Project Management

The course is a substitute for:

Project Management (16PMG)

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Department of Economics, Management and Humanities

Synopsis:

The object of the subject is to provide an integrated explanation of procedures and methods, enabling the gaining of knowledge and skills for the praparation and implementation of business projects. The subject deals with the principles, methods and practises of planing and the management of individual project implementation as well as issues relating to the creation of suitable organisational environment. Attention is also placed on team project management.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Project, basis of project management, project planning, project implementation control

2. Project Development Cycle, pre-investment, investment and operational stages, activites, documents of PDC

3. Organisational structures, integration of the project management into the organisational structure

4. Team management, project manager, project hierarchy, project team, communication

5. Project planning, definition part, description and assigning parts, factual content of the planning process

6. Decomposition of the planning process, principles of defining project targets

7. The structured decomposition of project activities, methods, and perspectives, of the decomposition

8. Stage model. Responsibility matrix

9. Time implementation schedules and methods of their creation

10. Documents of the planning process

11. Content of the project implementation control, instruments for monitoring the project implementation situation

12. Changes of the project, completion of the project

13. Computer support of project management

14. Reserves

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Typical problems of project management, classic mid-year essays

2. Time analysis of the project, significance of time reserves for the project management - a case study

3. Project cost analysis - a case study

4. Project resource analysis - a case study. Assignment of a mid-year essay

5. Project investment stage: construction project, participants, supplier systems

6. Project investment stage: construction as an object of public interest, legislation

7. Economic risk of project, project risk curves

8. Economic risk of project - a case study

9. Decomposition of activities, a stage model - a case study

10. Responsibility matrix - a case study

11. Checking of, and tutorials on, mid - year essay composition

12. Checking the project implementation, checking the meeting of deadlines - a case study

13. Checking costs and resources - a case study

14. Submission of the mid-year essay. Credit

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. M. D. Rosenau, Jr. : Successful Project Management. USA:John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1998

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Economics and Management of Power Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Economics and Management in Electrical Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)