- Docente: Giuseppe Gherardi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: SECS-P/08
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: 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
- Time and resources control
- Projects and quality - QFD
- Multiproject environment characteristics
- Multiproject planning
- Resources balance in multiproject
- Organizational structures
- Relationship and complexity
- Communication, motivation, negotiation
- Creativity as a tool in project management
Readings/Bibliography
Teacher's slides
Archibald "Project Management" - Franco Angeli, 2004
Teaching methods
The theoretical lessons will be integrated with 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
Office hours
See the website of Giuseppe Gherardi