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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Project Management Principles

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 157-0308/05
Abbreviation PPŘ
Course title Project Management Principles
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics
Course coordinator Ing. Jitka Baňařová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The principles and philosophy of project management as a management tool. Basictools and techniques of project management.
1) The role of project management in the current management
The basic philosophy and principles of project management.
Project definition of the concept of project management.
Differences between the project and routine procedure.
The concept of management in keeping with project management
2) use of project portfolio management
Portfolio use professional project management
3) the project cycle, the structure of the project cycle
Characteristics of different stages of the project cycle.
Typology of methods and tools that support project management.
Tools and methods supporting different phases of the project life cycle.
4) Practical introduction to the application by the Microsoft Project 2007
Techniques for Project Management - Time management, cost, quality, risk
5) MS Project - creation of tasks, links, outline
6) MS Project - resource settings, assignment, sharing
7) MS Project - Cost
8) MS Project - advanced techniques
9) MS Project - to view, print, report
10) MS Project - project tracking
11) Documentation Project - Closing a Project
12) People and their roles in project management. Organizational structure in project management. - The human factor of project management

Literature

KERZNER, Harold. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. 10th ed. - Hoboken : Wiley, 2009. 1094 p. ISBN 978-0-470-27870-3.
RICHARDSON, Gary. Project management : theory and practice. CRC Press, 2010. 550 p. ISBN 978-1-4398-0993-8.

Advised literature

CHATFIELD, Carl. Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step. Microsoft Press, 2010. 512 p. ISBN 978-0735626959 .
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (Corporate Author). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Project Management Inst., 2008. 459 p. ISBN 978-1933890517.