Strategic Project Management

Introduction and consolidation

The students are able to:
• explain the role of project management in corporate strategy.
• develop long-term project strategies that coincide with the company's overall objectives.
• create project portfolios that support the company's strategic objectives.
• identify and assess project risks at a strategic level.
• apply methods for prioritizing, evaluating and improving projects in the portfolio from a strategic perspective.
• explain the importance of stakeholder management for project success and carry out strategic stakeholder analysis
• implement decision-making processes and escalation mechanisms in complex project scenarios and project portfolios.

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• Tasks, tools and methods of project management
• Organization: Structural, process and project organization
• Schedule, cost and quality management
• Resource management
• Communication and integration
• Risk management

• Angliss, K., & Harpum, P. (Eds.). (2023). Strategic portfolio management: In the multi-project and program organisation (1 Edition). Routledge.
• Ding, R., Wagner, R., & Bodea, C.-N. (Eds.). (2022). Research on Project, Programme and Portfolio Management: Projects as an Arena for Self-Organizing. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86248-0
• Erne, R. (2022). Lean Project Management—How to Apply Lean Thinking to Project Management. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35572-2
• Isichenko, M. (2021). Quantitative portfolio management: The art and science of statistical arbitrage. Wiley.
Project Management Institute (Ed.). (2017). The standard for portfolio management (Fourth edition). Project Management Institute, Inc.].

Project and examination

English

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30

2.5

Blended Learning

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director of studies

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integrated lecture

Compulsory

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