460-4049/02 – Project Management (PM)
Gurantor department | Department of Computer Science | Credits | 3 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Přemysl Soldán, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Přemysl Soldán, CSc. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2015/2016 | Year of cancellation | 2021/2022 |
Intended for the faculties | FEI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the course is to learn students with the methods used for the purposes of project management. Emphasis is placed on technical means and their use, namely the so-called hard skills mastery. After completion of the course students should have knowledge at a level to be able to pass a certification exam by IPMA level D.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial)
Summary
PM is designed for students who have expressed interest in the principles of project management. The subject deals project management with particular emphasis on the function of project manager. From this perspective, are discussed in various topics as well as practical exercises. Its aim is to create conditions for students and knowledge needed for project management.
Compulsory literature:
1. ROSENAU, M.: Successful Project Management: A Step-by-Step Approach with Practical Examples, Hardcover: 384 pages, Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (September 9, 2005), ISBN-10: 047168032X, ISBN-13: 978-0471680321
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
- presentation of assigned tasks in groups
- a written test
E-learning
Other requirements
Additional requirements are placed on the student.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Project Management Method
a. Characteristics of Effective Project Management
b. Confict Resolution
c. Authority of Project Management
d. Cultures and Values
e. Management Tools Used to Create Appropriate Management Behaviors
f. Assessment Inventory of Project Management
2. Organizational Support for Project Teams
a. Executive Roles and Responsibilities
b. The Line Manager Responsibility
c. Pure Functional Organization
d. Product and Project Organization
e. Matrix Organizational
f. Oraganization Trend – The Network Organization
3. Case Study – Confict in Organizational Authority
4. Teams as Building Blocks
a. The Effect of Making Job Responsibilities Overlap on Project Team Performance
b. The Effect of Rewards Based on Unit Performance of Team Performance
c. Examples of Project management in International Companies
5. Project Planning
a. Five Basic Project púlanning Elements
b. Developing Project Goals and Objectives
c. The Source of Errors in Project Goals and Objectives
d. Characteristics of Good Project Objectives
e. Task Assignments
f. Statement of Work
g. Work Breakdown Struktures (WBS)
h. Criteria for Developing a WBS
i. The Project Organization
j. Linear Responsibility Charts (LRC)
6. Project Schedules
a. Scheduling, a Process Communication
b. Nature of Paralleling
c. Gantt Charts
d. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM)
e. Determination of Critical Path
7. Resource Management and Budgeting
a. Resource Planning and Control
b. Network Analysis
c. The Project Baseline (Budget)
8. Workshop: Structuring and organizing Your Project Team
9. Project Control
a. When to Consider a Changing the Baseline
b. Organizational Requirements for Project Control
c. Managing Quality
d. Controlling Project schedule and Budgets
e. Dealing with Schedule and Cost Problems
f. Change Control
g. Project Reporting
10. Workshop: A Project Control Excercise
11. Project Risk Management
a. Definitions of Risk
b. The Project Risk Management Plan
c. The Risk Management Process
d. Risk Identification
e. Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis
f. Methods to Handle Risk
12. Workshop: Project Management in International Company
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction