Major Engineering Project Performance
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Major Engineering Project Performance at Coursera Overview
Duration | 19 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
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Credential | Certificate |
Major Engineering Project Performance at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 1 of 3 in the Managing Major Engineering Projects Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Intermediate Level This course is ideal for graduates from engineering, science and other numerate subjects or for professionals with relevant work experience.
- Approx. 19 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
Major Engineering Project Performance at Coursera Course details
- 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.
Major Engineering Project Performance at Coursera Curriculum
Major engineering project performance
Introduction from Giorgio
Projects, sub-projects and operations
Project life cycle theories
Welcome to Major engineering project performance
Introduction
Research and further reading
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
What is a project?
Who is a project manager and what is project management?
Project management duties
Quiz introduction
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Types of project life cycles
The phases of the infrastructure life cycle
Quiz introduction
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Apply your understanding: creating a project life cycle
References
Project management duties
Test your understanding
Programmes, portfolios and transaction costs
Transaction costs
Welcome to the week
Lesson overview
What are programmes and portfolios?
Case study: the Milan Expo
What are the challenges of programme management?
What is a portfolio?
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Case study: The nuclear industry in the USA and South Korea
Analysis: the South Korean nuclear industry
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Critical analysis
Lesson overview
Writing your reflections
References
Critical analysis task
Time and cost in major projects
Cost and time performance of major projects
Other reasons to explain over-budget and delay
Welcome to the week
Lesson overview
What is a major project?
What types of risks are involved in major projects?
What is the iron triangle?
Error and inaccuracy in major projects: the example of infrastructure projects
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
What is optimism bias?
How can you reduce the impact of optimism bias?
What is strategic misinterpretation?
Strategic misinterpretation: mitigating its impact
Optimism bias and strategic misinterpretation in context
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Your research task
What is peer review?
References
Project management success vs project success
Welcome to the week
Lesson overview
What is a measure of success in major project management?
Case study: Motorola Iridium
Motorola Iridium: an analysis
Main contractor perspective
How should you measure project success?
Extended perspective
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Turner and Zolin framework
Quiz introduction
Case study: the Tower of Pisa
Case study: the Thames Barrier
Quiz introduction
Lesson summary
Writing your reflections
References
Turner and Zolin Framework
Test your understanding
Project
Welcome to the week
Lesson overview
The assignment
Approaching your research
Academic referencing
Lesson summary
Creating your presentation
Preparing your presentation
Submitting your presentation
Next steps
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