PMQ504 Managing Project Teams
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| Unit code: | PMQ504 |
|---|---|
| Equivalent(s): | PMN504 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,444 |
| International unit fee | $5,220 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2025, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PMQ504 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | PMN504 |
Overview
This unit will provide you with the fundamental skills and knowledge to manage internal stakeholders, and to appreciate the role and contribution of the Project Manager in facilitating outcomes critical for the success of a project. It will specifically focus on the competencies required to effectively lead, motivate and manage individuals within the project team. The unit provides an understanding of how to undertake negotiation and conflict resolution, and recognise individual and cultural differences and different communication styles appearing in project teams.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically reflect on personal leadership attributes and emotional intelligence to identify and plan for personal and professional development.
- Apply the principles of effective team management skills, leadership, motivation and conflict resolution in a project management setting.
- Explain how to manage in a project team environment so that team members achieve personal development and growth, whilst successfully contributing to the project's success.
- Create team development plans to encourage greater team diversity and inclusivity.
Content
The topics in this unit include and focus on:
- Project stakeholder identification and management;
- Project Team Building, Creativity and Problem-solving;
- Project Manager's Role and Competencies;
- Self-awareness, Emotional Intelligence, Motivation and Productivity;
- Leadership in Projects (vs. Management);
- Individual and Cultural differences;
- Communications Theory and Skills in Teams;
- Conflict Resolution and Negotiation in Teams;
- Stress Management and 'Burnout'.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be delivered fully online. In this unit, you will learn by engaging in active and reflective learning through:
- participating in class/online discussions
- engaging with online learning materials
- reading book chapters, scholarly and industry articles
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester including:
- Rubrics provided to show the expected standard for each criteria in an assessment item.
- Feedback comments on assignments returned to you via Canvas.
- Collaborate and Discussion sessions providing extensive question and answer opportunities with peers and teaching staff.
- Peer feedback from team members to inform team planning.
- Self assessments of emotional intelligence and leadership skills
Assessment
Overview
- Reflection - following the completion of two self-assessments emotional intelligence and leadership., you will write a self-reflection report setting down your understanding of these important skills and your understanding of how they can help you contribute to project management in the future.
- High-performance Team Development Report - working as a project manager heading a team with performance issues, you will as a group, devise, develop and present to the Project Director, a high-performance team plan designed to alleviate the problems being faced by the team and then individually reflect on your learnings from undertaking this task.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal and Self-Assessment
You will write two reflections following your self-assessments on emotional intelligence and leadership.
Part A
Complete a self-assessment on emotional intelligence. Following the self-assessment reflect on the value of emotional intelligence to working in project teams. Your response will need to include relevant scholarly literature and include actions for the future.
Part B
Complete a self-assessment on leadership styles. Following the self-assessment reflect on the value of leadership styles to working in project teams. Your response will need to include relevant scholarly literature and include actions for the future.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: High Performance Team Development Report
You will take on the role of a project manager working in a project team that is experiencing some team performance issues. In response to concerns from your project director, together as a team you will develop and present a high-performance team plan including early definition of Roles and Responsibilities, Staffing Management, Communication Management, stakeholder identification and management, Ethics, Safety and Compliance. The project director has asked that the plan specifically be set up to encourage greater team diversity and be more inclusive.
Individually, you will then write a reflection on the teamwork and communication process throughout this assignment.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no prescribed resources required for this unit. There are however recommended texts stipulated below. Further, additional resources will be made available through the unit's Canvas site and QUT Readings as relevant to each unit module.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
PMI, 2021, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Seventh Edition, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PQ15 Graduate Certificate in Project Management
- Formulate approaches to effectively manage individuals in a project team environment for successful project outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Reflective Journal and Self-Assessment, High Performance Team Development Report - Apply appropriate tools, methods and techniques to plan and execute projects
Relates to: ULO4, High Performance Team Development Report
PQ20 Master of Project Management
- Synthesise and apply leadership and team development theory across dynamic and complex project environments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Reflective Journal and Self-Assessment, High Performance Team Development Report - Create project plans to effectively deliver strategic business and organisational objectives
Relates to: ULO4, High Performance Team Development Report
Unit Outline: Session 4 2025, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PMQ504 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | PMN504 |
Overview
This unit will provide you with the fundamental skills and knowledge to manage internal stakeholders, and to appreciate the role and contribution of the Project Manager in facilitating outcomes critical for the success of a project. It will specifically focus on the competencies required to effectively lead, motivate and manage individuals within the project team. The unit provides an understanding of how to undertake negotiation and conflict resolution, and recognise individual and cultural differences and different communication styles appearing in project teams.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically reflect on personal leadership attributes and emotional intelligence to identify and plan for personal and professional development.
- Apply the principles of effective team management skills, leadership, motivation and conflict resolution in a project management setting.
- Explain how to manage in a project team environment so that team members achieve personal development and growth, whilst successfully contributing to the project's success.
- Create team development plans to encourage greater team diversity and inclusivity.
Content
The topics in this unit include and focus on:
- Project stakeholder identification and management;
- Project Team Building, Creativity and Problem-solving;
- Project Manager's Role and Competencies;
- Self-awareness, Emotional Intelligence, Motivation and Productivity;
- Leadership in Projects (vs. Management);
- Individual and Cultural differences;
- Communications Theory and Skills in Teams;
- Conflict Resolution and Negotiation in Teams;
- Stress Management and 'Burnout'.
Learning Approaches
This unit will be delivered fully online. In this unit, you will learn by engaging in active and reflective learning through:
- participating in class/online discussions
- engaging with online learning materials
- reading book chapters, scholarly and industry articles
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester including:
- Rubrics provided to show the expected standard for each criteria in an assessment item.
- Feedback comments on assignments returned to you via Canvas.
- Collaborate and Discussion sessions providing extensive question and answer opportunities with peers and teaching staff.
- Peer feedback from team members to inform team planning.
- Self assessments of emotional intelligence and leadership skills
Assessment
Overview
- Reflection - following the completion of two self-assessments emotional intelligence and leadership., you will write a self-reflection report setting down your understanding of these important skills and your understanding of how they can help you contribute to project management in the future.
- High-performance Team Development Report - working as a project manager heading a team with performance issues, you will as a group, devise, develop and present to the Project Director, a high-performance team plan designed to alleviate the problems being faced by the team and then individually reflect on your learnings from undertaking this task.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Reflective Journal and Self-Assessment
You will write two reflections following your self-assessments on emotional intelligence and leadership.
Part A
Complete a self-assessment on emotional intelligence. Following the self-assessment reflect on the value of emotional intelligence to working in project teams. Your response will need to include relevant scholarly literature and include actions for the future.
Part B
Complete a self-assessment on leadership styles. Following the self-assessment reflect on the value of leadership styles to working in project teams. Your response will need to include relevant scholarly literature and include actions for the future.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: High Performance Team Development Report
You will take on the role of a project manager working in a project team that is experiencing some team performance issues. In response to concerns from your project director, together as a team you will develop and present a high-performance team plan including early definition of Roles and Responsibilities, Staffing Management, Communication Management, stakeholder identification and management, Ethics, Safety and Compliance. The project director has asked that the plan specifically be set up to encourage greater team diversity and be more inclusive.
Individually, you will then write a reflection on the teamwork and communication process throughout this assignment.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no prescribed resources required for this unit. There are however recommended texts stipulated below. Further, additional resources will be made available through the unit's Canvas site and QUT Readings as relevant to each unit module.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
PMI, 2021, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Seventh Edition, Project Management Institute, Newtown Square, PA.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no extraordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PQ15 Graduate Certificate in Project Management
- Formulate approaches to effectively manage individuals in a project team environment for successful project outcomes.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Reflective Journal and Self-Assessment, High Performance Team Development Report - Apply appropriate tools, methods and techniques to plan and execute projects
Relates to: ULO4, High Performance Team Development Report
PQ20 Master of Project Management
- Synthesise and apply leadership and team development theory across dynamic and complex project environments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Reflective Journal and Self-Assessment, High Performance Team Development Report - Create project plans to effectively deliver strategic business and organisational objectives
Relates to: ULO4, High Performance Team Development Report