Course details

Information Systems Project Management

IRP Acad. year 2012/2013 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Basic conception of project management. Traditional project management methodologies. Principles, tools and techniques of project management. Project leadership. Defining the project. Planning, monitoring and controlling mechanisms and techniques for leadership and team building. Quality assurance and assessment of project products. Project management software support.

Guarantor

Kreslíková Jitka, doc. RNDr., CSc. (DIFS)

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 4 hrs exercises
  • 2 hrs pc labs
  • 20 hrs projects

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Student will be able to develop project management plans including risk analysis and migration plans, to identify monitoring and controlling mechanisms for IS projects, to describe how to allocate and re-allocate project resources, both for the target system and the development organisation, to track the schedule and budget to both quality and productivity. Student will understand the relationships among quality assurance, configuration management and project documentation. Student overrule project and product process assessments.assurance, configuration management and project documentation, to understand project and product process assessments.

Student will sample the role and skills essential for effective Project Management. Student will learn how to co-operate in project team (up to 10 members/per team).

Learning objectives

To get view about purpose, role and all aspects of information system project management. To acquaint with detailed identification of basic techniques of project management and to practise these techniques by models occurrence with using of supportive tools. To create of definite conception about needs successful information systems of project management.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The knowledge in the area of complex software system development. The knowledge of software development stages and models of software life-time. The ability to analyse of the requirements and the software system design.

Study literature

  • Kališ J., Říha M.: Microsoft Office Project, Kompletní průvodce pro verze 2007 a 2003, Computer Press, 2008, ISBN 978-80-251-1931-0.
  • Svozilová, A.: Projektový management, GRADA Publishing, 2007, ISBN 80-247-1501-5.
  • Němec, V.: Projektový management, GRADA Publishing, a.s., 2007, ISBN 80-247-0392-0.
  • Rosenau M. D.: Řízení projektů, Computer Press, 2003, ISBN 80-7226-218-1.

Fundamental literature

  • A Guide To The Project Management Body Of Knowledge, Fourth Edition, Project Management Institute, 2008, ISBN 978-1-933890-51-7.
  • Schwalbe, K.: Řízení projektů v IT, Computer Press, 2007, ISBN 978-80-251-1526-8.
  • Kerzner, H.: Project Management A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006, ISBN 13 978-0-471-74187-9.
  • Pitaš, J. a kol.: Národní standard kompetencí projektového řízení, Společnost pro projektové řízení, o.s., 2008, ISBN 978-80-214-3665-7.
  • Doležal J., Máchal P., Lacko B. a kol.: Projektový management podle IPMA, Grada, 2009, ISBN 978-80-247-2848-3.
  • Schulte, P.: Complex IT Project Management, AUERBACH PUBLICATION, 2004, ISBN 0849319323. Hallows J. Information Systems Project Management, 1998.
  • Rašovský M.: Operační analýza a modelování, skriptum MZU Brno, 1998.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Introduction. The project management framework.
  2. The project management knowledge areas.
  3. Project definition.
  4. Project scope management.
  5. Project time management.
  6. Project human resource management.
  7. Project communication management.
  8. Project cost management.
  9. Project risk management. Project quality management.
  10. Project procurement management.
  11. Project integration management. Project closure.
  12. Methods and proceedings used in project management.
  13. Project management software support.

Syllabus of numerical exercises

  1. Introduce to MS Project software.
  2. Estimate costs, determine budget and control costs of project.

Syllabus of computer exercises

  1. Team project plan developing in MS Project software.

Progress assessment

Student has to hand both home assignments, attend at computer practice, to hand project (to get minimum of 1 point for all home assignments, computer excercise and project) and has to get at least 20 of the points from the home assignments, computer excercise and project.

Controlled instruction

Two evaluated home assignments. Checked attendance at computer practice. Evaluated team project with defence. Final written examination.

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