Browse Hierarchy ECS609W: Project Risk Management

This module is only open to degree apprentices in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. It will introduce students to: Formal introduction to Project Management; Project Structure, Leadership and Team Roles, Communications; Project Scope, Feasibility and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS); Stakeholders and Quality Management; Project Risk, Decision Making, Estimating and the Business Case; A brief review of risk management and the risk management process; explain the legal basis of risk management; critically evaluate how pure risks may be identified, assessed and evaluated; discuss the role of human behaviour in managing risks; Review of the basic key techniques and tools to plan and control projects (e.g. work breakdown, Gantt charts, critical path analysis and managing risk); Introduction to other resources which can assist with project planning (e.g. Microsoft Project and PRINCE); Examples of different kinds of processes in different contexts.