Delivered at:: Department of Venture Management (Nizhny Novgorod) (Faculty of Management (Nizhny Novgorod))

Course type:: Compulsory course

When:: 1 year, 1 module

Instructor

Tsiteladze, David

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Abstract

The discipline "Project Management" is aimed at developing the required amount of fundamental and applied knowledge and skills in students for successful project management. The student's competencies, formed as a result of mastering the discipline, are sufficient to qualitatively perform the functions of a project manager and navigate the practical and scientific literature on the subject of the subject. Project management competencies are formed based on the theoretical part of the program, based on international project management methodologies and the practical part, including work on cases, using IT tools for pre-project analytics and project management from leading Russian vendors. All this together allows the student of the Project Management program to organize the systemic management of projects, programs and project portfolios in organizations of various industries, ownership and sizes.

Learning Objectives

To provide students with the necessary fundamental and applied knowledge and skills for successful project management.
The course aims to provide basic knowledge and develop students' skills in the field of strategic management, in particular, to create, evaluate, analyze, apply, interpret, reproduce:  definitions and concepts of projects, programs and their context, as objects of management;  various approaches to the classification of projects;  processes and management tools for various functional areas of the project;  definitions and concepts of subjects of management;  history and development trends of project management approaches;  methods used in project management.  identify goals, objectives, subject area, stakeholders and project structures;  draw up the charter of the project;  draw up the organizational and technological model of the project;  calculate the project implementation schedule;  qualitatively and quantitatively assess the risks and opportunities of the project;  manage the project team.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Uses Gantt charts and BCF-methodology for managing the project calendar.
 1. Student has skills of drawing up network diagrams of the project without delay.  2. Student is able to define the essence of the critical path method. 
Student has skills to assess the investment attractiveness of the project and to calculate the investment attractiveness of the project using Excel tables.
Student is able to formulate the subject area of the project; uses the combustion diagram of the project objectives. Able to use the method of mastered volume; knows how to use the Ishikawa diagram; knows how to assess the risks of the project; knows how to make changes to the project..

Course Contents

Chapter 1. Standards, methodology, methods and tools for project management
Chapter 2. A systematic approach to project management
Chapter 3. Management of subjects of management and organizational structures
Chapter 4. Stages of project management processes.
Chapter 5. Management of functional areas of the project

Assessment Elements

Active work during the seminars
Solution and presentation of the case
Final test

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 1st module
0.35 * Active work during the seminars + 0.4 * Final test + 0.25 * Solution and presentation of the case

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Hefner, D., & Malcolm, C. (2002). 15 essential steps of IT project management. Healthcare Financial Management: Journal Of The Healthcare Financial Management Association, 56(2), 76–78. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=mdc&AN=11842507
Pace, M. (2019). A Correlational Study on Project Management Methodology and Project Success. Journal of Engineering, Project & Production Management, 9(2), 56–65. https://doi.org/10.2478/jeppm-2019-0007
Project Management Institute. (2021). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Seventh Edition and The Standard for Project Management (ENGLISH): Vol. Seventh edition. Project Management Institute.
Project Management, Textbook, 338 p., Tsiteladze, D. D., 2023

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Project Management Institute Project Management Institute. (2021). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Seventh Edition and The Standard for Project Management (RUSSIAN): Vol. Седьмое издание. Project Management Institute.

Authors

Попова Екатерина Петровна
TSITELADZE DAVID DZHEMALOVICH
Белохлебова Наталья Александровна

Master’s Programme 'Business Development'

Contacts

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