73435 - Project Management

Course contents

-Current economic environment

-Project Manager glossary (Task, Project, Program, Process, Standard)

-Formal Project Management and Processes following the PMBOK®

-Project variables and the link with existing firms and their development path

-Organizational responsibilities and business roles

-Project planning and control (on/off criteria; "fifty on fifty", number of finished activities, predefined weighted milestones, proportional output to imput; estimated percentage. Earned Value Management)

-Main network techniques: CPM and PERT models

-Risk management (identification, assessing and more common error situations within risk management)

-Project reversibility

-Organizational and interpersonal issues in the team building (Project Manager tasks)

-Leadership as an organizational driver

-Negotiation (communication ad clash management)

-Pros and cons of formalized Project Management

-Organizational aspects and involved roles

Readings/Bibliography

Teaching material, consisting in freely elaborated slides, will be furnished by the teacher. All the slide material is referenced with observance of copyright laws.

Further to slides,  2017, A. Focacci, "Managing project investment irreversibility by accounting relations", International Journal of Project Management 35(6), 955-963, is INCLUDED within teaching program.

Reference texts for slides, only for students interested in a deeper knowledge of some aspects of programs, are:

-PMI (2013), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 5th ed Project Management Institute Inc. (Newton Square, USA)

-Pinto J.K. (2013), Project Management- Achieving Competitive Advantage, 3rd ed (Global Edition) Pearson Education Limited (Harlow, England)

-Titman, S.J. e Martin, J.D. (2011), Valuation-The art and science of corporate investment decisions, 2nd ed Prentice Hall (Boston, USA)

-Winston, W.L. e Albright, S.C. (2009), Practical Management Science Rev 3th ed South Western Cengage Learning (Mason. USA)

-Archibald, R.D. (2008), Project Management-La gestione di progetti e programmi complessi, 10ma edizione Franco Angeli Editore (Milano)
-Ragsdale, C.T. (2008), Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis – A practical introduction to Management Science, 5th ed Thomson South Western (Mason, USA)
-Nepi, A. (2006), Introduzione al Project Management, Guerini e Associati (Milano)

Warning: the course is oriented towards a modern perspective of scientific management following an interdisciplinary approach within a holistic business perspective. Skills of Accounting, Civil Law, Corporate Finance and Statistics are welcomed

Teaching methods

Front-line lessons with theoric explanations, written exercises and practice with computer by using Excel

Assessment methods

Written exam at the end of the course. Intermediate trials will be possible due in course.

All exams could be formed by combinations of numerical application problems, numerical application problems with related annexed theoretical questions, multiple choices.

Dates will be defined according with the program scheduled by the School and will be communicated by Almaesami application. Exam enrollment must be defined exclusivey by using the Almaesami application

Office hours

See the website of Antonio Focacci