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Project Management - Processes, Activities and Practices
Are you facing the challenge of planning, implementing, and monitoring complex, interdisciplinary tasks in your company? Do you need a suitable monitoring concept for your projects? Or are you coordinating work in project teams while taking on the requirements and responsibilities of a project manager?
Do you need an effective framework for executing your projects? Are you managing project teams that may be spread across multiple locations? Are you taking on leadership roles within a project or full responsibility for project success, both towards the client and your company?
In the module Project Management – Processes, Activities, and Practices, you will learn techniques and processes based on best practices from the project management community and apply them in practical examples. You will gain insights into the challenges of project management and learn to assess measures in areas such as risk and opportunity management or quality management, enabling you to make well-informed decisions to ensure project success. With the expertise gained in this course, you will be well prepared to take full responsibility for a project.
Course overview in video:
The Description of the module you find at the Module Handbooks:
Module Handbook Sensor Systems Engineering
Module Handbook Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Connected Systems
- Ethics and Compliance.
- Motivation, concept formation and basic elements of project management.
- Business case and project selection criteria.
- Project environment within an organization.
- The role of the project manager in the company.
- Project phases: initiate, plan, execute, monitor and close.
- Scenarios and exercises to enhance knowledge transfer for selected topics
- Knowledge Areas:
- Stakeholder Management,
- Integration Management,
- Scope management,
- Scheduling Management,
- Cost Management,
- Quality Management,
- Resource management,
- Communication Management,
- Risk Management,
- Procurement Management.
Students who have successfully completed this module
- are familiar with the basics of operational project management.
- can independently plan, realize, monitor and control complex interdisciplinary tasks.
- are familiar with the various organizational forms of project management, thecoordination of work in project teams, and the requirements and tasks of aproject manager.
- are proficient in the basic planning techniques of project management
- are able to use different methods for planning, controlling and monitoringprocesses based on network planning technology.
- know the challenges of project management by means of practical examples.
Online-learning takes place as self-study units as well as group work. For structuring the self-study-part there are provided videos that illustrate the contents and an elaborated script. The script is developed especially for students that work full-time while studying, according to the didactic concept of Ulm University. The script contains learning stopps, multiple and single choice tests, quizzes, exercises, etc.
Your mentor will offer online seminars in periodic intervals. These seminars will help you handling the exercises and working on the learning matters. An online forum for exchange with the other students will also be available.
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After finishing your exam successfully you will get a certificate and a supplement, which will list the contents of the module and the competencies you have acquired. The supplement confirms you the equivalent of 6 credit points (ECTS).
Lecturer
Dr. Volker Kraus
The Lecturer ist PMI® - certified
