90825 - Project Management Laboratory

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • 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

  1. Introduction to Project Management
  2. Business organization development
  3. The project: definitions and characteristics
  4. Conditions to manage a good project
  5. The project setting
  6. The project life cycle
  7. Starting a new project
  8. The project plan
  9. The WBS
  10. The responsibility matrix
  11. The project plan
  12. Project plan techniques: Time management - PERT/CPM/GANTT -, resources, financial
  13. The risk project management
  14. The project plan control
  15. Multiproject environments
  16. 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 and an automotive company visit.

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.


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