Course detail
Project Management
ÚSI-2IDMPAcad. year: 2015/2016
The life cycle of project. Project management knowledge areas. Process oriented organization. Project management processes. Basic terms of process management. The relation of process management to project management and to total quality management. Application of processes in project management. Project and process management software support. Norms and current standards in project and process management.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Continuous checking of the project solution by the supervisor. Student has to hand both home assignments, attend at computer classes, hand project (to get minimum of 1 point for all home assignments, computer classes and project) and has to get at least 20 of the points from the home assignments, computer classes and project.
Course curriculum
2. Using principles of process approach to project management.
3. Project of management knowledge areas.
4. Processes of defining project.
5. Processes of planning project.
6. Processes of organizing project.
7. Processes of executing project.
8. Processes of controlling project.
9. Processes of closuring project.
10. Principles of process improvement.
11. Methods and progress in project management. Critical chain scheduling.
12. Norms and the current standards in project and process management.
13. Software support for managing projects and processes.
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Aims
To understand relation of process management to project management and to Total Quality Management.
To create definite conception about the needs of successful project management.
To become acquainted with software product metrics.
To become acquainted with basic standards and norms of project management.
To become acquainted with the methods of measurement quality process, with techniques of process management implementation and with the basic standards and norms of process management.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Schulte, P.: Complex IT Project Management, AUERBACH PUBLICATION, 2004, 314 s., ISBN 0-8493-1932-3. (EN)
Schwalbe, K.: Řízení projektů v IT, Computer Press, a.s., 2007, 720 s., ISBN 978-80-251-1526-8. (CS)
Recommended reading
Vose, D.: Risk Analysis A Quantitative Guide Wiley, 2008, 735 p., ISBN-0: 0470512849, ISBN-3: 978-0470512845. (EN)
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