GRA 2416 Project Management
GRA 2416 Project Management
The course starts with an introduction to project management. The students will be given an understanding of what a project is and a foundation for planning, organizing and controlling projects. The course will further give an understanding of the problems of project work and will by the help of theory and practical examples show how to manage a project to achieve the goals.
- The students understand the role of projects in developing a private or public organization.
- The students are familiar with project management language, processes, techniques and methods.
- The students have knowledge about how to start-up, plan, organize, manage risk, manage stakeholders, follow-up, and terminate a project.
- The students are able to use several project management tools and techniques, for example: milestone planning, network planning, risk analysis and stakeholder analysis.
- The students are able to take an active part in projects.
- The students develop presentation skills by giving student-presentations in class.
- The students are able to reflect about the ethical problems associated with the organization of projects.
- The students are able to understand how it is to participate in a project team and show respect to other team members’ knowledge, opinions, roles and personality.
- Project characteristics
- Project selection
- Project success criteria
- Project management
- Project planning
- Project control
- Risk management
- Conflict management
- Project organization
- Stakeholder management and project relations
- Project portfolio
- Contract administration
- Benefit realization
- Culture and international projects
The course consists of lectures and discussions on cases.
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.
This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component is graded by using points on a scale from 0-100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the examination code (course). Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam elements will get a lower grade or may fail the course. You will find detailed information about the point system and the cut off points with reference to the letter grades when the course starts.
At resit, all exam components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have spesific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.
Teaching
Information about what is taught on campus and other digital forms will be presented with the lecture plan before the start of the course each semester.
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Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Presentation Weight: 40 Grouping: Group (3 - 4) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Presentation in class Exam code: GRA24161 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Term paper Exam code: GRA24161 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.