M Sc Project Management

M Sc PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PART 1 (Max marks 25% of the total marks)

There is an increasing demand in the international market for high quality project managers to run multinational and multi-sites projects. As a Project Manager you have been given the task by an international company to identify qualities and attributes of project managers with emphasis on project planning and project organisation domain.

You need to include the following, backed-up with journals, books and references: (Maximum 1000 words)

1. Communications, with emphasis on a project manager working remotely with project team members.
2. Managing multi-cultural project stakeholders.
3. Develop scenarios where a project manager has to cope with pressures from stakeholders with respect to cost and time overruns and outline how advanced planning and scheduling technique can help overcome these issues.

Part 2 (Max marks 25% of the total marks)

Multi-constraints planning

Discuss and analyse the practicality of multi-constraints planning application in the industrial sector that you have experience in. Provide outline analysis of value and constraints of applying the approach. Use the following papers as a reference for your discussion (1000words). You need build bibliography at least 20 references from range of references.

Zhen-Zhong Hu, Jian-Ping Zhang, Frang-Qiang Yu,Pei-Long Tian and Xue-Song Xiang (October 2016) Construction and facility management of large MEP projects using a multi-Scale building information model, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 100, 215-230.

Nashwan Dawood and Eknarin Sriprasert (January 2006), Construction scheduling using multi-constraint and genetic algorithms approach, Construction Management and Economics, 19–30.

Learning outcomes Assessed

Practical & Professional Skills

Act autonomously in planning, implementing and write evaluate outcomes on the engineering project planning and visualisation.

Key Transferable Skills

 Communicate complex academic and professional issues clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences

Collaborate and show effectiveness in use of IT skills that are commensurate with the demands of engineering projects.
 

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