BMG944 (65875) Project Management L7 Module Handbook Sem1 2024/25

BMG944 Aim and Learning Outcomes

Module Rationale

The purpose of project management is to plan and manage a project to successfully complete its listed goals and deliverables. It involves identifying and managing risks, careful resource management, smart budgeting, and clear communication across multiple teams and stakeholders.  In today's business environment most companies organise their workload into projects. This module takes a step by step process approach to provide students the skills and tools to successfully complete and manage projects.

Overall Aim of the Module 

This module aims to provide students with a tool box for successfully managing and delivering business projects.  It will develop a critical understanding of the various methodologies that businesses adopt in managing projects.

Learning Outcomes

Successful participants will be able to:

1. Develop a critical understanding of the principles and practices of project management and successful delivery.
2. To enhance and further develop knowledge in project planning skills that will facilitate completion successful projects.
3. To ensure that students have the necessary critical thinking skills relevant for project management methodologies and their application in a business setting.

Critically evaluate each step of the project management journey, explaining the activities required to guide a project throughout its lifecycle 

Assessment and Feedback 

Summary Assessment Information 

BMG944 Assessment Guidance

1. Word count includes the title page, contents page, in-text references and citations but excludes tables, reference list and appendices.
2. Your work should include references to relevant journal articles and other good quality information sources and should be properly laid out using the Harvard system of referencing. More detailed guidance is available in the Subject Guides. We encourage you to make good use of all the support services offered by your Campus Librarian, further details are in the Learning Support Services Section.  You should refer to the assessment criteria to provide fuller details of the marking criteria for each classification band.
3. In addition, you should refer to the standard assessment guidelines as presented in your Course Handbook/Support Area, this includes guidance and policies on referencing style, plagiarism, etc.
4. We recommend the use of Studiosity which offers constructive feedback on draft written submissions within 24 hrs. 
5. Coursework must be submitted by the dates specified. Coursework submitted after the deadline, without prior approval, is not normally accepted.For further guidance on the late submission of coursework, please see the course handbook.
6. Assessments must be submitted as per the assessment brief. 
   Please note: Words in excess of +10% of the word count will not be marked.
7. The university has harmonised assessment submission days and times. All assessments will from 2024/25 be submitted: 
   a.Monday-Friday 
   b.During weeks 1-12, 13-25, 26-39 and not during vacation periods. 
   c.Submission dates will not be set for bank holidays or days on which the university is closed.
8. Generative AI is permitted for use within assessments in this module, you must include any outputs, to include prompts, within an appendices for each submission and this must be referenced in the text.  It must be clear how you have developed this content into your own critical thoughts and words and NOT just pasted this content into your assessment submission.

BMG944 Coursework 1 Assessment Task

Individual - Project Management Report using Project Management tools and frameworks (2500 words – Deadline 6th December 11:59 PM)

Coursework 1 – Brief

1. In the first assessment students are provided a specific case company project scenario to be found within the assessments folder in the BBL area. This will provide students with all the details of the project scenario and supporting materials for the case company. Students will choose the appropriate tools and frameworks to apply this scenario. Students should use tools such as Mural to complete frameworks that are the basis for the different phases within a project.   You will have used all of these tools and frameworks in class. 
2. Detailed assessment guidance will be provided during the day 1 of class (also in the BBL assessments folder) and this will provide advice on the use of media/technologies for this assessment. 
3. An assessment support workshop for this assessment will be provided from 9-1 pm on day  4 of class. This will provide students the opportunity to have their work reviewed and some feedback on enhancements before the submission deadline.
4. Completed assignments must be submitted in Word format via the Turnitin Dropbox in your Blackboard Course Area by the specified date and time outlined in the Key Assessment Information Table above. 
5. All submitted assignments should have the file name:
   i)"SurnameFirstNameBNumber" 
   ii)e.g. BrownJohnB00001234_AssignmentOne.

Coursework 1 – FEEDBACK

Written feedback on the assessment will be provided via Blackboard by 20th December 2024

BMG944 Coursework 1 – ASSESSMENT RUBRIC/MARKING PROFORMA

BMG944 Coursework 2 Assessment Task

Team project plan (4000 words (team) + 1000 words individual team assessment) – Deadline 20th January 12 noon)

Coursework 2 – BRIEF

Students should work in teams to develop a project plan for a real life business problem. The final report to be submitted should be 4000 words max +1000 words individual (10% over is permitted). The business context and all necessary documentation is provided in the assessments folder in BBL. Students are required to complete the necessary documentation that would be required to complete a project using one of the taught methodologies. The Project plan should include: 

• Project aims and objectives
• Project planning methodology
• Project management tools
• Project time scales
• Risk mitigation plan
• Project budget
• Project team

f) Detailed assessment guidance will be given during the day 1 of class (also in the BBL assessments folder) and this will provide advice on the use of media/technologies for this assessment. 
g) An assessment support workshop for this assessment will be provided from 2-5 pm on day  4 of class. This will provide students the opportunity to have their work reviewed and some feedback on enhancements before the submission deadline. 
h) Completed assignments must be submitted in Word format via the Turnitin Dropbox in your Blackboard Course Area by the specified date and time outlined in the Key Assessment Information Table above. 

1. All submitted assignments should have the file name:
2. "SurnameFirstNameBNumber" 
3. e.g. BrownJohnB00001234_AssignmentOne.

Coursework 2 – FEEDBACK

Written feedback on the assessment will be provided via Blackboard on 20th February 2025

BMG944 Coursework 2 – ASSESSMENT RUBRIC/MARKING PROFORMA