Project Management

• 26 hrs lectures
• 6 hrs pc labs
• 20 hrs projects

Student will be able: to develop project management plans, to identify monitor and control mechanisms for IT projects, to allocate and re-allocate project resources. Student will understand the relationships between process management and project management. Student will become acquainted with the project and product process assessments and will be able to understand processes improvement techniques.

To get view about principles, purpose, role and other aspects of process management in IT projects. To understand relation of process management to project management and to Total Quality Management. To create definite conception about the needs of successful project management. To be come acquainted with software product metrics. To be come acquainted with basic standards and norms of project management. To be come acquainted with the methods of measurement quality process, with techniques of process management implementation and with the basic standards and norms of process management.

There are no prerequisites

• Kerzner, H.: Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 9th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006, ISBN 13 978-0-471-74187-9.
• Rosenau, M.D.: Řízení projektů, Computer Press, 2003, 344 s., ISBN 80-7226-218-1.
• Dyba, T.: Process Improvement in Practice: A Handbook for IT Companies Kluwer Academic, 2004, 113 p., ISBN 1-4020-7869-2.
• Rosemann, M.: Process Management, Springer - Verlag, 2003, 337 s., ISBN 3-540-43499-2.

• Goldratt, E.M.: Kritický řetěz, AFNOR, 2002, 265 s., ISBN 2-1246-5613-9.
• Dyba, T.: Process Improvement in Practice: A Handbook for IT Companies. Kluwer Academic, 2004, 113 s., ISBN 1-4020-7869-2.
• Hallows, J.: Information Systems Project Management, AMACON, 2005, 288 s., ISBN 0-8144-7273-7.
• Munson, C.: Software Engineering Measurement, AUERBACH PUBLICATION, 2003, 443 p., ISBN 0-8493-1503-4.
• Smejkal, V., Rais, K.: Řízení rizik ve firmách a jiných organizacích, Grada Publishing, 2006, ISBN 80-247-1667-4.
• Schulte, P.: Complex IT Project Management, AUERBACH PUBLICATION, 2004, 314 s., ISBN 0-8493-1932-3. 

1. Introduction. The project management framework. The project management knowledge areas. Processes of project management.
2. Using principles of process approach to project management.
3. Project definition process.
4. Project planning processes.
5. Project organization processes.
6. Project execute processes.
7. Project control processes.
8. Project closure process.
9. Quality and efficiency process measurement.
10. Principles of process improvement.
11. Methods and progress in project management. Critical chain scheduling.
12. Norms and the current standards in project and process management.
13. Project and process management software support.

1. Introduction to MS Project.
2. Introduction to Rational Unified Process.

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Assessment of two evaluated home assignments and mid-term test. Continuous checking of the project solution by the supervisor.