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FIT5180

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Information Technology

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

This unit, together with FIT5057 Project management, and FIT5178 Applied project management, gives a full coverage of the main areas of Project Management. These units will give students the knowledge and skills needed to work in project planning, project control, or as an entry level project manager in industry. The emphasis in FIT5180 is on the business and legal aspects of planning and executing projects. Project management is a common pathway to higher management in industry. These topics are especially important to students who intend to work as project managers and take part in the sales, contract administration, and strategic planning of an organisation.

Outcomes

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

  1. demonstrate financial and accounting calculations for projects, including in depth costing, balance sheet, NPV, IRR, capital budgeting, cash flow, variance analysis;
  2. analyse, critique and evaluate the legal issues that occur in project management, including issues business law, contract law, international law, understanding legal project management principles;
  3. apply project management principles to the practice of law, litigation matters, managing disputes, administrative and judicial way of solving disputes, contract risk analysis, liability in project management;
  4. evaluate and critique the modern theory of entrepreneurship in relation to project management, including evaluation of the types of entrepreneurs, problem faced by entrepreneurs, skills and knowledge necessary for entrepreneurs, innovative start-ups, sources of finance, opportunity recognition, valuation and negotiations, financial and accounting issues.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 40%; In-semester assessment: 60%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Two hours of lectures
  • One 2-hour tutorial

(b.) Study schedule for off-campus students:

Off-campus students generally do not attend lecture and tutorial sessions, however should plan to spend equivalent time working through the relevant resources and participating in discussion groups each week.

(c.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 8 hours independent study per week for completing lab and project work, private study and revision.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Joze Kuzic

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Project management

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/