Project Management

  • Credits: 4
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 1
  • Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice

Teachers

Included in study programs

Corporate Financial Management

Teaching results

The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge about the basic processes of project management, project life cycle, tools and techniques used in project management, organizational support of projects, defining goals and planning project activities and resources, management and control of time, costs, quality, human resources, communication, procurement, and risks in the implementation of projects.
Knowledge:
• understanding of knowledge related to basic project management processes, project life cycle, tools and techniques used in project management, organizational support of projects, defining goals and planning of project activities and resources, management and control of time, costs, quality, human resources, communication, procurement, and risks in the implementation of projects.
Competence:
• project planning and project realization management of a simple project.
• select the type of project management software support
• to design the organizational structure of the project and to include in the existing structure of the company
Skill:
• project planning and control (objectives, decomposition, WBS, costs, quality),
• use of the necessary tools,
• teamwork,
• work in a project software environment.

Indicative content

Lectures:
1. Basic terminology. History of project management.
2. System approach to project management. Project life cycle. Logical framework of the project.
3. Project management processes. Tools and techniques for project management.
4. Creation and content of the project plan.
5. Decomposition of work on the project - Work Breakdown Structure. Verification and control of the scope of work.
6. Motivating, building, and managing project teams. Contractual relationship planning. Administrative support for contracts.
7. Project schedule. Schedule verification.
8. Project cost planning and management. Budgeting techniques. Financial management of the project.
9. Project risk management. Project quality management. Costs and techniques for quality control.
10. Project monitoring and control. Project control methods.
11. Management of project work. Project information and document management. Distribution of information. Progress reports.
12. Project completion process. Project evaluation. Final project report.
13. Specific project environment (small and medium enterprises, multi-project environment, virtual project teams).
Practicals:
1. Conditions, introduction to the semester project.
2. Identification of topics and project teams, introduction to work with ProjectLibre.
3. Creating and defining a project.
4. Assignment of resources.
5. Determining milestones and creating a WBS.
6. Assigning of resources to WBS. Creating a responsibility matrix.
7. Scheduling of milestones, WBS and resources.
8. Financial overviews of project planning and realisation. Reporting.
9. Project risk assessment.
10. Project monitoring, response to changes (manifestation of risks).
11. Presentation and evaluation of semester projects.
12. Presentation and evaluation of semester projects.
13. Summary, feedback, end of semester.

Support literature

Elementary literature:
1. Krchová, H., 2019. Praktický projektový manažment. Wolters Kluwer, 280s., ISBN 978-80-7598-465-4.
2. Křivánek, M. 2019. Dynamické vedení a řízení projektů. Systémovým myšlením k úspěšným projektům. Grada : Praha, 208 s., ISBN: 978-80-271-0408-6
3. Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project Management. 12th edition, John Wiley and Sons, 848 p., ISBN 9781119165354.
4. Heagney, J., 2018. Fundamentals of Project Management. HarperCollins Focus, 240 p., ISBN 0814437362.
5. Woeppel, M., 2015. Visual Project Management - Simplifying Project Execution to Deliver on Time and on Budget. Pinnacle Americas, Inc., 294 p., ISBN 9780692423257.
Supplementary literature:
6. Doležal, J. a kolektiv, 2016. Projektový management. Komplexně, prakticky a podle světových standardů. Grada, 424 s., ISBN 978-80-247-5620-2.
7. Kol., 2016. Techniky projektového řízení a finanční analýza projektů. Nejen pro ekonomy. EkoPress, 219 s., ISBN 978-80-87865-26-2.

Syllabus

Lectures: 1. Basic terminology. History of project management. 2. System approach to project management. Project life cycle. Logical framework of the project. 3. Project management processes. Tools and techniques for project management. 4. Creation and content of the project plan. 5. Decomposition of work on the project - Work Breakdown Structure. Verification and control of the scope of work. 6. Motivating, building, and managing project teams. Contractual relationship planning. Administrative support for contracts. 7. Project schedule. Schedule verification. 8. Project cost planning and management. Budgeting techniques. Financial management of the project. 9. Project risk management. Project quality management. Costs and techniques for quality control. 10. Project monitoring and control. Project control methods. 11. Management of project work. Project information and document management. Distribution of information. Progress reports. 12. Project completion process. Project evaluation. Final project report. 13. Specific project environment (small and medium enterprises, multi-project environment, virtual project teams). Practicals: 1. Conditions, introduction to the semester project. 2. Identification of topics and project teams, introduction to work with ProjectLibre. 3. Creating and defining a project. 4. Assignment of resources. 5. Determining milestones and creating a WBS. 6. Assigning of resources to WBS. Creating a responsibility matrix. 7. Scheduling of milestones, WBS and resources. 8. Financial overviews of project planning and realisation. Reporting. 9. Project risk assessment. 10. Project monitoring, response to changes (manifestation of risks). 11. Presentation and evaluation of semester projects. 12. Presentation and evaluation of semester projects. 13. Summary, feedback, end of semester.

Requirements to complete the course

Project, control test, final written exam
• control test 15 %
• project 20 %
• activity 5 %
Written final exam (open questions) 60 %

Student workload

• 26 h. lectures
• 26 h. practicals
• 13 h. preparation for practicals
• 13 h. preparation for control tests
• 26 h. preparation for final exam
104 h.total

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 06.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 24.01.2022