Project management

• Project Management Methodologies

• Project Initiation

• Project Planning

• Project Execution

• Project Monitoring, Controlling & Closing

• Complex Project environments

The Project Management course has five main objectives, namely:

• To develop students’ project management skills both hard and soft, through greater theoretical understanding and practical application of the project management principles.

• To explain the essential skills required to be an excellent project manager.

• To show what are the key elements that influence project management outcome.

• To explain why many projects fail and why few are successful

• To present the main project management frameworks: PMI and Prince2 for traditional projects and Agile for iterative or customer centric projects.

• 6x4h theoretical sessions with case studies and readings

• Self-learning modules

• Groupwork

Références, bibliographie et lectures recommandées

Some textbooks are suggested to complement the course and allow deeper understanding of key concepts.

• Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project, 2007, Richard Newton

• Project Management Lite, 2012, Juana Clarck Craig

• Agile Project Management & Scrum, Quickstart Guides, 2015, ClydeBank Business,

• SCRUM: a Breathtakingly brief 1 Agile Introduction, 2012, Chris Sims & Hillary Jonson

• The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses, 2011, Eric Ries

• The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth, 2017, Eric Ries

Contacts

Please contact first Nicolas, assistant of the course:

Nicolas Ameye nicolas.ameye@solvaypostgrad.net (assistant)

Frederic Hoffmann, frederic.hoffmann@solvay.edu (lecturer)

Campus

Solbosch

Méthode(s) d'évaluation

• Autre

Autre

Students’ assessment will be based on the following components:

• Final group case study (40%): Final Project Case (to be submitted by each group)

• Group assignments (20%): The group assignments take place in the course sessions and relate to in-class small group projects.

• Individual assignment (25%): students will have to answer one practical question on the Final Project Case to demonstrate their understanding of all project’s managerial dimensions.

• Class participation (15%): class participation refers to the discussion and knowledge sharing in the class.

Construction de la note (en ce compris, la pondération des notes partielles)

100% written evaluation

Langue(s) d'évaluation

• anglais