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Strategic Project Management
This module is designed to provide knowledge and a higher level of understanding of the strategic planning process in organisations and how this relates to strategy implementation through projects. The importance of strategic planning in the design and selection of projects undertaken by organisations. Project appraisal and finance. Business case, risk management, quality management.


Project, Programme and Portfolio Management
The module is designed to give students an insight into the fundamentals of project, programme and portfolio management and how these concepts combine in the implementation of organisation strategies. This covers project strategy and risk, prioritisation and selection,, portfolio optimisation, programme management, PMO, information architectures to support strategy implementation, governance, project success and benefits management.


People, Culture and Organisation
To gain knowledge and understanding on a wide range of people and culture topics relevant to a project manager. To gain awareness and understanding of a range of perspectives and underpinning techniques for analysing problems. To experience the application of theoretical ideas to work situations through personal reflection. To gain understanding of the theory and practice of creative approaches to problem solving. To create a future learning agenda for personal development. To gain experience and understanding of qualitative concepts and measures with respect to people, culture, and organisations.


Planning, Execution and Control
This module is designed to provide knowledge and a higher level of understanding of planning, execution and control processes in the management of projects. This covers concepts, models, and methodologies of planning and control of project cost, time and resources.


Commercial and Procurement
This module is designed to provide both knowledge and a higher level of understanding in the application of the legal and commercial issues in the management of projects. There are increasing pressures on industry to deliver increasingly complex products and services to more sophisticated customers and end-users who ask for better value. The problem is not, in many occasions, a technical one only. The challenge is how to manage multi-disciplinary teams, functions, and parties to design, develop, and implement increasingly complex projects in continuously changing environments while still meeting customers’ requirements in terms of time, cost, quality, and fitness for purpose.


Research Methods
The purpose of this module is to provide a comprehensive understanding of research methods and approaches. A particular emphasis is placed on projects/organisations and their applicability to different environments and situations. The module will consider key issues relating to research methods in general, including ethics, and how to design a research proposal and carry out research. The module will then consider qualitative research techniques and qualitative.

Dissertation
The aim of the dissertation is to give students an opportunity to focus in depth on one aspect of PM, which will normally be directly relevant to a real life workplace situation, and to allow them to demonstrate their independent research skills to the course assessors.