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Level 6 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Project Planning Tools and Methodologies

LSC604 · Project Management — Week 2 of 16

CourseLSC604
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Project Planning Tools and Methodologies

  1. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  2. Gantt charts
  3. RACI responsibility assignment
  4. Agile and Waterfall frameworks
  5. Project Planning: Plan Your Project - PM Fundamentals
  6. Agile 101: How to do a Basic Agile Project
  7. TU Delft – Project execution plan PEP

What you will be able to do

  • 1.2 Analyse the tools and techniques of project management in business management.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the tools and techniques of project management in business management.

Study materials

Videos

  • Project Planning: Plan Your Project - PM Fundamentals · YouTube · Online PM Courses - Mike Clayton · 12 min · for registered students
  • Agile 101: How to do a Basic Agile Project · YouTube · Online PM Courses - Mike Clayton · 9 min · for registered students
  • TU Delft – Project execution plan PEP · YouTube · TU Delft · 4 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • MIT 1.040 Project Management (Spring 2009) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
  • MIT ESD.36 System Project Management (Fall 2012) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
  • Foundations of Information Systems, 9.1: IS Project Management · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 330–343 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Strategic Role of Project Management
  • Week 2: Project Planning Tools and Methodologies
  • Week 3: Technical Feasibility and Location Selection
  • Week 4: Network Analysis Techniques
  • Week 5: Critical Path Method and Schedule Optimization
  • Week 6: Capital Structure and Conventional Project Financing
  • Week 7: Contemporary and Alternative Project Finance
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Project Execution, Monitoring, and Control
  • Week 10: Risk Monitoring and Quality Governance
  • Week 11: Project Closure and Post-Implementation Evaluation
  • Week 12: Applying Project Management in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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