Course detail
Advanced Project Management Techniques
FP-IapmtKAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course follows basic master´s degree courses in the area of management, IT/ICT and managerial decision-making. The course focuses on explaining the basic theoretical concepts related to the selected techniques, methods and tools of project management and its practical application. The selection of techniques, methods and tools reflects new trends in project management.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The graded assessment has a written form. The condition for granting of graded assessment is processing of semester project until deadline and passing the credit test. The mark corresponds to the total sum of points achieved by credit test and project (semester work). The grades and corresponding points:
A: 100 – 90 points
B: 89 – 80 points
C: 79 – 70 points
D: 69 – 60 points
E: 59 – 50 points
F: 49 – 0 points
Aims
Students will be able to independently model concrete projects in all its basic aspects (time, resources, costs), and to consider these aspects in logical context. They will be able to recommend suitable techniques, methods and software tools to support project planning and management, including the possibility of using special software for modelling and simulation of selected project processes.
Study aids
See Course literature.
Study materials available on e-learning.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
BERKUN, S. Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management. 1. edition. Published by O’Reilly Media, 2008. ISBN: 978-0596517717. (EN)
HERMARIJ, J. Better Practices of Project Management Based on IPMA-C and IPMA-D. 2.edition. Published by van Haren Publishing. 2010. ISBN 978-9087536473. (EN)
ISHIZAKA, A., NEMERY, P. Multi-criteria decision analysis: methods and software. Chichester: John Wiley, 2013. ISBN 978-1-119-97407-9. (EN)
LESTER, A. Project Management, Planning and Control: Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards. 6th Edition, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013. ISBN 9780080983240. (EN)
RUBIN, Kenneth S. Essential Scrum: a practical guide to the most popular agile process. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2012. ISBN 9780137043293. (EN)
ŠOCHOVÁ, Z. The great scrummaster: #scrummasterway. Boston: Addison-Wesley. Addison-Wesley signature series, 2017. ISBN 978-0134657110. (EN)
Recommended reading
LAWRENCE P. L. Critical Chain Project Management. Third edition. Norwood, United States: Artech House Publishers, 2014. ISBN-13 9781608077342.
SCHWALBE, K. Information Technology Project Management, Eight Edition. Cengage Learning, 2015. ISBN-13 978-1285452340.
YADAV, S.R., MALIK, A.K. Operations Research. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-809618-4.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-IM-KS Master's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Mathematical and formalization apparatus for project modelling.
- Alternative methods of project scheduling.
- Decision analysis in project management.
- Fuzzy modelling in project management.
- Project management software support.
- New trends in project management: new approaches in project management.
- Project manager in the era of industry 4.0 and digitization.
- Prince 2 methodology - basic principles of the methodology.
- PRINCE2 Agile - basic principle of the methodology and its implementation into the company.
- Agile transformation.