Project Management (E)

First cycle, Bachelor

The students are able to: • Understand the importance of project management for a company. • Describe generic project phases and project results. • Use methods to define project goals, define project scope and plan tasks, duration and resource requirements. • Identify roles and participants in a project. • Understand the importance of communication in projects. • Apply methods to manage projects. • Understand the reasons for the failure of projects and the corresponding measures. • Understand the difference between single and multi-project management.

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• Presentation of the specifics of the project organization and the organizational integration into, impact on, or resulting problems in companies. • Imparting basic project management methods, such as • Planning of goals, structure, time, costs and organization • Performing environment, risk and interdependency analyses or project controlling/communication in the various phases of projects (start, implementation/controlling, conclusion) on the basis of a selected project management standard. • Addressing the relevant social skills for successful project work and the mediation of successful practical projects and typical pitfalls. • Classification of the terms project management, program management and multi-project management.

• Gareis (2005): Happy Projects!: Project and programme management. Project portfolio management. Management of the project-oriented organization. Management in the project-oriented society, 1. Aufl., MANZ Verlag Wien • Patzak, Rattay (2014): Projektmanagement: Leitfaden zum Management von Projekten, Projektportfolios und projektorientierten Unternehmen, 6. Aufl., Linde Verlag Wien

Written exam

English

1.5

10

1.0

Lecture

2

Prof. (FH) Dr. Martin Adam

First year of studies

vzMGM2

integrated lecture

Compulsory

not applicable