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.
Status: Project Risk Management
Project Risk Management
Status: Case Studies
Case Studies
Intermediate·Course·19 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Jul 19, 2020
A great learning experience, more of case studies and theories, but having a practical sense of this course. Will be helpful for me in the completion of my bachelor's degree
4.0
·Reviewed Jan 19, 2024
Excellent content, pretty comprehensive, but references are a little bit old. Cases of study are interesting and acceptable.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 8, 2020
A very interesting course. Provides useful knowledge with interesting examples and challenging tasks. Recommend to everyone studying business or engineering.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 20, 2023
A course that should be done by students seeking to get into Project Management. An interactive course filled with a lot of peer-reviewed assignments.
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 31, 2020
It was a unique and intensive course. The reading materials were excellent especially Articles. will definitely recommend it.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 7, 2020
Had a great experience learning here. One of the bestest course for learning major engineering project problems and their performances.
4.0
·Reviewed Sep 1, 2023
It is very useful course included new knowage for me and benchmarks and cited were very useful from famous projects. but the instructor did not attend by live videos enough time
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 8, 2020
Excellent material - I have over 30 years experience - but am still learning! How do I get a certificate for this Course??
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 9, 2019
The course is very much practicality oriented. Learning process and structure of the course is very well and easy to go.
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 19, 2020
Useful & Informative course explained in crisp 5-15 min sessions. Assignments involve application of the learning that help the concept to be understood more clearly
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 19, 2020
A very thorough course, perfectly understood by me who is just a third-year civil engineering student! I would like to see more course like this
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 21, 2020
BIG THANKS FOR UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS AND SPECIAL THANKS FOR DR Giorgio locatelli. he has guided us nicely in this course.he made the course smooth and easy
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Ahmed
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·Reviewed May 15, 2020
Why this course needs our account be verified as compare to other which don't requires ? I am finding difficulties in getting certificate.
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Sambit
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·Reviewed Apr 19, 2020
The course is beautifully designed in a very crisp manner which makes it easy to understand. The real-time project scenarios and the assignments make the course robust.
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mustafa
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·Reviewed Oct 27, 2018
It is very good course. It helped me alot in learning new things.
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Jose
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·Reviewed Apr 22, 2020
Top class academics, leaders on their field. Excellent content. The course covers so many aspects go Major engineering projects and the activities are demanding enough to challenge students to think different and engage with academic writing. Definitely a recommended course!
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Huma
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·Reviewed Sep 29, 2020
Very interesting and well structured content. Now moving on to complete the specialization. Engaging and relevant data and references. I recommend to anyone in major infrastructure project environment or who are interested to understand them in detail.
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Jappanjot
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·Reviewed Jul 20, 2020
A great learning experience, more of case studies and theories, but having a practical sense of this course. Will be helpful for me in the completion of my bachelor's degree
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Ranjini
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 19, 2020
Useful & Informative course explained in crisp 5-15 min sessions. Assignments involve application of the learning that help the concept to be understood more clearly
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Anna
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 9, 2020
A very interesting course. Provides useful knowledge with interesting examples and challenging tasks. Recommend to everyone studying business or engineering.
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Mina
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·Reviewed Jul 13, 2019
Great Course, I get a lot of new definitions and methods for major projects
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Prashant
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·Reviewed Oct 14, 2019
Nice learning experience
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Pankhuri
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·Reviewed Jul 6, 2020
I personally loved this course because it gave project management very new aspects such as the difference between project management success and project success, etc. The main highlight of this course is its case studies which help achieve a lot more clarity about the content being taught as compared to the learning made through just listening to the lectures.
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Benjamin
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·Reviewed Aug 8, 2020
Very good information about the course, I learned a lot with the cases, papers and the explanations of Dr. Giorgio Locatelli. Thanks for bringing such important information about Major Projects. Thanks University of Leeds.
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Jamal
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 20, 2020
This course is really helpful for those who seek employment opportunities or future career in Construction project management (CPM). It has allowed me to widen my understanding of managing engineering projects.
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Willian
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 23, 2019
Un tema de altísima importancia e interés, especialmente para países en desarrollo. Recomendaría que este tópico fuera incluido en curso y/o posgrados de proyectos en las universidades.
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HAMZAH
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 22, 2020
BIG THANKS FOR UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS AND SPECIAL THANKS FOR DR Giorgio locatelli. he has guided us nicely in this course.he made the course smooth and easy
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Thalia
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 20, 2020
A very thorough course, perfectly understood by me who is just a third-year civil engineering student! I would like to see more course like this
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Amritpal
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 8, 2020
Had a great experience learning here. One of the bestest course for learning major engineering project problems and their performances.
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Nwachukwu
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·Reviewed Sep 11, 2020
This course has been a revelation for me. It takes you through all the modules in way that is easy to understand and rich in content.
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Jahid
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 10, 2020
The Course Major Engineering Project Performance is very efficient and effective in my point of view. I have learned lot of knowledge