23607 - Project Management

Learning outcomes

The student understands contemporary issues in one of the most critical of all management activities: the planning and management of projects of any size. By the end of the course, the student is able to: - Describe the skills needed in today's dynamic environment to successfully define, plan and manage projects; - Schedule and allocate resources to a project, and to conduct a cost analysis; - Understand the concept of the Means-Ends Chain and the Hierarchy of Objectives; - Develop the work breakdown structure (WBS), and the various techniques in the Critical Path Method (CPM).

Course contents

Introduction to Project Management

1. Business organization development
2. TheOperations area in the company
3. The project: definitions and characteristics
4. Conditions to manage a good project

The project setting

1. The project life cycle
2. Starting a new project
3. The project plan
4. TheWBS
5. The responsability matrix

The project plan

1. Project plan techniques (Time management- PERT/CPM/GANTT -, Resources management, project budgeting)

The project plan control

1. Time and resources control
2. Projects and quality -QFD

Multiprojectenvironments (mention)

1. Multiproject enviroments characteristics
2. Multiproject planning
3. resources balance inmultiproject

Organizational aspects

1. Organizational structures
2. Relationship and complexity
3. Communication and negoziation
4. Creativity as a tool in project management

Material is available on my personal website: www.giuseppegherardi.weebly.com

Readings/Bibliography

Basics:

Material to download from ggherardi.altervista.it

Archibald "Project Management" - 2004

Hubert Jaoui “Creativity: haow to use”

Baglieri E., Biffi A. et alii “Organizzare e gestire progetti” – ETAS, Milano, 1999

D. Goleman “Emotive intelligence”

M. Morrel, S. Capparell “TheShackleton way – The human dimension in leadership”

D. Goleman, R.E. Boyatzis, A. McKee "Primal leadership" - 2002

R.E. Boyatzis, A. McKee "Resonant leadership" - Harward Business Scholl Press, 2005

Teaching methods

The teaching method is a mix between lesson, case history, samples, experience transmission, teamwork and multimedia supports.

Lessons are the aim to transmit basics and the main project tools. Lessons are mixed with witness of a concrete cases.

After the basics, students will be busy to solve a history case by teamwork and classroom presentations.

At the end, an externalmanager willshow a real case.

Assessment methods

The teamwork in the classroom is a good occasion to evaluate students.

For who cannot be preset to all the lessons, the valuation will be a written exam with a case and one or more theory questions.

Teaching tools

The main tools adopted are: video clip to show several cases; case history dramatized and analized in the classroom; teamwork; multimedia presentation.

Links to further information

http://www.giuseppegherardi.weebly.com

Office hours

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