Project and Change Management (L5M8)

1.0  Understand aspects of projects in organisations

1.1  Analyse aspects of projects in organisations

• The relationship between programmes and projects
• Stakeholder identification, analysis and involvement
• Measures of safety, quality, cost and delivery
• Success and failure of projects
• Elements of projects
• Work breakdown structure

1.2  Evaluate the impact on supply chain relationships of undertaking projects

• Supply chain networks for projects
• Relationships with sub-contractors
• Consortiums and joint ventures for projects
• Traditional and contemporary relationships
• Project partnering and strategic partnering

1.3  Analyse the resources for projects

• Resource loading and levelling
• Multi project scheduling and resource allocation
• Information technology systems for project management
• Leading and managing projects
• Critical chain methodology
• Asset finance and the role of banks

1.4  Analyse the project life cycles of projects

• Perspectives on project life cycles
• Project initiation
• Organising projects and project implementation
• Co-ordination in project management
• Project control
• Project closure
• Project review

2.0  Understand the concept of organisational change and how it can be achieved

2.1  Analyse the types of organisational change

• Evolution
• Adaption
• Revolution
• Reconstruction
• Closed, contained and open-ended change

2.2  Analyse situations that lead to organisational change

• Organisational life cycle
• SWOT and PEST analysis and factors
• Internal drivers
• Future trends and innovation
• Multiple-cause diagrams and simultaneous change
• Changes in management and structure
• Cycle of competitive behaviour and reactive breakpoints

2.3  Evaluate organisational responses to change

• Environmental turbulence
• Resistance to change
• Cynicism and scepticism
• The challenge of maintaining change
• The change cycle – loss, doubt, discomfort, discovery, understanding, integration

2.4  Analyse methods to manage, achieve and maintain change

• Collaborate, communicate, direct and coerce
• Clarify goals
• Refine methods and procedures
• Empowerment and ownership
• Incremental adjustment
• Lean and value stream mapping
• Monitor and maintain changes
• The change spectrum – hard (difficult) vs. soft (messy) problems

3.0  Understand approaches to the planning and management of projects and change initiatives

3.1  Evaluate structures for corporate governance

• Project boards/executive
• Project responsibility charting
• The use of project initiation documents
• Structures of project management such as project, functional and matrix
• Project reporting

3.2  Analyse the common objectives for projects

• Identifying goals and objectives of projects
• The balance between cost, quality and time in projects
• Technology project development
• Building sustainability into major projects
• Impact on the community for major projects
• Communicating project objectives to the supply chain

3.3  Analyse approaches to the management of risks for projects

• Identifying assumptions and risks
• Risk simulation
• Risk registers
• Risk accountability
• The management of risk in supply chains

3.4  Critically compare methodologies for the planning of projects

• Sequencing activities
• Network techniques including project evaluation and review techniques (PERT) and critical path method (CPM)
• Gantt charts and baselines

Select a module below for more information:

Choose three ELECTIVE module to make up the final 18 required credits.