BSBPMG508A - Manage project risk

Unit code: BSBPMG508A | Study level: TAFE

Credit points

N/A

Location

Industry

Sunshine

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage risk within a project to avoid adverse effects on project outcomes. It covers determining, monitoring and controlling project risks, and assessing risk management outcomes.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

literacy skills to write risk management plans;
problem-solving skills to control risks;
lateral thinking skills to identify risks;
planning and organisational skills to monitor project progress, and;
analytical skills to review project outcomes in terms of risk management.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

risk management framework, and;
risk management techniques, tools and approaches.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.