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PMGT3857: International Project Management (2020 - Semester 2)
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| Unit: | PMGT3857: International Project Management (6 CP) |
| Mode: | Normal-Day |
| On Offer: | Yes |
| Level: | Senior |
| Faculty/School: | Project Management |
| Unit Coordinator/s: |
Matous, Petr
Steinhauer, Cory |
| Session options: | Semester 2 |
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| Campus: | Camperdown/Darlington |
| Pre-Requisites: | None. |
| Brief Handbook Description: | This UOS provides specific guidelines for achieving international project success. It addresses the need for modern hard and soft skills, and project management techniques geared and suited to global projects. It provides opportunity for students to have an orientation towards lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. The critical success factors for managing international projects together with management issues related to vendors and outsourcing across national boundaries are also discussed. It further deals with managing organisations effectively to address cross-cultural, social, and political issues. |
| Assumed Knowledge: | None. |
| Lecturer/s: |
Steinhauer, Cory
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| Tutor/s: | Steinhauer, Cory - cory.steinhauer@sydney.edu.au | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Timetable: | PMGT3857 Timetable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Attributes listed here represent the key course goals (see Course Map tab) designated for this unit. The list below describes how these attributes are developed through practice in the unit. See Learning Outcomes and Assessment tabs for details of how these attributes are assessed.
| Attribute Development Method | Attribute Developed |
| Learning about project globalisation and work across geographical and cultural distance. | Project Development (Level 3) |
| Eliciting and modelling complex project networks. Conducting secondary data gathering and primary data surveys to analyse international project environments. | Project Methods (Level 3) |
| Workshops and e-learning based on international project management scenarios. Application experience through case analysis and meta-analysis. | Project Leadership (Level 3) |
| Teamwork activities, report writing and oral presentations. | Project Communication (Level 3) |
For explanation of attributes and levels see Project Management Learning Progression Table 2019.
Learning outcomes are the key abilities and knowledge that will be assessed in this unit. They are listed according to the course goal supported by each. See Assessment Tab for details how each outcome is assessed.
Project Leadership (Level 3)| Assessment Methods: |
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| Assessment Description: |
Students will start working on their pair projects (assessment 1, 2 and 3) from the beginning of the semester. They will develop, within parameters, project topics which will include, for example, case studies of existing international projects or comparative research of international project environments. After completing their videos and slide decks, students will conduct a meta-analysis of common challenges across the examined cases in diverse countries and develop a project plan. Content knowledge will be tested by two individual written quizzes during the semester. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * means this assessment must be repeated or will be replaced with a different assessment if missed due to special consideration. Late submissions will incur a penalty of 5% per day for up to 7 days starting directly after the cut off time. This means 5% will be deducted even if submitted on the due day but after the cut-off time. After one week, assessments will no longer be marked receive a 0 mark. IMPORTANT: There may be statistically defensible moderation when combining the marks from each component to ensure consistency of marking between markers, and alignment of final grades with unit outcomes. The University has authorised and mandated the use of text-based similarity detecting software Turnitin for all text-based written assignments. |
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| Assessment Feedback: | Students will receive in-depth feedback on their oral presentations during the semester, which will guide their project progress toward the final report. Furthermore, regular tests of the course content will be conducted and the students answers will be discussed in the class. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Policies & Procedures: | See the policies page of the faculty website at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/student-policies/ for information regarding university policies and local provisions and procedures within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. |
Note that the "Weeks" referred to in this Schedule are those of the official university semester calendar https://web.timetable.usyd.edu.au/calendar.jsp
| Week | Description |
| Week 1 | Introduction, Trends, Characteristics, Failures X Successes |
| Week 2 | Issues in International Project Management |
| Week 3 | Define the Project, Identify and Analyse Stakeholders |
| Week 4 | International Project Organisation and Teams |
| Week 5 | Develop the Project Plan |
| Assessment Due: Educational Video Project | |
| Week 6 | Technology, Guidelines, Collaboration |
| Assessment Due: Quiz 1* | |
| Week 7 | Resource Allocation, Change Management, Metrics |
| Week 8 | Managing Outsourcing and Vendors |
| Assessment Due: International Project Pitch | |
| Week 9 | Effective Communication |
| Week 10 | Inside View: Issues, User Experience, Lessons Learned |
| Week 11 | Types of International Global Projects, Merges and Acquisitions |
| Assessment Due: Quiz 2* | |
| Week 12 | New Products/Services impacts under the International Project Management lenses. |
| Assessment Due: International Project Plan | |
| Week 13 | Lecture: Wrap-up, next steps |
Course Relations
The following is a list of courses which have added this Unit to their structure.
Course Goals
This unit contributes to the achievement of the following course goals:
| Attribute | Practiced | Assessed |
| Project Leadership (Level 3) | Yes | 21.75% |
| Project Communication (Level 3) | Yes | 22.75% |
| Project Development (Level 3) | Yes | 27.75% |
| Project Delivery (Level 3) | No | 0% |
| Project Methods (Level 3) | Yes | 27.75% |
| Professional Practice (Level 3) | No | 0% |
These goals are selected from Project Management Learning Progression Table 2019 which defines overall goals for courses where this unit is primarily offered. See Project Management Learning Progression Table 2019 for details of the attributes and levels to be developed in the course as a whole. Percentage figures alongside each course goal provide a rough indication of their relative weighting in assessment for this unit. Note that not all goals are necessarily part of assessment. Some may be more about practice activity. See Learning outcomes for details of what is assessed in relation to each goal and Assessment for details of how the outcome is assessed. See Attributes for details of practice provided for each goal.
