School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Project Scheduling and Control
  • Unit Code

    MAN5402
  • Unit Type

    Learning Unit
  • Year

    2026
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    8
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Neda KIANI MAVI

Description

The unit focuses on the technical expertise needed to create systematic value from the schedule and budget. In predictive and hybrid projects, this needs to be undertaken within constraints, and with reference to professional standards and guides. In this unit, students will examine the importance of balancing the triple constraints of scope, time, and cost when planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling predictive projects. The unit adopts a practical approach to developing scheduling techniques and students learn how this requires discipline yet flexibility when planning. Suitable industry standard scheduling tools are used. Students also critique the issues that arise from scheduling predictive projects and analyse alternative approaches that can be tailored to support the effective delivery of contemporary hybrid projects.

Equivalent Rule

The online accelerated version of this unit is PRJ6402 Project Scheduling and Control.

Capabilities

In this unit, students will be developing the following capabilities:

  1. Critical Thinking
  2. Digital Literacy
  3. Communication

Unit Content

  1. Recognising Project Purpose in scheduling and budgeting.
  2. Scheduling for projects along the predictive and adaptive continuum.
  3. The strategic and operational drivers behind scheduling.
  4. Fundamentals of predictive project scheduling.
  5. Project baselines.
  6. Project monitoring and control.
  7. Critiques of project scheduling approaches.

Learning Experience

ONLINE

All learning experiences are delivered online and attendance at scheduled virtual classes is expected.

ON-CAMPUS

On-campus attendance at scheduled classes is expected.

This is a Learning Unit. Learning Units engage students in regular learning activities to develop their knowledge, skills, and capabilities. The learning activities provide each student with feedback to support their development, and create evidence for each student’s progress towards achieving the learning outcomes of the course.

Unit Completion Requirements

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

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Academic Integrity in a Learning Unit includes:

  • Following the guidance for Artificial Intelligence in your unit, taking responsibility for the validity of any information you get from AI tools, and always acknowledging your use fully and accurately;
  • Completing your own work, without copying from others or asking other people to do your work for you;
  • Referencing your sources of information accurately;
  • Attending classes and engaging with the learning materials and feedback.

Your teaching staff will provide feedback if they have concerns that you are not acting with integrity in your learning. However, it is your responsibility to ensure that you are completing your work ethically.

Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply for an extension in accordance with ECU policy and procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in ECU policy and procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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