- Description:
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Annotation: Project definition and production processes. Project Life Cycles. The project goal setting. Organizational structures - project organization, matrix organizational form. Project management team and the project office. The description of the contracts. Network scheduling techniques - CPM, PERT. Management of the resources. Project management information systems. Analytical methods used in the project management. The content of the feasibility studies.
- Contents:
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Project definition and production processes.
Project Life Cycles. The project goal setting.
Organizational structures - traditional organization, matrix organizational form.
Project management team and the project office.
The description of the contracts.
Network scheduling techniques - CPM, PERT.
Management of the resources.
Earned value.
Agil methods - basic overview.
- Seminar contents:
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Analytical methods used in the project management.
Cause/Effect diagram.
Analysis of the real project.
The content of the feasibility studies.
- Recommended literature:
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E.G.Frankel, Project management in Engineering services and development, Butterworths, 1990.
J.R.Meredith, Project management - A Managerial APProach, Wiley, 1995.
A.Shtub, J.Bard, S.Globerson, Project management - Engineering, technology and implementation, Prentice Hall, 1994
- Keywords:
- project goals, time schedule, critical path method, optimization of resources, contract
Abbreviations used:
Semester:
- W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
- S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
- W,S ... both semesters
Mode of completion of the course:
- A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
- GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
- EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
- A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)
Weekly load (hours per week):
- P ... lecture
- C ... seminar
- L ... laboratory
- R ... proseminar
- S ... seminar