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Major Engineering Project Performance

Offered By: University of Leeds via Coursera

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Engineering Courses Risk Mitigation Courses

Course Description

Overview

Manage large projects by identifying their key characteristics, examining the key factors and risks that affect their performance and exploring methods to counter their impact on the successful delivery of projects. Looking into examples of best practice, you'll explore the relationship between projects, programmes and portfolios. You'll also discover the roles performed by the project manager, examine the difficulties associated with quantifying transaction costs in major project management and consider how different management approaches impact on these costs. Optimism bias and strategic misinterpretation regularly cause delays to major engineering projects. Using stimulating case studies, you'll evaluate the measures of success and compare and contrast 'project success' versus 'project management success'. In the final week of the course, you'll research and present a contemporary example of a major engineering project from your own country. This course explores concepts analysed in the University’s Online MSc in Engineering Management. If you are interested to develop your skills further, take a look at our online degree.

Syllabus

  • Major engineering project performance
  • Programmes, portfolios and transaction costs
  • Time and cost in major projects
  • Project management success vs project success
  • Project

Taught by

Dr Giorgio Locatelli

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