Project Risk Management
Module code: ECS609U
Credits: 15.0
Semester: SEM1
Contact: Dr Aisha Abou El-Maaty
- 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.
Connected course(s): UDF DATA
Assessment: 50.0% Coursework, 50.0% Examination
Level: 6