Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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Code: | SSUD12-114 |
EFTSL: | 0.125 |
Faculty: | Faculty of Society and Design |
Semesters offered: |
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Credit: | 10 |
Subject fees: |
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Description
The subject explores project quality management, essential for ensuring high standards in projects across all sectors such as construction, IT, software development, healthcare, and large-scale events like the Olympics. This subject covers the entire quality management process from project initiation to closure. Students will learn about topics such as the continuous improvement cycle, lean production, quality audits, compliance and verification, cost of quality (defects) workplace health and safety and will understand how project management methodologies like waterfall and agile influence quality outcomes. The course emphasises achieving successful outcomes by realizing high specification standards, and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction, preparing students to maintain and enhance quality in diverse professional settings.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Practice knowledge needed for effective project quality management on an authentic case study
- Produce a quality audit and use it to develop a means for managing performance
- Demonstrate an ability to prepare a defect rectification report as a basis for tactical decision-making
- Apply and implement effective quality management practices to identify, address, and resolve quality-related issues throughout the project lifecycle
Enrolment requirements
Requisites: |
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Assumed knowledge: |
Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge.
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Subject dates
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January 2024
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 12/11/2023 Semester start: 15/01/2024 Subject start: 15/01/2024 Last enrolment: 28/01/2024 Teaching census: 09/02/2024 Withdraw - Financial: 10/02/2024 Withdraw - Academic: 02/03/2024 -
January 2025
Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 10/11/2024 Semester start: 20/01/2025 Subject start: 20/01/2025 Last enrolment: 02/02/2025 Teaching census: 14/02/2025 Withdraw - Financial: 15/02/2025 Withdraw - Academic: 08/03/2025
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens: | 12/11/2023 |
Semester start: | 15/01/2024 |
Subject start: | 15/01/2024 |
Last enrolment: | 28/01/2024 |
Teaching census: | 09/02/2024 |
Withdraw - Financial: | 10/02/2024 |
Withdraw - Academic: | 02/03/2024 |
Standard Offering | |
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Enrolment opens: | 10/11/2024 |
Semester start: | 20/01/2025 |
Subject start: | 20/01/2025 |
Last enrolment: | 02/02/2025 |
Teaching census: | 14/02/2025 |
Withdraw - Financial: | 15/02/2025 |
Withdraw - Academic: | 08/03/2025 |