Project management

About this course

The Project management aims to utilize understanding the principles and practices of project management in the area of digitalization. The students will learn and understand the strengths and drawbacks of project management. The main goal is to improve the effectiveness of the students in project management: from initiation to day-to-day activities, including skills and competences of the project manager, to manage, plan, monitor, and control projects of various types.

Expected learning outcomes

 

Knowledge and understanding:

  • Foundations of project management and its importance to the success of projects
  • Understand the process of managing projects, including project plan, human behavior, interdependencies, rules and measurement.
  • Effectively apply learned concepts (e.g., CCPM, Scrum) in day-to-day environment.

Indicative Syllabus

  • Introduction of Project management
  • Traditional way of managing projects / V-model
  • Limitation of traditional project management principles
  • Ensuring stability, predictability and reliability of deliverables
  • Reducing time needed for finishing tasks and work in progress
  • Agile Project management
  • Critical Chain Project Management
  • Scrum
  • Project lifecycle

Case study

Teaching / Learning Methodology

  • Lectures with active student participation (explanation, discussions, questions, examples and problem-solving).
  • Homework related to personal or working environment (reflecting personal experience, project work, teamwork, methods of critical judgement, discussions, giving feedback, and educational games).
  • Experimental exercises that are based on experience, cooperation and problem learning (independent study, discussions, explanation, observation, teamwork, case study, method of critical reading and writing, role play, collaborative learning, evaluation, self-evaluation).

Recommended Reading

TBA

Start Date

2023

End Date

2024

Apply

2023

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Local Course Code

TBA

Cycle

TBA

Year of study

TBA

Language

English

Study Load

Tutorials: 36 hrs
Homework: 36 hrs
Self study: 72 hrs
In total 144 hours 5 ECTS

Mode of delivery

Weekly homework: 100%

Instructors

Dr. Tomaz Aljaz from University FINI Slovenia

Course coordinator

Dr. Tomaz Aljaz from University FINI Slovenia

E-mail

Dr. Kostas Petridis