Learning Objectives:
Students will acquire the competencies of the following knowledge and skills:
- Knowledge: Students know the general life cycle of projects as well as essential processes of project management and can explain them. Students can categorize risk management as a permanent task and are familiar with the basic principles of agile project management.
- Skills: Students can create and use central planning documents in the course of projects and they can document, analyze and control project progress. They can use basic techniques such as the earned value method.
- Competencies: Students can work competently in projects - both in traditional and agile projects.
Course content:
In line with the objective of the Bachelor's degree program to train academic specialists, the focus of the learning objectives is on the operational basics of project management. Aspects of personnel management are addressed but not dealt with in depth.
- Project organization in the company (structural and procedural organization)
- Necessary framework conditions for project initiation (budget, resources, deadlines, legal requirements)
- Involvement of service providers and consultants with a focus on service and work contracts, SLAs and negotiation basics (focus also on temporary employment, bogus self-employment, liability, warranty)
- Project management, controlling and reporting during project implementation
- Communication within the project, with the client and the public
- Documentation (project file, operating concept)
- Risk management in the project, from problem identification to decision making to problem solving
- Special methods and procedures in project work, e.g. cost/benefit analysis, earned value analysis, estimation methods, logical framework, milestone trend analysis, decision table technique
- Moderation and presentation
- Dealing with resistance and conflicts
- Project completion, transfer to the line, post-calculation, lessons learned
