Four hours per week (48 hours)

Hawthorn

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

Aims & Objectives:

• Describe the types of projects that are likely to occur in aviation, the project lifecycle and how strategic management relates to projects
• Explain project definition, cost estimation, project financing and feasibility and the implications of project creep.
• Describe project planning, typical organisational structures associated with projects and how communication, authority and responsibility affect projects.
• Explain and discuss the issues associated with second and third parties to project.
• Apply project management principles; including work breakdown structures, critical path and PERT, sensitivity analysis and methods for recovering a schedule.
• Explain contracts and legal issues that relate to project management.
• Explain risk and risk management within projects.
• Describe systems engineering as it relates to project management.
• Explain human resource management as it pertains to project management.
• Explain the issues associated with project completion or termination.

Teaching Methods:

Classroom based

Assessment:

• Project Scheduling exercise worth 20%
• Individual research paper worth 40%
• Examination (2 hours) worth 40%

Generic Skills Outcomes:

• Critical Thinking
• Analysis skills
• Written communication skills
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems

Content:

• What is a project?
• The Project Business Case
• Types of projects
• The project lifecycle
• Strategic management and projects
• The performance, cost and schedule triangle
• Project definition

• Cost estimation
• Project feasibility
• Project creep

• Project organizational structures
• Lines of communication
• Authority and responsibility within a project
• How the project fits within the larger organization
• Dealing with second and third parties to the project
• Allocation of organizational resources to the project

• Tracking project progress
• The critical path method
• Work breakdown structures
• Drawing the logic network
• Defining the critical path
• Managing the critical path
• Sensitivity analysis
• Crashing the project to improve schedule

• Budgeted costs and actual costs
• Earned Value analysis

• Overview of systems engineering principles
• Requirements and specifications
• Certification as it applies to aviation
• Configuration management
• Quality management

• Successful completion
• Cancelling a project

Textbooks:

Flouris, T & Lock, D 2008, Aviation Project Management, Ashgate, Hampshire, UK.

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