Modern Approaches in Project Management

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In order to register for the course 16S3MPM, the student must have registered for the course 16S3PM in a previous semester.

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Institute of Management Studies

Synopsis:

The course presents an overview of the agile approaches and delves deeper into the most common ones, such as Scrum, Kanban, DSDM.

Upon completion of the course the students will be able to use basic tools of multiple approaches, be productive members of agile project teams.

The course is aligned to international standards and examinations.

Requirements:

The content of course: Standards of Project Management

Syllabus of lectures:

Traditional and agile project management - differences and similarities:

Design Thinking;

Agile approaches - overview;

Scrum - project cycle;

Scrum - roles;

Scrum - practices, tools and techniques;

Kanban/Lean;

Agile in the industry

Syllabus of tutorials:

As above - see „Outline and Syllabus“

Study Objective:

The aim of the course is to present currently used agile approaches in alignment with the international standards and uses.

Study materials:

Rational Project Manager - Longman, Mullins;

Scrum Guide; Scrum Primer; Do Better Scrum;

The Agile Extension to the BABOKR Guide - IIBA

+ selected readings on lean, kanban, design thinking

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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:

• N-PRI-prez.forma od 15/16 (compulsory course of the branch)