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PMGT5898: Complex Project Leadership

2022 unit information

This unit offers students an innovative way of looking at projects and programs and treating them as complex adaptive systems. Applying the principles of complexity and systems thinking assists project and program managers and leadership teams in formulating approaches to leadership of challenging and large-scale initiatives. The expected outcomes of this unit include development of: ability to diagnose complexity on a wide range of projects types; understanding of how systems thinking and complexity theories can be used to find new, creative ways to think about and lead complex projects and programs; ability to select and apply a range of systems thinking and management modelling tools and techniques to understanding, management and leadership of complex business problems; ability to reflect upon your own practice and develop self awareness as a key to leadership in the face of complexity.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Engineering

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Project Management
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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WORK6130
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. understand the basic principles of complex adaptive systems and selected complexity theories and apply this understanding to management and leadership of projects
  • LO2. use categorisation techniques to diagnose levels of management complexity on projects as a guide to assessing risk and determining management approaches
  • LO3. select and use systems thinking approaches and modelling tools to assist in formulating responses to complex projects and organisational phenomena
  • LO4. recognise the difference between use of models as devices for design and implementation vs sense-making and learning
  • LO5. draw upon understanding of multiple perspectives when dealing with management complexity
  • LO6. critically reflect on practice and increase self-awareness in order to improve team and leadership effectiveness.

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2020
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2020
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2021
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2021
Block mode Remote
Semester 1 2022
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2022
Block mode Remote

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