At the end of this course
- students can explain elementary project management terms and common approaches of modern project management.
- students will be able to describe important project management tasks and clarify processes and interrelationships.
- students will be able to apply selected methods and techniques of project management.
- students will be able to analyze project situations and derive recommendations for action. Furthermore, the students' personality development will be promoted, especially the ability for critical self-reflection as well as social commitment.
At the beginning of the course, an introduction to project management is given and important conceptual basics are explained. Subsequently, different types of projects are considered and different project management approaches are discussed. Afterwards, selected methods and techniques for typical project phases are presented, discussed and applied to concrete tasks and project situations.
Agenda:
- Introduction and basics of project management
(Motivation, characteristic features of projects, definition of terms, overview of different project management approaches) - Classical project management
(Characteristic features and selection of typical process models, selected methods and techniques for initialization, definition, planning, control and completion of projects as well as the processing of continuous tasks) - Agile project management
(Agile manifesto and agile values, comparison with classic project management, Scrum, Kanban) -
Hybrid
project management
(Definition of terms, various options for combining classic and agile process models, procedure for selection, integration and company-specific adaptation)
- Trainer/in: Jarz, Ewald