Project Management

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Department of Management and Economics

Synopsis:

Modern Project Management. The Evolution Toward Integrated Projects. Alignment of Projects with Organization Strategy. A Project Portfolio Management System. Assessing the Effectiveness of the Priority. Choosing the Appropriate Project Management Structure. Implications of Organizational Culture for Organizing Projects. Establishing Project Priorities. Responsibility Matrices. Estimating Project Times and Costs. Types of Project Constraints. Rationale for Reducing Project Duration. Managing Project Teams. Managing International Projects. Emphasis will be placed on the functional areas of initiating the project and project planning methodology. Each student is required to complete the project assignment.

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, presentation in Power Point, final test, presentation. Exam from lecturing topics.

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:

The first seminar will be divided into individual projects assignment. The term will be followed by workshops in which each student in fifteen minutes presenting your individual project, which will be a sign in front of others to defend.

Topics exercises (half hours):

* Assignment term paper claims and explanations

* Calculations in the preparatory stages of the project

* Calculations in economic phases of projects

* Tools for project risk management

* Calculations time estimates

* Methods capacitive forecasting

* Forming productive project team.

* Growing your own style of project management and reading other people's styles.

* Analysis of how different styles reflect the success of the project in progress

* Workshops with presentations of individual case studies according to specification.

Study Objective:

The course improves student´s ability to manage proper projects. Lecturing project methodology tells what students have to do, to manage successfully their projects from start to finish. It describes every important step in the project life cycle in depth, so students know exactly which tasks to complete, when and how. Whether he/she is an expert or a novice, it helps them complete project tasks faster than before. As a project manager, students need a project management methodology to steer their projects in the right direction and keep them on track. They also need it to help them manage their projects in a structured, repeatable fashion. That way, they can apply the same approach to every project they undertake. Lecturing project management methodology containing host practical tasks, charts, tables and examples to help guide projects towards success. In addition to including an entire project management process, it also contains all of the project management templates, forms and checklists needed. As well 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.

Study materials:

(1) Kavan M.: Projektové řízení inovací, skripta ČVUT, 2006.

(2) Rosenau M.D.: Řízení projektů, Computer Press, 2000.

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

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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: Fifth Edition (PMBOK Guide), Project Management Institute, 2013, ISBN: 1935589679 / 978-1935589679.

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Further information:

http://www.rep.fs.cvut.cz

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: