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Leadership, Management, Professionalism, Ethics and Teamwork
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Communication
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Project Context
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Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK)
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Agile Project Planning
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Agile Project Management
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Project Scope Management
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Quality & Risk Management
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Project Control and Governance
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Identify and describe the impact of business context on a software development project, including understanding the role professional ethics plays in the conduct of a successful project
- Evaluate the features of traditional and agile approaches to managing software development to synthesise an appropriate project management approach for a project in a business context
- Apply key project management skills such as scope determination; task decomposition; effort estimation, schedule creation and tracking; progress reporting; and management of risk and quality
- Use research, critical thinking and reflection to formulate and communicate an argument concerning project management concepts.
- Demonstrate improved leadership, teamwork and collaboration skills
Indicative Assessment
- Small group assignments incorporating written and oral components (40) [LO 1,4,5]
- Workshop participation (10) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
- Written examination (50) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
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Workload
Up to twelve two-hour lectures, twelve one-hour lectures, twelve two-hour workshop sessions, plus 5 hours independent study per week to a total of 130 hours.
Inherent Requirements
None
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
None
Preliminary Reading
- Jeff Patton and Peter Economy. User story mapping: discover the whole story, build the right product. O'Reilly, 2014.
- Jim Highsmith. Agile Project Managment. Addison-Wesley, 2010.
- Robert K. Wysocki. Effective project management: traditional, agile, extreme. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- Michele Sliger and Stacia Broderick. The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility.
- Cynthia Stackpole Snyder. A User's Manual to the PMBOK Guide 5th Edition, 2013.
- Bertrand Meyer. Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly. Springer, 2014.
- Erik Larson and Clifford Gray. Project Management: The Managerial Process. 5th Edition, 2011.
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
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| Units | EFTSL |
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| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
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| 2024 | $4980 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
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| 2024 | $6360 |
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