Project Management

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Department of Management and Economics

Synopsis:

The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to the various aspects of project management in the Czech environment. Emphasis will be placed on the functional areas of initiating the project, project planning methodology, project time management, precedence diagramming method, activity duration estimates, executing the project, cost estimates, procurements documents, controlling the project and evaluation criteria. In addition, the process of project management will be outlined and evolving changes in management practices discussed. The course is designed to provide engineers with the basic information and skills necessary to manage projects of the enterprise. Tuition suitably links sequence of managerial and technical subject categories and simultaneously reacts to topical business and graduation theses requirements. Teaching methods will include lectures, group presentations and discussions of cases as well as other exercises.

Requirements:

Requirements for course credit: Attendance, active participation, seminar paper.

Test of knowledge from lectures, exercises

Syllabus of lectures:

Modern Project Management. The Evolution toward Integrated Projects. Alignment of Pro-jects with Organization Strategy. A Project Portfolio Management System. Assessing the Ef-fectiveness of the Priority. Choosing the Appropriate Project Management Structure. Implica-tions of Organizational Culture for Organizing Projects. Establishing Project Priorities. Re-sponsibility Matrices. Estimating Project Times and Costs. Types of Project Constraints. Ra-tionale for Reducing Project Duration. Managing Project Teams. Managing International Pro-jects. Emphasis will be placed on the functional areas of initiating the project and project planning methodology. Each student is required to complete a project.

1.Introduction, description of the major issues

2.Definition of project goals strategy

3.Monitoring of project realization, continual improving management

4.Project manager in action, building trust

5.Project organization, structure and culture

6.The challenge of estimating project times and costs

7.Developing budgets, guidelines for times, costs and resources

8.Reducing project duration

9.Project partnering, the art of negotiating

10.Risk management process, identification and assessment

11.Projects of distributional channels

12.Specifications of quality management projects

13.Logistics and maintenance projects management

Syllabus of tutorials:

Course curriculum (half number of teaching hours):

1.Submission of semestral work

2.Calculations of the project plan

3.Calculations of the project budget

4.Risk management process

5.Reducing project duration

6.Methods of forecasting

7.Ahead of schedule exam for talented students

Study Objective:

The purpose of this course is to introduce the students into the various aspects of project man-agement in the Czech environment. Emphasis will be placed on the functional areas of initiat-ing the project, project planning methodology, project time management, precedence dia-gramming method, activity duration estimates, executing the project, cost estimates, procure-ments documents, controlling the project and evaluation criteria. In addition, the process of project management will be outlined and evolving changes in management practices dis-cussed. The course is designed to provide engineers with the basic information and skills nec-essary to manage projects of the enterprise. Tuition suitably links sequence of managerial and technical subject categories and simultaneously reacts to topical business and graduation the-ses requirements. Teaching methods will include lectures, group presentations and discussions of cases as well as other exercises.

Study materials:

Kavan M.: Projektové řízení inovací, skripta ČVUT, 2006.

Rosenau M.D.: Řízení projektů, Computer Press, 2000.

Kavan M.: Výrobní a provozní management, Grada Publishing, 2002

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: