Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope
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Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope at Coursera Overview
Duration | 24 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope at Coursera Course details
- Gain confidence when dealing with stakeholders of major projects by learning to identify and manage those that are involved in the project planning and delivery. This course will enable you to explore project governance in theory and practice.
- Through real life examples you?ll understand how the critical challenges of the governance in major projects are resolved.
- Being able to successfully manage risk and uncertainty in major projects is vital for their delivery. In this course you?ll learn to distinguish between risk and uncertainty and the role of risk register. You?ll identify the unique challenges of scope management in major projects and employ scope management tools and techniques that will facilitate your project planning.
- 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 Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope at Coursera Curriculum
Major Engineering Projects: Governance, Risk and Scope
Introduction from Giorgio
Welcome to Major engineering projects: governance, risk and scope
Introduction
Research and further reading
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Identifying stakeholders: public and industrial stakeholders
Identifying stakeholders: financial and other stakeholders
Quiz introduction
What roles do stakeholders perform?
Internal and external stakeholders
What is stakeholder management?
Stakeholder mapping: case study
Quiz introduction
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Stakeholder management theory
What is a RACI model?
Case study: the impact of stakeholder management in HS2
How did the National Audit Office review HS2's management case?
Quiz introduction
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Apply your understanding: producing a stakeholder categorisation
References
Major engineering project stakeholders
Rovigo case study
Test your understanding
Governance and project governance
Governance
Governance of major projects: part 1
Governance of major projects: part 2
Welcome to the week
Lesson overview
Governance vs management
Müller?s four paradigms
Governance objectives and institutions
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Governance of projects
What are the challenges to major project governance?
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Critical analysis
Lesson overview
Writing your reflections
References
Developing critical analysis skills
Strategic risk management process
Features of risk management
Welcome to the week
Lesson overview
What is strategic risk?
What is uncertainty?
Organisational involvement
What are risk registers?
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Live risk registers
Opportunities
Socio-technical hexgaon introduction
What is risk appetite?
What is utility theory?
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
Apply your understanding: creating a risk register
Lesson overview
Preparing your risk register
Your risk register task
What is peer review?
References
Scope management and associated challenges
Overview of scope management
Welcome to the week
Lesson overview
Scope management: internal and external projects
What is scope creep?
What is gold plating?
The cost of scope change
Case study: nuclear sector
Work Breakdown Structure
How to design a Work Breakdown Structure
Work Breakdown Structure: a practical example
Other breakdown structures
What is Buildings Information Modelling?
Lesson summary
Lesson overview
What is complexity?
How does complexity affect scope management?
What are major project sublimes?
Quiz introduction
Lesson summary
Writing your reflections
References
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
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