OPF:INFNPAPR Project management - Course Information

INFNPAPR Project management

Extent and Intensity

2/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Guaranteed by

Department of Informatics and Mathematics – School of Business Administration in Karvina

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

Project Management is about managing the sequence of steps required to complete the project on time. It is about systematically incorporating the voice of the customers, creating a discipline way of prioritizing effort, working concurrently on all aspects of the project in multi-functional teams etc. At a commercial level the effectiveness of the management process will determine weather or not those projects play a role in providing a source of competitive advantage for a firm. Companies are constantly required to change what they do and why they do and when they do and how much will be these etc. There are huge opportunities for eliminating wasted time and almost every project. Only companies able to react to the real-world impulses of the volatile environment of the global market and whose management will be able to manage the company at the same time can become successful. That means to have had very good educated and trained managers on the every levels. This course shows the new techniques used by best-practice companies to improve their project management performance. There is only one feature of does it. This course gives the concepts of change and the methods by which the process of business and that is change.

Syllabus

• 1. What is project management. Current issues in Project Management, history of Project Management, definition of Project Management, fundamental terms, project, project as a conversation process, project environment, complexity of projects, continuously improving the process, practical examples.
  2. Life cycles. Project life-cycle, project within projects-work breakdown structure, project brief, proposal, practical examples.
  3. Project planning. Fundamental terms, input, output, process itself, managing of planning, communicating project plans (using graphical techniques), constructing and analyzing activity-on-arrow (A-o-A) diagrams, critical path analysis (CPA), activity-on-node (A-o-N) diagramming, planning with standards, practical examples.
  4. Estimation, resource analysis. Fundamental terms, costing proposals, budgets, resource analysis, curve effects, practical examples.
  5. Justification, evaluation. Fundamental terms, methods, risk analysis, cash-flow considerations, practical examples.
  6. Project?s teams. Fundamental terms, role of the team, teamwork, life-cycle of teams, managing personalities in teams, effective teamwork, concurrency in projects, practical examples.
  7. Management of project. Fundamental terms, matrix management, relationship between project management and line management, practical examples.
  8. Role of company management in project environments. Role of leadership, individual skills and attitudes, individual motivation, management style, development of management thinking, new management paradigms, cultural implications for project managers, practical examples.
  9. Project and investors. Role of investors, types of investors, investment capital, practical examples.
  10. Problem solving, decission making. Problem framework, modeling systems for decision-making, mathematical modeling techniques, decision trees, practical examples.
  11. Ict in project management. Hardware and Software for support of Project Management, practical examples.
  12. Microsoft office project. Fundamental terms, using software Microsoft Office Project in practical example.
  13. Case study. Making project and its defense.
  

Teaching methods

Skills demonstration
Seminar classes

Assessment methods

Grade

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Activity	Difficulty [h]
Ostatní studijní zátěž	38
Přednáška	26
Seminář	13
Zkouška	40
Summary	117

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