NBS8234 : Project Management
- Offered for Year: 2026/27
- Module Leader(s): Dr Haiyan Lu
- Owning School: Newcastle University Business School
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
| Semester 1 Credit Value: | 10 |
| ECTS Credits: | 5.0 |
| European Credit Transfer System | |
Aims
This module aims to equip students with the advanced knowledge and critical skills necessary to initiate, plan, execute, and close projects effectively within complex, uncertain, and digitally influenced organisational environments. Moving beyond foundational concepts, the module fosters a strategic understanding of project governance and life cycle management, enabling students to select and adapt appropriate methodologies to deliver value. It critically examines the core constraints of project delivery while emphasizing the assurance, learning, and quality processes essential for organisational maturity. Ultimately, the module prepares students to become reflective practitioners capable of navigating technological and entrepreneurial changes by applying and critiquing contemporary project management frameworks and tools.
Outline Of Syllabus
- Introduction to Project Management and governance principles.
- Managing life cycle options for a project: life cycle philosophy, linear life cycles, interactive life cycles, hybrid cycles.
- Shaping the early life cycle: project shaping, programme shaping.
- Managing Project Delivery: The Iron Triangle.
- Assurance, learning and maturity: Controlling and Monitoring Project Delivery, knowledge management.
- Defining outputs of a project: Quality planning and quality control.
- Administrative closure of projects.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 8 | 2:00 | 16:00 | PIP Lecture |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 30:00 | 30:00 | To complete formative and summative coursework & assessments. |
| Guided Independent Study | Directed research and reading | 1 | 33:00 | 33:00 | Approx 3hrs per week (not always completed in the same week). |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 2 | 1:00 | 2:00 | PIP Seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 19:00 | 19:00 | N/A |
| Total | 100:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
Lectures supplement student reading to provide both theoretical and practical knowledge. In class discussions and activities enable students to develop their understanding through mutual learning.
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Other Assessment
| Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | 1 | M | 80 | Individual assignment/report, 2000 words |
| Oral Presentation | 1 | M | 20 | Group presentation for case study |
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.
| Description | Semester | When Set | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Presentation | 1 | M | case study (peer marked). |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
Lectures, readings and class discussions/simulations/activities are designed to help students develop the understanding and analytical skills needed to complete the assessment. The assessment then tests the students individually to assess how well they have developed both their factual understanding of the topic and their skills in applying their knowledge.
RESIT INFORMATION: If students are eligible to a second attempt resit will be an assignment and the resit calculation will be based 100% on the submission.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- NBS8234's Timetable