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 sustainable and ethical challenges and 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
- Sustainable project management
The course consists of lectures and discussions on cases.
Continuous assessment will no longer exist as an examination form from autumn 2023. For questions regarding previous results, contact InfoHub.
It is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.
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 specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
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Exam category: Activity, Oral Form of assessment: Presentation Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 30 Grouping: Group (3 - 4) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Presentation in class Exam code: GRA 24162 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 70 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Term paper Exam code: GRA 24163 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this 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.