PA180 Interim Project

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0/16. 15 credit(s) (from 5 credits increase by 1). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Alternate Types of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Zdenko Staníček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vladimír Dosoudil (seminar tutor)
Supervisor
prof. RNDr. Václav Matyáš, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications - Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Zdenko Staníček, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
( PV203 IT Services Management && PA181 Services - SME && PA116 Domain Modeling && PV207 Business Process Management && PA179 Project Management ) || SOUHLAS
PV203 and PA181 and PA116 and PV207 and PA179.
Course Enrollment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Fields of study the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to work on a junior level position in a service oriented company.
Syllabus
  • Business oriented or more research oriented alternative can be chosen. It involves 5 months full time work/research in a business partner company operating in Service Science Management and Engineering field. According to faculty guarantor and business partner guarantor the student creates a technical report on the project.
  • The student is obliged to obtain all 15 credits from one partner. In case of change of the partner for the project the credits from the previous partner are not taken into account except the situation the faculty guarantor together with the guarantor of the new partner make an explicit decision that it is possible to take previous credits into account.
  • Student has a possibility to choose a business partner from a set of partners contracted by faculty for interim project accomplishment.
  • The 15 ECTS could be obtained by several ways: (1) during one semester, i.e. 5 month, (recommended) work by chosen business partner 4 days in a week (with one day for technical report writing and consultations with faulty guarantor), or (2) cumulative earning of the 15 ECTS in two or three semesters (three is maximum); the work for partner is then 2 or 3 days per week.
  • The regime is prescribed by the contract with particular partner and is chosen for benefit of both, the student and the partner.
  • Students will work on real customer projects or research projects obligatory connected with SSME.
  • Regular meetings on project progress have to be held by at least three persons: the student, the faculty guarantor, the business partner guarantor, and possibly a project or sub-project manager from the partner organization.
  • The project ends with student's public presentation of his/her results on faculty seminar.
  • Results of the project must be used in a way in student's master thesis.
Literature
  • Humpolíček, Pavel - Uhrová, Alena. Desatero pro praxi - aneb jak využít povinnost.
Teaching methods
Internship within a business partner organization. Work on real-life projects with service orientation. Comparation of learned theory with practice. Feedback elaboration.
Assessment methods
A technical report on the project and a public presentation of results on a faculty seminar is required to obtain the colloquium.
Language in which the course is taught
English
Further comments (probably available only v češtině)
Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: (A) business: set completion type: colloquium, set credit value: 15 ECTS. (B) research - 1st semester: set completion type: credit, set credit value: 8 ECTS. (C) research - 2nd semester: set completion type: colloquium, set credit value: 7 ECTS.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
Credit evaluation note: (A) business: set completion type: colloquium, set credit value: 15 ECTS. (B) research - 1st semester: set completion type: credit, set credit value: 8 ECTS. (C) research - 2nd semester: set completion type: colloquium, set credit value: 7 ECTS.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/admission/master/aplinfo/ssme/interim_project.xhtml
The student is obliged to follow the Cooperation Terms (in English / in Czech).
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014.
  • Enrollment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/autumn2009/PA180

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