FI:PA179 Project Management - Course Information
PA179 Project Management and Service Lifecycle
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Jaroslav Ráček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jitka Kitner (assistant)
Mgr. Silvie Petrová (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Vlastislav Dohnal, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Jaroslav Ráček, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–11:50 G123
- Prerequisites
- No pre-requisities.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 36 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Project, Program, and Portfolio management according to international standards as a base for service systems creation, operating, and development. Service system approach to the project, program, and portfolio management.
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
distinquish between good and poor project management practice;
understand what service is, what service system is, modeling of services, execution of services, evolution of services, involved agents education;
use the principles of the theory of constraints (TOC) in practice;
formulate value proposition of a service system;
understand context dependent modeling and its role in service system, modeling, and execution. - Syllabus
- Project, Program, Portfolio (PPP) management definition according to international standards.
- PPP management techniques and procedures; The context of project, program and portfolio of projects, namely the relations to permanent organization; Behavioral competences for PPP management.
- Service definition and service system explication. Value propositions.
- PPP management as a necessary precondition of service system development and operating.
- What is an effective IT support of both, PPP management and service system lifecycle.
- How PPP management and service system lifecycle can help to create an effective IT support of business in a particular domain.
- TOC – Theory of Constraints, Critical Chain, and management of projects with floating objectives.
- How to deal with project priorities within a service system development and operation. Synergy of projects within a program.
- Knowledge management and PPP management in a service system lifecycle. Management of service using time cycles.
- Organizing agents cooperating towards value co-creation in a dynamic environment of service system.
- Literature
- IPMA Competence Baseline, v3, International Project Management Association, 2007
- Turner, J. R., Simister, S. J.: Gower Handbook of Project Management. Gower Publishing, 3rd edn, 2000
- Leach P. L.: Critical Chain Project Management, Artech House, 2005. ISBN: 1580539033
- Stanicek: SSME* - Service Systems, Modeling, Execution, Education. To appear
- Noreen, Eric: The Theory of Constraints and its Implications for Management Accounting, North River Pr, June 1995. ISBN: 978-0-884-27116-1
- Teaching methods
- lectures, class discussion, group projects, presentations, homeworks, reading
- Assessment methods
- A seminar work is required to the exam consisting in several assignments (case study, IPMA Competences Baseline presentation, strategy and value proposition, essay).
The exam can consist from written part and discussion on learned topics with respect to seminar work. - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- SA100 Internship - Management
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- SA100 Internship - Management
- Teacher's information
- http://ssme.fi.muni.cz/student/studium
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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