- Docente: Giuseppe Gherardi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: SECS-P/08
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Business Administration (cod. 0897)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)
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
- Business organization development
- The project: definitions and characteristics
- Conditions to manage a good project
- The project setting
- The project life cycle
- Starting a new project
- The project plan
- The WBS
- The responsibility matrix
- The project plan
- Project plan techniques: Time management - PERT/CPM/GANTT -, resources, financial
- The risk project management
- The project plan control
- Multiproject environments
- Project management and organizational aspects
Readings/Bibliography
Teacher's slides
Archibald "Project Management" - Franco Angeli, 2004
Teaching methods
The theoretical lessons will be integrated with a video movie clips, a witness about a real life case history.
Assessment methods
The written exam will be a case to solve with the planning tools and one or more theoretical questions in alternative a close answer test, issued by digital tool can replace the case.
75% of the evaluation will take place from the exam and 25% from the group case developed in the classroom.
Teaching tools
The material needed to attend the course is published on the professor's website, please, use the link to join it:
http://giuseppegherardi.weebly.com
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Links to further information
http://giuseppegherardi.weebly.com
Office hours
See the website of Giuseppe Gherardi
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.