Course detail

Project Manager

FIT-PMAAcad. year: 2023/2024

This course covers the following themes: CONTEXTUAL COMPETENCES: Strategy. Governance, structures and processes. Compliance, standards and regulations. Power and interests. Culture and values. BEHAVIOURAL COMEPETENCES: Self-reflection and self-management. Personal integrity and reliability. Personal communication. Relations and engagement. Leadership. Teamwork. Conflict and crisis. Resourcefulness. Negotiation. Results orientation. TECHNICAL COMPETENCES: Project design. Requirements and objectives. Scope. Time. Organisation and information. Quality. Finance. Resources. Procurement. Plan and control. Risk and opportunity. Stakeholders. Change and transformation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. RNDr. Jitka Kreslíková, CSc.

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Entry knowledge

  • Knowledge of higher mathematics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

  • Attendance list of classes - up to 12 points.
  • Three evaluated home assignments evaluated together up to 40 points.
  • Final written test up to 48 points.

  • Active attending minimal 10 classes.
  • Three evaluated home assignments.
  • Final written test. 

When a student cannot attend the excercise and proves it correctly (s)he can either attend the excercise with a different group (please inform the teacher about that) or (s)he can ask his/her teacher for alternative assignement that can compensate lost points from the excercise.

Aims

The goal of the course is to get complex and comprehensive overview in project management according to IPMA (International Project Management Association) standard, practice important techniques, methods and skills, which are confirmed in everyday project practice. To prepare students for written examination of internationally certification according to IPMA level D and C. After successful finishing this course, students fulfill necessary requirement of candidate for internationally valid certification IPMA level D.

  • Student will acquaint how project manage, creating plans and auxiliary plans including risk analysis.
  • Student overrules to define project source for assignment to activities and reallocation of sources.
  • Student will able to adopt oneself and to apply knowledge and skills from project management area in corresponding context.

 

  • Student will able to apply knowledge from project management like the member of team in project.
  • Obtained competency correspond requirement of candidate for internationally valid certification IPMA level D and C.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Doležal J.: Projektový management: komplexně, prakticky a podle světových standardů. Praha: Grada Publishing. Expert (Grada), 2016, ISBN 978-80-247-5620-2. 
Doležal J., Máchal P., Lacko B. a kol.: Projektový management podle IPMA, 2. aktualizované a doplněné vydání, Grada, 2012, ISBN 978-80-247-4275-5.
IPMA ICB IV.: Individual Competence Baseline for Project, Programme E Portfolio Management version 4.0. Vyd. IPMA, 2015, ISBN 978-94-92338-00-6.
Máchal P., Ondrouchová M., Krunčíková I., Nováková M., Chlupatý P. and Motal M.: Mezinárodní standard projektového řízení IPMA ICB v. 4. Praha, IPMA Czech Republic. Publikace (IPMA). 2017, ISBN 978-80-7326-285-3. 
Pitaš, J. a kol.: Národní standard kompetencí projektového řízení, Společnost pro projektové řízení, o.s., 2012, ISBN 978-80-214-4058-6. 

Recommended reading

Doležal J. a kol.: Projektový management Komplexně, prakticky a podle světových standardů, Grada Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-80-247-5620-2.
Ježková, Z., Krejčí, H., Lacko, B., Švec, J.: Projektové řízení - Jak zvládnout projekty, ACSA, 2014, ISBN 978-80-905297-1-7.
Kerzner, H.: Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 9th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006, ISBN 13 978-0-471-74187-9.
Lacko, B., Švec, J., Balatková, M. a kol. : Specifika technických projektů - Pracovní sešit k Projektové řízení - Jak zvládnout projekty, ACSA, 2014, ISBN 978-80-905297-2-4.
Rosenau, M. D.: Řízení projektů, Computer Press, 2007, 344 s., ISBN 80-7226-218-1.
Svozilová, A.: Projektový management, GRADA Publishing, 2007, ISBN 80-247-1501-5.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-MSC-2 Master's

    branch MBS , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MPV , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MIS , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MIN , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MGM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MBI , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MSK , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MMM , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme MITAI Master's

    specialization NISY , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NSPE , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NBIO , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NSEN , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NVIZ , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NGRI , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NADE , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NISD , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NMAT , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NSEC , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NISY up to 2020/21 , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NCPS , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NHPC , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NNET , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NMAL , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NVER , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NIDE , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NEMB , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
    specialization NEMB up to 2021/22 , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Dušan Kalášek, Ph.D.
Ing. Šárka Květoňová, Ph.D.
doc. RNDr. Jitka Kreslíková, CSc.

Syllabus

  1. Introductory information. Certification in project management. 1.01 Strategy, 1.02 Governance, structures and processes.
  2. 1.03 Compliance, standards and regulations, 1.04 Power and interests, 1.05 Culture and values.
  3. 2.01 Self-reflection and self-management, 2.02 Personal integrity and reliability.
  4. 2.03 Personal communication, 2.04 Relations and engagement, 2.05 Leadership.
  5. 2.06 Teamwork, 2.07 Conflict and crisis, 2.08 Resourcefulness.
  6. 2.09 Negotiation, 2.10 Results orientation.
  7. 3.01 Project design, 3.02 Requirements and objectives.
  8. 3.03 Scope, 3.04 Time.
  9. 3.05 Organisation and information, 3.06 Quality.
  10. 3.07 Finance, 3.08 Resources, 3.09 Procurement.
  11. 3.10 Plan and control, 3.11 Risk and opportunity.
  12. 3.12 Stakeholders, 3.13 Change and transformation.
  13. Final examination.

Fundamentals seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. RNDr. Jitka Kreslíková, CSc.
Mgr. Dušan Kalášek, Ph.D.
Ing. Šárka Květoňová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Get members of teams together. Oneself assessment test. Selection processes of suitable staffers for project (choice of suitable organizational structure).
  2. "ETHICAL CODE" - personal and group ethical code..
  3. "CAULDRON" public performance - under fire off questions will be recorded public performance by camcorder. Simulation of panel discussion and meeting
  4. "PAPER TOWER" - similar like by public performance - under fire off questions will be recorded public performance by camcorder.
  5. Gramophone plate and negative questioning techniques. Dispersonification and problem solving by using meditation and facilitate methods.
  6. Application project management in establishment. Logical framework approach.
  7. Methods of estimating and time scheduling.
  8. Analysis of causes and effects. RASCI Responsibility Matrix.
  9. Decision making about optimal resource of project financing. Net present value.
  10. SWOT analysis. EVM - Earned value management method
  11. Risk analysis. RIPRAN method.
  12. Network chart. Resource levelling.
  13. Final test.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course