Seminar with Experts from Practice 1 Honoris 1

  • Credits: 3
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: winter
  • Year: 1
  • Faculty of Business Economics with seat in Košice

Teachers

Included in study programs

Corporate Business and Marketing

Teaching results

The course aims to provide students with an overview and explanation of project management tools according to the internationally recognized methodology of PMI, project management tools.
Knowledge:
The graduate will understand the issues of project management, its importance, development, and implementation in specific conditions, as well as understand the issues of applying project management in business practice.
Skill:
The graduate has the ability to apply the instrumentation of project management on a specific example, critically evaluate the situation, propose solutions to project management problems at the tactical and strategic level.
Competence:
The graduate has the ability to work with information - search for it, select, analyze and synthesize with an orientation to use in project management.

Indicative content

Lectures:
1. Bases of project management in practice.
2. The role of the project manager in practice.
3. Project planning in practice, project planning in a specific company.
4. Control and evaluation of the project in practice.
5. Introduction to project management according to PMI in practice.
6. Critical and systematic thinking in project management applied in practice.
7. Quantitative methods in project management in practice.
8. Practical tools used in project management in practice.
9. Organization of project management in a particular company.
10. Project team management in practice.
11. Theoretical preparation for the case study 1.
12. Theoretical preparation for the case study 2.
13. Theoretical preparation for the case study 3.
Seminars:
1. Bases of project management in a particular company.
2. The role of the project manager in practice, in the company.
3. Project planning in practice, project planning in a specific company.
4. Control and evaluation of the project - practical examples from practice.
5. Introduction to project management according to PMI in a particular company.
6. Critical and systematic thinking in project management applied in practice.
7. Practical examples and solutions of applied methods in project management.
8. Practical tools used in project management in the company.
9. Organization of project management on the example of a specific company.
10. Project team management in specific companies.
11. Case study 1.
12. Case study 2.
13. Case study 3.

Support literature

1. Project Management Institute. 2013. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. (PMBOK® Guide )—Fifth Edition (ENGLISH). Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute, 2013. 589 s. ISBN 9781935589679.
2. HEAGNEY, J. 2016. Fundamentals of project management. Amacom, 2016.
3. KERZNER, H. 2017. Project management case studies. John Wiley & Sons.
4. KERZNER, H. 2018. Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John Wiley & Sons, 2018.

Syllabus

Lectures: 1. Bases of project management in practice. 2. The role of the project manager in practice. 3. Project planning in practice, project planning in a specific company. 4. Control and evaluation of the project in practice. 5. Introduction to project management according to PMI in practice. 6. Critical and systematic thinking in project management applied in practice. 7. Quantitative methods in project management in practice. 8. Practical tools used in project management in practice. 9. Organization of project management in a particular company. 10. Project team management in practice. 11. Theoretical preparation for the case study 1. 12. Theoretical preparation for the case study 2. 13. Theoretical preparation for the case study 3. Seminars: 1. Bases of project management in a particular company. 2. The role of the project manager in practice, in the company. 3. Project planning in practice, project planning in a specific company. 4. Control and evaluation of the project - practical examples from practice. 5. Introduction to project management according to PMI in a particular company. 6. Critical and systematic thinking in project management applied in practice. 7. Practical examples and solutions of applied methods in project management. 8. Practical tools used in project management in the company. 9. Organization of project management on the example of a specific company. 10. Project team management in specific companies. 11. Case study 1. 12. Case study 2. 13. Case study 3.

Requirements to complete the course

Seminars: 100%, of which:
presentation of the project and solving tasks for exercises 100%

Student workload

• participation in lectures - 26 hours
• participation in seminars - 26 hours
• preparation of the semester assignment - 26 hours
Total: 78 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

English

Date of approval: 20.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 22.07.2022