Master of Project Management
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This unit introduces project management as a dynamic profession that plays a pivotal role in effectively planning, organising, and executing tasks to achieve specific goals within a defined timeframe and budget. The ability to manage projects efficiently has become a crucial skill for organisations and individuals alike. This unit focuses on project management essentials – the Project Management Institute project domains, amongst others – which encompass a range of principles, methodologies, and tools that empower project managers to navigate complexity, mitigate risks, and deliver successful project outcomes. The unit serves as a gateway into the fundamental concepts of project management, exploring key areas such as project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and project closure. By mastering these essentials, you will enhance your ability to drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and achieve consistent project success in diverse industries and sectors.

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This unit explores systems thinking and a systems approach towards all project performance domains. Understanding of a systems approach will help project managers to have an integrated understanding of the project. This will achieve better outcomes and value for the customers and project stakeholders.

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This unit will provide you with the fundamental skills and knowledge to manage internal stakeholders and to appreciate the role and contribution of the Project Manager in facilitating outcomes critical for the success of a project. It will specifically focus on the competencies required to effectively lead, motivate and manage individuals within the project team. The unit provides an understanding of how to undertake negotiation and conflict resolution and recognise individual and cultural differences and different communication styles appearing in project teams.

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This unit identifies the optimal procurement strategy for a project from a client’s perspective – taking a strategic approach and positions procurement in the project lifecycle and provides the detail required to be an effective client or tenderer for projects. Further, this unit considers project procurement from a contractor and contract management perspective recognising that procurement is a strategic and systematic process of acquiring the necessary goods, services, and resources required to successfully initiate, execute, and complete a project. This vital aspect of project management involves planning, sourcing, negotiating, and managing relationships with suppliers and vendors to ensure that the project’s objectives are met within specified timelines, budget constraints, and quality standards. Effective project management procurement involves a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics, risk assessment, contract management, and stakeholder collaboration.

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This unit will provide you with relevant tools and techniques to plan and manage key project performance measures and indicators such as time, cost, budget and resources. You will be exposed to modern project performance domains, principles, frameworks and practices. The dynamics of projects and the environment they are undertaken are constantly changing. As such, establishing appropriate metrics, baselines and thresholds for expected performance and measurement, analysis and evaluation is critical to ensure that the project is progressing as planned, timely and appropriate actions are undertaken to keep project performance on track, and maintain acceptable performance.

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This unit allows you to solve discipline specific real world problems and effectively communicate processes and solutions within the context of your professional practice. You will be equipped with applied research knowledge and skills. As a contemporary Project Manager, this unit will guide you to gather the best available evidence to make informed decisions, solve problems, establish best practice as well as innovate and develop within your project.

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In this unit you will explore project problems which can be ill-defined or complex. You will apply skills previously gained in your degree to an advanced project management problem domain. This will allow you to determine specific project outcomes and precisely define the elements of your project.

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In this unit you will learn how to identify, evaluate, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the risk and opportunities for your project or program. Risks are then allocated and effectively managed. You will also study contemporary risk treatments available for both client and tenderers/contractors to effectively manage their project or program.

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This unit integrates the knowledge and skills required to plan, manage and execute a major

and complex program comprising multiple and related projects within a topical case study involving a real-world styled venture. This unit will occur within robust governance and assurance settings, which will guide the program and projects through a well-defined stage-gate

process, into commissioning and handover, and finally benefits realisation after the transition to business as usual. In this unit, you will develop and acquire practical program/project management experience in a ‘real-world styled’ venture within an authentic learning environment.

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Understanding emerging trends and innovations in project management is of paramount importance in today’s dynamic and competitive project and business environments. These trends offer valuable insights into evolving technologies, methodologies and market demands that can significantly impact project outcomes. By staying informed and embracing innovation, project managers can enhance their ability to adapt to change, optimise processes for efficiency, and address complex challenges. Moreover, a proactive and evidence-based approach to adopting emerging trends enables organisations to maintain a competitive edge and deliver projects that align with the evolving needs of stakeholders. Ultimately, this understanding empowers project management professionals to lead with foresight, navigate uncertainties, and consistently deliver results that drive both individual and organisational success.

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This unit will provide you with advanced skills and knowledge to manage organisational and people issues required to achieve outcomes critical for the success of projects in national and global contexts. The unit will focus on the aspects of project governance, organisational culture, organisational development and change, high-performance teams and leadership in organisations. It will provide the understanding of effectively leading and managing project teams and their performance while managing constraints in time, cost and quality, as well as social, political and environmental influences.

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This unit explores the detailed links between the organisational business strategy and the projects, programs and portfolios delivered by global organisations. It teaches you how to use tools and techniques to extract maximum value from the project, program and portfolio and execute strategies for delivering optimal benefit for organisations. This unit links business strategy theories with the project, program and portfolio practices.

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This unit focuses on the principles and practice of management in health such as; organisational management; strategic management; resource management including financial and human resource management; information management; project management and change management. Develop analytical, evaluative and political skills for organisations characterised by constant change.

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The health industry is one of the largest in Australia. The proficient delivery of these essential services has a genuine effect on people’s lives, which is why the successful management of health services is vital to society as a whole.

In this unit you will learn about contemporary issues in health management, and strategies to address these problems. With strategic leadership it is possible to improve the accessibility and quality of various health services, even in the midst of industry-wide complexity and ongoing change.

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Health and community services are affected by emergencies and disasters. It is critical that

managers of these services are able to assess the risk and plan for business continuity. In this unit you will explore the types, nature and impact of disasters and emergencies on

communities in local, national and international contexts. You will also apply approaches to

disaster risk management and building resilience in health and community services.

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Preparation is a fundamental concern for disaster emergency services and agencies. In this unit you will engage in the real-world assessment of disaster risk and the strategies of forming resilient disaster and emergency response processes. You will reflect on the international understanding of disaster risk, locating disaster and emergency response in a global context, based on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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This unit highlights inclusive disaster response and recovery in a variety of contexts. It is imperative in the wake of a disaster or emergency situation that affected individuals and communities have access to needed relief within an enabling environment that allows them to recover and build sustainable resilience to the physical, social, environmental and economic impacts of future emergency and disaster events. Upon completion of this unit you will have a greater understanding of how to implement an inclusive disaster response and develop funding proposals.

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Leadership is essential to the effective coordination of resources in emergency and disaster scenarios. You will examine the underlying drivers of risk – including increasing global interdependencies and uneven economic development – and have the opportunity to practice environmental scanning, stakeholder mapping, crisis communication planning and decision-making. All within a rapidly-changing environment. You will also learn how to prepare and deliver a media briefing using effective communication strategies and protocol.

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IT systems are powerful tools capable of solving business problems, but to do so operational problems need first to be identified and defined. This unit equips you with both soft skills – to collaborate as part of a team and identify problems – and technical skills in system design to navigate complexities and solve problems.

You will apply visual communication tools as analytical tools to explain design outputs and gain feedback from users and peers, after which you will devise elegant design solutions to resolve contemporary industry problems.

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Organisations are continually transforming to leverage the potential of information systems. A key part of this ongoing evolution is ensuring leadership teams are aware of the nature of an information system, how best to manage its components and subsystems effectively, and how to make informed decisions based on data.

This purpose of this is to provide insights into how to appropriately identify issues facing organisations, and then develop information systems that help resolve these issues.

Drawing on real-world case studies, you explore core concepts including the components of information systems, the design cycle, business analytics, and ethical and privacy considerations.

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Information systems and enterprises are increasingly interwoven. This isn’t surprising when it is information systems that play a key role in enabling enterprises to achieve their strategic objectives.

This is a transitionary unit that highlights the important role of managers who, with a nuanced understanding of information systems, can direct the use of appropriate systems in order to achieve strategic objectives or to improve existing capabilities.

About this unit

IT systems are powerful tools capable of solving business problems, but to do so operational problems need first to be identified and defined. This unit equips you with both soft skills – to collaborate as part of a team and identify problems – and technical skills in system design to navigate complexities and solve problems.

You will apply visual communication tools as analytical tools to explain design outputs and gain feedback from users and peers, after which you will devise elegant design solutions to resolve contemporary industry problems.

About this unit

Organisations are continually transforming to leverage the potential of information systems. A key part of this ongoing evolution is ensuring leadership teams are aware of the nature of an information system, how best to manage its components and subsystems effectively, and how to make informed decisions based on data.

This purpose of this is to provide insights into how to appropriately identify issues facing organisations, and then develop information systems that help resolve these issues.

Drawing on real-world case studies, you explore core concepts including the components of information systems, the design cycle, business analytics, and ethical and privacy considerations.

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Business Analysis is a fascinating domain. With the increased presence of digital technologies now affecting the majority of new solutions, people need to have multidisciplinary skills in business; process and project management; and Information Technology.

You will develop a deeper understanding of business solutions that leverage digital technologies while delivering business value, situated within the context of managing internal and external stakeholder relationships.

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This unit introduces a Business Process Management lifecycle and walks you through all the stages of improving a process from beginning to end.

Process modelling plays a crucial role across multiple phases of the lifecycle and is specifically covered in depth as an essential analysis tool and a platform for process improvements and redesign.

This unit will develop specific skills for Business Process modelling and improvement as well as general skills in critical thinking, teamwork, presentation and writing skills.

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Investigate the architectural principles that underpin modern computer systems: how they are structured and how they operate.

In this unit you will build your own computer system using simulation software, learn about the ongoing evolution of computer systems, and master fundamental hardware and software concepts that allow you to understand the building blocks that comprise computer systems.

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Cyber security breaches – network infiltration, malware attacks, personal and corporate data theft – are commonplace and on the rise. In an increasingly globalised world with interconnected computer systems, the risks of malicious cyber security attacks are already threatening to have a global impact.

This unit introduces essential information security concepts such as confidentiality, integrity and availability. You will study the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model in order to better understand network communications, and enhance your ability to identify information security vulnerabilities and threats in a range of networked scenarios.

You will develop a practical skill set that allows you to identify and anticipate cyber security risks and vulnerabilities, and work towards reinforcing cyber security practices in an organisation through the use of numerous strategies including cryptography, identity control, and general network and communications security.

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This unit offers students a practical introduction to data analytics, and its application to making decisions. Students will learn common methods for quantitative and computational analytics, through which they can gain an overview of key concepts, skills, and technologies for sourcing data, performing data analysis, and producing appropriate visualisations.

While the course covers relevant technologies for data analytics and information visualisation, the focus is on asking the right questions and solving related problems which are driven from the business/organisational perspective. Students will work with both structured and unstructured data, and will be encouraged to work with open data to address real-life problems in ways that align with ethical principles and good data governance.