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ISYS5001 Business Project Management

Semester 2, 2023

Acknowledgement of Country

We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present. The Centre for Aboriginal Studies aspires to contribute to positive social change for Indigenous

Australians through higher education and research.

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Curtin University is committed to supporting all our students and staff whether they are on campus, working

remotely or overseas. Your health, safety and wellbeing are our priority and the continuing COVID- 19 pandemic may require changes to the unit schedule, learning activities, delivery modes and assessment to provide flexible and safe options to our community. Curtin will endeavour to keep changes and disruptions to a minimum at all  times. For current advice and further information visit https://www.curtin.edu.au/novel-coronavirus/.

Syllabus

This unit provides a framework for project management, its context and processes. Students will study a range of topic areas including management of scope, time, cost, quality, communications and risk, as applied to business projects; team development; cost estimation techniques and tools; risk management; project resourcing, team member responsibility, accountability, and autonomy; Project management standards; accreditation and professional certification. Students will also learn and utilise contemporary project management software packages in the unit.

Introduction

This unit provides a framework for project management, its context and processes. Students will study a range of topic areas including management of scope, time, cost, quality, communications and risk, as applied to business projects; team development; cost estimation techniques and tools; risk management, and Project Management standards and accreditation. Students will also learn and utilise contemporary project management software packages in the unit.

All students in this unit will have access to a WEEKLY ONLINE Seminar. All students attend a synchronous weekly seminar. The only difference is that for some of you, it will be face to face, and others, it will be via a Blackboard Collaborate link (read on!). For those who have registered to attend a face to face seminar, plese check the venue information.

For those who have registered in an ONLINE seminar, your venue is listed as‘ONLINE’ which means you attend your weekly online seminar on Blackboard. For those students who are attending the seminar ONLINE, you are still registered into a specific online class through you student OASIS timetable. This means you will attend your ONLINE weekly seminar on a particular day and time (for one hour). All students in this unit have the opportunity to contact me for additional consultation. I am available for virtual consult. My consult times are listed in the Unit Outline and in the contacts tab on blackboard. I  encourage all students to connect during my scheduled hours.

Unit Learning Outcomes

All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of six Graduate Capabilities during their course of study. These

inform an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and capabilities which employers would value in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the

Graduate Capabilities through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes notify you of what you are expected to know,

understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully

designed to test your knowledge of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.

Your course has been designed so that on graduating you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Capabilities through the assurance of learning processes in each unit.

On successful completion of this unit students can:

Graduate

Capabilities

addressed

1

Collaborate on a group project as team leader or active team member with well established lines of responsibility and accountability

2

Analyze and evaluate the use of a contemporary Project Management tools to plan and manage a small project

3

Analyze research and utilise new knowledge from local and international sources of information and knowledge relevant to the field of Project Management

4

Apply an appropriate understanding of academic and professional integrity principles and apply writing, referencing and acknowledgement conventions required for the

discipline

Curtin's Graduate Capabilities

Apply discipline

knowledge, principles and concepts

Innovative, creative and

entrepreneurial

Effective communicators with digital competency

Globally engaged and responsive

Culturally competent to engage

respectfully with local First Peoples and other diverse cultures

Industry connected and career capable

Find out more about Curtin's Graduate Capabilities at the Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence Centre (LITEC) website: litec.curtin.edu.au

Learning Activities

On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1.     Produce written documentation and deliver presentations,

2.   Apply  appropriate  methods for situation/problem analysis, creative thinking,  problem solving, generating alternative solutions, decision making,

3.   Work  co-operatively  and  successfully  as  a  member  of  a  team  or  individually  and  unsupervised  when required  and  identify,  research,  absorb  and  utilize  new  knowledge  from   known  or  new  sources  of information and knowledge relevant for the field of Project Management.

All students in this unit participate in the weekly learning activities, whether that is face to face or you have opted to register into an online seminar. For those students that have opted to attend an online seminar, you will be participating in your weekly activities online. Simply go to Blackboard to attend the live session.

Learning Resources

Essential texts

The required textbook(s) for this unit are:

l Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 11th Edition

(ISBN/ISSN: 978- 1- 119-80383-6)

Online resources

l Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 11th Edition

(https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Project+Management%3A+A+Managerial+Approach%2C+11th+Edition-p- 9781119803812)

(ISBN/ISSN: 978- 1- 119-80383-6)

Assessment

Assessment policy exemptions

l There are no exemptions to the assessment policy

Assessment schedule

Task

Value %

Date Due

Unit

Learning

Outcome(s)

Assessed

Late

Assessments Accepted?*

Assessment

Extensions

Considered?*

1

Research Report

30%

Week: Week 9

Day: Tuesday 19

Sept 2023

Time: 11:59 p.m.

2,3,4

Yes

Yes

2

Project Plan

40%

Week: Week 13

Day: Tuesday 17 Oct 2023

Time: 11:59 p.m.

1,2,3,4

Yes

Yes

3

Individual Assessment

30%

Week: Week 15

Day: Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023

Time: 11:59 p.m.

2,3,4

Yes

Yes

*Please refer to the Late Assessment and the Assessment Extension sections below for specific details and conditions.

Detailed information on assessment tasks

1. Research Report – Due Tuesday, 19 Sept  2023 @ 11:59 p.m.

Submit: Submit your completed assessment to the blackboard under the Assessment Folder.

Worth: this assessment is worth 30% of your final grade

2. Project Plan (Teamwork Assessment and Peer Reflection) Due Tuesday 17 Oct 2023 @ 11:59 p.m.

Submit: Submit your completed assessment to the blackboard under the Assessment Folder.

Worth: this assessment is worth 40% of your final grade.

3. Individual Assessment Due Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023 @ 11:59 p.m.

Submit: Submit your completed assessment to the blackboard under the Assessment Folder.

Worth: this assessment is worth 30% of your final grade

Pass requirements

l Must achieve an overall mark equal to or above 50%.

l Must achieve an overall mark equal to or above 50% and attempt all assessments.

l Must achieve an overall mark equal to or above 50% and satisfactorily demonstrate achievement of the unit learning outcomes.

l Must achieve an overall mark equal to or above 50%, attempt all assessments and satisfactorily demonstrate achievement of the unit learning outcomes

Assessment Moderation

Fair assessment through moderation

Moderation describes a quality assurance process to ensure that assessments are appropriate to the learning

outcomes, and that students work is evaluated consistently by assessors. Minimum standards for the moderation

of assessments are described in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual, available from

policies.curtin.edu.au/findapolicy/

Pre-marking moderation

A co-assessor is assigned to this unit to review all assessment tasks and marking criteria/rubrics, and monitor and confirm  integrity  of  results. Assessment tasks  are  provided to  students  prior  to the  assessment task,  marking criteria are provided to students, assessors are provided with marking guides/rubric and sufficient information to ensure fair and consistent evaluation of student work.

Intra-marking / Post-marking moderation

1.   Second marking of student work samples near grade boundaries

2.   Second  marking  of  borderline  student  work;  or  a  process  of  review  and  validation  of  decisions  where students have not met the pass requirements

3.   Analysis of the variances between markers and locations, or analysis of item validity for eTests

4.   Second marking of a random sample to check for consistent application of marking criteria and standards

Late assessment

Where the submission of a late assessment is permitted, late penalties will be consistently applied in this unit.

Where a late assessment is permitted for an assessment item or the entirety of the unit (refer to the Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline) and the student does not have an approved assessment extension:

1.    For assessment items submitted within the first 24 hours after the due date/time, students will be penalised by a deduction of 5% of the total marks allocated for the assessment task;

2.    For each additional 24 hour period commenced an additional penalty of 10% of the total marks allocated for the assessment item will be deducted; and

3.   Assessment items submitted more than 168 hours late (7 calendar days) will receive a mark of zero.

Where late assessment is NOT permitted for an assessment item or the entirety of the unit (refer to the

Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline) and the student does not have an approved assessment extension:

1.   All assessment items submitted after the due date/time will receive a mark of zero.

Assessment extension

Where an application for an assessment extension is permitted for an assessment item(s) within this unit (refer to the Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline):

1.   A student who is unable to complete an assessment item by/on the due date/time as a result of exceptional circumstances beyond the student’s control, may apply for an assessment extension on the Assessment

Extension Application Form as prescribed by the Academic Registrar. The form is available on the Forms page at https://students.curtin.edu.au/essentials/forms-documents/forms/ and also within the student's   OASIS (My Studies tab – Quick Forms) account.

2.   The student will be expected to submit their application for an Assessment Extension with supporting documentation via the online form.

3.   Timely submission of this information supports the assessment process. For applications that are declined, delayed submission may have significant ramifications on the possible marks awarded.

4.   An application may be accepted up to five working days after the due date/time of the assessment item where the student is able to provide a verifiable explanation as to why they were not able to submit the application prior to the assessment due date/time

Where an application for an assessment extension is NOT permitted for an assessment item(s) within this unit (refer to the Assessment Schedule table in this Unit Outline):

1.   All assessment items submitted after the due date/time will be subject to late penalties or receive a mark of zero depending on the unit permitting late assessment submissions.