Graduate Certificate of Project Management

Unit Code: OPO5900

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This unit focuses on the internal and external organisational context in which projects are conceived, evaluated, supported, and delivered. In evaluation of a business case for project initiation, you will critically analyse and apply strategy-related insights in the broad and immediate competitive environment. The unit emphasises engagement with project stakeholders, and the impact organisational structure, culture, politics has on these activities.

Unit Code: OPO5901

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This unit focuses on the dynamic context of project delivery. The unit will emphasise the role that project leaders play in managing capabilities, resources, and changing expectations with an emphasis on team composition and team dynamics. You will develop the ability to critically analyse and apply insights regarding the professional standards and project performance criteria of project delivery. 

Unit Code: OPO5902

Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This unit focuses on the planning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the planning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.

Unit Code: OPO5903

Contact Hours: 24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This unit focuses on the learning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the learning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.

Unit Code: OPO5000

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

The unit explores the rise of an emerging organisational form—the project-based organisation. It addresses the environmental forces that give rise to project-based organisations and the requisite governance systems required to coordinate across projects, programs and portfolios, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and the creation of value for the organisation. Leadership theories and the competencies of project leadership, which are required to support effective governance when managing projects, are also reviewed. 

Unit Code: OPO5001

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This unit explores projects as primarily social constructs, where sense-making and adaptive behaviours are required to accommodate local contexts, dynamics, and personal attributes. The perception of projects as a process is critically examined and challenged with concepts from systems thinking. Cultural and political practices are explored to develop an understanding of the interrelationships between various elements of a project, and the environment in which they are executed.

Unit Code: OPO5002

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Project managers require a range of techniques to deal with projects that may be volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This unit will explore the need for project managers to develop bespoke approaches which address the unique requirements of innovation-driven projects. With a focus on design thinking, you will evaluate the requirements of a specific (disruptive) innovation and propose a unique project design to achieve the organisation’s goals.

Unit Code: OPO5003

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

The unit explores the role of knowledge networks in project delivery. It focuses on developing an understanding of how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge, and how this knowledge impacts their projects. The unit incorporates concepts and theories from various disciplines aligned to project management and knowledge management but takes the next step of what is arguably the end goal of our knowledge management system, the application and use of the knowledge we have.

Unit Code: BEO5113

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment. This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.

Industry Project A will be externally focused and Industry Project B students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.

Unit Code: BEO5114

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment. This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.

IPA will be external focused and IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.

Unit Code: MGO5992

Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week

Duration: 6 weeks

Description:

Self-reflection is central to being a successful leader and this unit builds upon your capacity to achieve your career goals and will develop your ability to market yourself effectively. Replace with Critical and self-reflective thinking is central to success and this unit is designed to provide a strong foundation for professional development.