Curso de Project Management (Gestión de Proyectos)

Presentation:

This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to  develop specific aspects to successfully manage projects.  

In this course, students will learn  how to identify and to define projects . Students will discover the relevance of scope management both from a theoretical and a practical perspective, through the completion of some specific assignments. 

In particular, this course will deal with project time management through project control strategies and with all other project management areas according to the standards of the Project Management Institute (PMI) (PMBoK standard). The course will not cover agile techniques or any other critical chain philosophy. 

Learning Outcomes:

Regarding the cognitive domain, and with emphasis in knowledge and analysis it is expected that students will be able to: 

• Acquire basic concepts about structured project management. 

• Formulate a WBS approach and project’s time management. 

• Analyze and organize project control and tracking strategies. 

Regarding the cognitive domain but with emphasis into the application domain, it is expected that students will be able to: 

• Produce a project plan. 

• Evaluate and assess risk management in a case study. 

• Write a summary of main reflections produced during the experience 

Course contents:

The structure of this course is focused on a U learning model.

The course starts and ends with one broad view unit.

In this sense, the first unit presents and attempts to make sense of project management while the last unit describes project management integration as a whole, since it is responsible for global integration of all other specialized areas that will be described one per one from unit 2 through unit 9.

The first section includes the first five units which are mostly engaged with all relevant areas during project building especially at the beginning of it.

The second section that includes units from 6 to 10 deals with project management areas which have a strong implication during project development.

SECTION ONE
UNIT 1 The Project Management Framework
UNIT 2 Project Scope Management
UNIT 3 Project Time Management
UNIT 4 Project Cost Management
UNIT 5 Project Quality Management

SECTION TWO
UNIT 6 PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
UNIT 7 PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT
UNIT 8 PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT
UNIT 9 PROJECT PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT
UNIT 10 PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT.

Academic Calendar:

Curso cuatrimestral. (Octubre-Febrero)
El curso se desarrolla en el primer cuatrimestre.

University credits:

Le corresponden 3 créditos ECTS.

Lecturer / Assistant Professor
ORDIERES MERE, JOAQUIN
Catedrático de Proyectos de Ingeniería. Director de Proyectos Profesional por el PMI (PMP). Director de Proyectos Profesional por el IPMA (IPMA-B). Beca de estancia corta en el INRIA francés en 1984. Premio extraordinario de licenciatura en 1985. Miembro del grupo de expertos T4 de la CEE (1998 a 2000). Ponente del PN de I+D 2000/2003, representado a la CAR. Referee de 33 trabajos para 11 revistas internacionales. Director de 15 tesis doctorales y 19 DEA. Autor/Coautor de 20 libros. Autor de artículos científicos. Autor de comunicaciones a congreso, la mayoría relacionados con I. de Proyectos. Autor de 11 patentes. Investigador en contratos de transferencia de resultados de Investigación e Investigador en proyectos de I+D subvencionada. Representante español en el comité de seguimiento de proyectos TSG8 de la UE.

Course Methodology:

The course provides a learning methodology that enables students to put into practice their knowledge in a practical way throughout their individual assignments.

These tasks are based on their knowledge building which highly depend on a discrete sequential decision-making process.

In the first assignment students will develop project scope, time scheduling and cost estimation for one particular project provided to them.

In the second assignment, students are expected to provide further analysis and produce a synthetical view of the final project they are developing, by doing some research on particular details of the project together with the identification of all active strategies required, also discussing other available options.

Online student assessment will be done in two different ways:

• Through forum participation and teamwork discussion.
• Through two individual assignments.

As for the assessment procedure, students’ work will be assessed on an individual basis although teamwork will sometimes be required.

Assessment:

Revision exercises: The revision exercises are designed to allow students to self-assess their own learning progress at the beginning of each unit.
Control Tests: A control test is designed to grade students in the middle of their learning process and can act as a guide for the final exam.
Practice tests.
Non-distant final exam. The final paper lasts for one hour at the end of the term. Students are allowed to use study materials during this exam. There are two possible exams per course: in June and September and students can freely choose to take any of them. A grade of Pass is required to obtain the corresponding credits of each course.

Documentation:

- Documentación en Formato Digital
- Título: A Guide to proyect Managemente Body of Knowledge (PMBOK-Guide)

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