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Project Development, Planning and Management

SMP803

Course CodeSMP803
ECTS

Course Description

This module will introduce some fundamentals of research projects especially from a DBA perspective. It highlights various challenges and bottlenecks faced by researcher in a typical DBA programme and aims to educate participants about the best practices related to management of DBA research.

Course Objectives

This module will introduce some fundamentals of research projects especially from a DBA perspective. It highlights various challenges and bottlenecks faced by researcher in a typical DBA programme and aims to educate participants about the best practices related to management of DBA research.

Key Topics

  1. LO1: Understand the fundamentals of project, methodologies and processes related to a project.
  2. LO2: Be able to compare and contrast the similarities between research project, organisational project and DBA project.
  3. LO3: Be able to demonstrate the capacity to research and write up a highly effective research proposal.
  4. LO4: Be able to evaluate the challenges related to managing research projects.

Course Outline

WeekTopics
1Strategic Role of Projects in Modern Organisations
2Project Management Methodologies and Governance
3Typologies of Research Projects versus Organisational Initiatives
4The DBA Project Life Cycle and Research Funding Ecosystem
5Doctoral Research Risk Identification and Mitigation
6Research Work Breakdown Structure and Activity Scheduling
7Resource Planning and Financial Budgeting for Research Projects
MidtermMidterm evaluation
9Critical Path Method and Research Schedule Optimisation
10Project Life Cycle Analysis and Doctoral Research Bottlenecks
11Project Best Practices and Strategic Frameworks for DBA Delivery
12Applying Project Development, Planning and Management in practice: case studies
13Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
14Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
15Review and coursework completion
FinalFinal assessment and submission

Learning Outcomes

  1. LO1 Understand the fundamentals of project, methodologies and processes related to a project.
  2. 1.1 Explain the growing importance of projects in organisational context.
  3. 1.2 Appraise the complexities involved in managing projects.
  4. 1.3 Explain the processes and methodologies related to projects.
  5. LO2 Be able to compare and contrast the similarities between research project, organisational project and DBA project.
  6. 2.1 Understand the various types of research projects.
  7. 2.2 Explain the differences between organisational projects and research projects.
  8. 2.3 Understand research funding landscape.
  9. 2.4 Explain the stages of a DBA project.
  10. 2.5 Discuss how to manage risk in a DBA project.
  11. LO3 Be able to demonstrate the capacity to research and write up a highly effective research proposal.
  12. 3.1 Divide the research project into work packages, activities, milestones, estimate duration and establish relationship between activities.
  13. 3.2 Estimate resource, cost requirements for a given activity.
  14. 3.3 Identify critical path and optimize resource usage.
  15. LO4 Be able to evaluate the challenges related to managing research projects.
  16. 4.1 Apply project life cycle approach to examine the project management challenges.
  17. 4.2 Identify best practices related to project management.
  18. 4.3 Provide recommendations for successful delivery of projects.
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