- Docente: Paolo Di Marco
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)
Learning outcomes
The course provides students with an understanding of current issues related to critical business management: planning and project management. The course aims to help participants develop skills that enable them to: - understand what Project Management means and describe the skills required for project definition, planning and management. - Understand media-to-end relationships and articulate a hierarchy of goals. - develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) and identify precisely tasks and responsibilities. - allocating resources to individual products and conducting cost analysis. - Apply a streamlined approach to the definition, design and implementation of a project. - to consider the importance of the various Critical Path Methods (CPM) techniques and when they should be employed. - Understand the importance of leadership and team building to achieve business goals.
Course contents
First Part - The Culture of the Project
- Project Definition
- Project Management
- The Life Cycle of the Project
- Project Types
- The Context and Project Stakeholders
- Projects in Organizations
- The Multiproject Management
- The Project Manager
Second Part - Project Management Tools
- Starting and Setting Up the Project
- Project Planning
- Execution and Project Control
- The Closing of the Project Activity Structuring and Assignment of Liability
- The Critical Path Method
- The Program Evaluation and Review Tecnique
- Activity Calendar
- Estimates of workloads
- Project Budget
Third Part - Project Control and Management
- Project Control
- Evaluation of Project Advancement
- The Timeline Estimate
- The Risks and Critics of the Project
- The Agile methodology
- The Scrum
Optional Deployment - Project Team
- The Project Team Choice
- Project Team Manager
- Project Manager Leadership Style
- Peopel Motivation
- Delegate
- Meetings Management
- Change Management
Readings/Bibliography
TEXT BOOK:
Come sviluppare in azienda la metodologia del project management di Paolo Di Marco e Daniele Rimini - Bologna, Edizioni Martina, 2008
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Project management - La gestione di progetti e programmi complessi Russel D. Archibald - Milano, Franco Angeli, 2004
Guida alle conoscenze di gestione progetti a cura di Enrico Mastrofini (ISIPM) - Milano, Franco Angeli, 2015
Teaching methods
References to the media (slide, readings) and front lessons
Fix ideas through case studies, testimonials and case histories
Group exercise to make the acquired knowledge
Assessment methods
The test will take place in writing and will be divided into three parts:
- multiple choice questions
- open question
- business case
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Di Marco