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The aim of the module is to enable students to experience first-hand the opportunities and challenges in project management and the importance of projects in moving a company towards its strategic objectives.

This module offers the opportunity to explore the strategic role of project management within an organisation, through engagement with a ‘live’ company project. It addresses the purpose of project management and its impact on organisational strategic objectives particularly in the areas of marketing, operations management  and finance. The module  also explores the roles of sponsors and stakeholders and how to gain support and commitment to projects within an organisation. The stages in project planning including risk assessment, development of a project brief and scoping of a project are considered and applied within the module.

The skills and knowledge assessed in this module will be utilised in the module Leading and Managing the Business Project (MMB061)