Master
2022/2023
Traditional and Flexible Project Management Methods
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Investment Project Management)
Area of studies:
Management
Delivered by:
Department of Strategic and International Management
Where:
Graduate School of Business
When:
1 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Olga Nikolaevna Ilyina
Master’s programme:
Управление инвестиционными проектами
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course explores modern project management by providing an enterprise-level, experiential view of the discipline focused on connecting projects to the organization's mission, vision, and values. The theme of the course is applying key project management tools and techniques, through project-based group work. Groups select, plan, report, and then present on their project's scope, schedule and communications elements using tools such as Project Charter, WBS, OBS, responsibility matrix, network diagram. Students also gain familiarity with important new concepts in project management: Agile frameworks, sustainability thinking, responsible project management. The course provides an understanding of how Agile principles and practices are changing the landscape of project management. The course is designed to give students fresh new insight into how to successfully blend Agile and traditional project management principles and practices in the right proportions to fit any business and project situation.
Learning Objectives
- To provide students with systematic, complex view on structure and content of the field of project management based on theory and practice as well as requirements of international project management professional standards (IPMA ICB, PMBOK).
Expected Learning Outcomes
- know advantages and peculiarities of a variety of project management methodologies (traditional, agile, hybrid);
- know structure and content of project management tools and techniques based on international project management professional standards (PMBOK(PMI), IPMA ICB, PRINCE2, GPM P5, ISO 21500, P2M);
- be able to do undertake project diagnosis and to choose a project management methodology for the project;
- be able to develop key processes and documents in every functional area of project management including project scope and time management, project risk management, project human resources and communication management, project cost management.
Course Contents
- 1. PM Foundations
- 2. PM processes
- 3. Project-governance framework
- 4. Project Stakeholders
- 5. PM Trends
Assessment Elements
- HomeworkEssay.
- Control workProject presentation.
- ExamWritten, 3 essay questions.
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Effective project management, Clements J.P., Gido J., 2006
- Harvard Business Review Press. (2013). HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series). Harvard Business Review Press.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Managing successful projects with PRINCE2, , 2012