Project Management.
Textbooks
Flyvbjerg, B., Bruzelius, N., Rothengatter, W. ( 2003). Megaprojects and Risks: An anatomy of ambition.. Cambridge University Press.
Flyvbjerg, B. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management. Oxford University Press.
Prencipe, A., Davies, A., and Hobday, M. (2003). The Business of Systems Integration. Oxford University Press.
Maylor, H. (2010). Project Management. Prentice Hall.
Brown, S. & Bessant, J. (2018). Strategic Operations Management. Routledge.
Chapman, R. (2019). The Rules of Project Risk Management: Implementation Guidelines for Major Projects. Routledge.
Shina, S. (2014). Engineering Project Management for the 福利着片 Hight Technology Industry. McGraw-Hill.
Murray-Webster, R., & Dalcher, D. (2019). APM Body of Knowledge. Association for Project Management.
Tidd, J. & Bessant, J. ( 2018). Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change. Wiley.
Shenhar, A., Dvir, D. (2007). Reinventing Project Management: Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation. Harvard Business School Press.
Davies, A. & Hobday, M. (2005). The Business of Projects. Cambridge University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we鈥檒l formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Report | 100% |
Referral
This is how we鈥檒l assess you if you don鈥檛 meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Report | 100% |