About this course: Dealing with a complex network of stakeholders is a key feature of major projects. Gain confidence when dealing with stakeholders of major projects by learning to identify and manage those that are involved in the project planning and delivery and explore project governance in theory and practice. Through real life examples you’ll understand how the critical challenges of the governance in major projects are resolved. Being able to successfully manage risk and uncertainty in major projects is vital for their delivery. In this course you’ll learn to distinguish between risk and uncertainty and the role of risk register. You’ll identify the unique challenges of scope management in major projects and employ scope management tools and techniques that will facilitate your project planning. This is the second course in the Managing Major Engineering Projects Specialization. The Specialization is the first step towards earning degree credit from the University of Leeds. Learners who successfully complete the specialization will be able to apply to the enhanced, for-credit Capstone project which will run as a private course on Coursera. Credit earned by successfully completing the Capstone project can be used directly towards our online MSc in Engineering Management and as evidence of accredited postgraduate study.
Who is this class for: This course is for professionals currently working in engineering project management. You might be an engineer or a project manager working on engineering projects or an engineering graduate aspiring to work in major projects in the near future. If you want to know more about the governance of major projects, strategies to manage their risks and scope management tools then this course is for you.
Created by: 利兹大学
Taught by: Dr Giorgio Locatelli, Lecturer of Infrastructure Procurement and Management
School of Civil Engineering
| Basic Info | Course 2 of 3 in the Managing Major Engineering Projects Specialization |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Commitment | We suggest that each week of this course will take approximately 5 hours to complete. |
| Language | English |
| Hardware Req | Participation in peer review activities require presentation software such as PowerPoint. |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope
1 video, 25 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Reading: Welcome to Major engineering projects: governance, risk and scope
- Video: Introduction from Giorgio
- Reading: Introduction
- Reading: Where are your peers located?
- Ungraded Plugin: Interactive course map
- Discussion Prompt: Introduce yourselves
- Reading: Research and further reading
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Identifying stakeholders: public and industrial stakeholders
- Reading: Identifying stakeholders: financial and other stakeholders
- Reading: Quiz introduction
- Practice Quiz: Major engineering project stakeholders
- Reading: What roles do stakeholders perform?
- Reading: Internal and external stakeholders
- Reading: What is stakeholder management?
- Reading: Stakeholder mapping: case study
- Reading: Quiz introduction
- Practice Quiz: Rovigo case study
- Discussion Prompt: Stakeholder management
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Stakeholder management theory
- Reading: What is a RACI model?
- LTI Item: RACI matrix: a worked example
- Reading: Case study: the impact of stakeholder management in HS2
- Discussion Prompt: HS2 Ltd.
- Reading: How did the National Audit Office review HS2's management case?
- Reading: Quiz introduction
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Apply your understanding: producing a stakeholder categorisation
- Discussion Prompt: Critiquing your stakeholder categorisation
- Reading: References
Graded: Test your understanding
WEEK 2
Governance and project governance
3 videos, 15 readings
- Reading: Welcome to the week
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Video: Governance
- Reading: Governance vs management
- Reading: Müller’s four paradigms
- Reading: Governance objectives and institutions
- Discussion Prompt: Governance paradigms
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Governance of projects
- Video: Governance of major projects: part 1
- Video: Governance of major projects: part 2
- Reading: What are the challenges to major project governance?
- Discussion Prompt: Governance challenges
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Critical analysis
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Writing your reflections
- Discussion Prompt: Sharing your reflections
- Reading: References
Graded: Developing critical analysis skills
WEEK 3
Strategic risk management process
1 video, 21 readings
- Reading: Welcome to the week
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: What is strategic risk?
- Video: Features of risk management
- Reading: What is uncertainty?
- Reading: Organisational involvement
- Reading: What are risk registers?
- Discussion Prompt: Risk and uncertainty
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Live risk registers
- Reading: Opportunities
- Reading: Socio-technical hexgaon introduction
- LTI Item: Socio-technical hexagon
- Reading: What is risk appetite?
- Reading: What is utility theory?
- Discussion Prompt: Risk appetite
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Apply your understanding: creating a risk register
- Discussion Prompt: Critiquing your risk register
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Preparing your risk register
- Reading: Your risk register task
- Reading: What is peer review?
- Discussion Prompt: Reflecting on the risk register process
- Reading: References
Graded: Reviewing your peer’s risk register
WEEK 4
Scope management and associated challenges
1 video, 21 readings
- Reading: Welcome to the week
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: Scope management: internal and external projects
- Video: Overview of scope management
- Reading: What is scope creep?
- Reading: What is gold plating?
- Reading: The cost of scope change
- Reading: Case study: nuclear sector
- Reading: Work Breakdown Structure
- Reading: How to design a Work Breakdown Structure
- Reading: Work Breakdown Structure: a practical example
- Reading: Other breakdown structures
- Reading: What is Buildings Information Modelling?
- Discussion Prompt: Scope problems
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: What is complexity?
- Reading: How does complexity affect scope management?
- Reading: What are major project sublimes?
- Reading: Quiz introduction
- Discussion Prompt: Scope management
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Writing your reflections
- Discussion Prompt: Sharing your reflections
- Reading: References
Graded: Test your understanding
WEEK 5
Project
10 readings
- Reading: Welcome to the week
- Reading: Lesson overview
- Reading: The assignment
- Reading: Approaching your research
- Reading: Academic referencing
- Reading: Lesson summary
- Reading: Creating your presentation
- Discussion Prompt: Your experiences of presenting
- Reading: Preparing your presentation
- Reading: Submitting your presentation
- Discussion Prompt: Writing and assessing a presentation
- Reading: Next steps
Graded: Review your peer’s presentation
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