USESEP179 Project Management

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Bc. Václav Kulhavý (lecturer)
Bc. Václav Kulhavý (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Bc. Václav Kulhavý
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide the students with principal knowledge of project management with usage of modern methods of work and with usage of information and communication technologies. The students will be presented basic processes and rules (structure of guidance of the project, composition of project team, recommended type of positions and activities in project, labour-law relations), with criteria of legitimacy, with management and decision in project realization, with management of financial supplies and management of expenditures and administration of the whole project. On concrete examples, the students will be introduced applications for project management, for diagrams creation and for PDF files creation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Principal concepts and principles of project management
    2. Characteristics and typology of projects, documentation
    3. Organization and coordination of project, role and conducting structures of projects
    4. Project targets and target groups
    5. Activity planning and planning of project resources, optimalization of projects, usage of applications
    6. Management and decision, basic concepts
    7. Management of financial supplies, budget making and management of expenditures, project financing and management of investments
    8. Management of risks and changes
    9. Leading people and project teams, culture of projects
    10. Horizontal themes, project outputs, monitoring indicators
    11. Administration of the project, monitoring and control of the course of the project, operating statements, termination of the project, audit, obligatory appendices of the project
    12. Procedure of commission procurement when acquiring goods, services and construction works from the financial supplies
Literature
    required literature
  • DVOŘÁK D. Řízení projektů. Computer Press, Brno, 2008. info
  • MILTON, D. ROSENAU. Řízení projektů. Computer Press, Brno, 2007. info
  • TAYLOR Y. Začínáme řídit projekty. Computer Press, Brno, 2007. info
    recommended literature
  • DOLANSKÝ, V., MĚKOTA, V., NĚMEC, V. Projektový management: 1. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1996. ISBN 80-7169-285-5. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Lecture with a video analysis
Assessment methods
The analysis of student 's performance
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Creation and defence of project. Evaluation in a form of written test in the environment of e-learning course testing theoretical and practical knowledge of given issue.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2017.
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