Project Seminar

2023/2024

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

2

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент политологии и международных отношений

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 2 модуль

Преподаватели

Гаете Сепулведа Магдалена Алехандра

Кульбаева Александра Юрьевна

Мурач Анастасия Андреевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course guides students through fundamental project management concepts and behavioral skills needed to success-fully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations. Successful project managers skillfully manage their resources, schedules, risks, and scope to produce a desired outcome. In this course, students explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through case studies and class exercises. A key and often overlooked challenge for project managers is the ability to manage without influence—to gain the support of stakeholders and access to resources not directly under their control. Special attention is given to critical success factors required to overcome resistance to change. We will review causes of project failure and how to mitigate risks through proper planning in the early phases of a new initiative.

Learning Objectives

• To give students a comprehensive overview of the project as a part of education and professional activitiy
• To develop students' skills to organize and participate project activities, including the use of project managament and evaluation methods

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Defines the key elements of a project and project activities
• Draws up a project work plan in accordance with tasks and deadlines
• Defines team roles in a project depending on the type of project
• Uses information systems applications in project management
• Defines the main goals, tasks and stages of the Project Service Learning
• Determines and applies a relevant method of project management, depending on the goals and type of the project
• Uses relevant techniques of project results reporting
• Applies relevant forms of project evaluation and project tem assessment

Course Contents

• Project Management Basics
• Stakeholders and Project Teams
• Project Service Learning
• Methods of Project Management
• Project Results
• Projects Evaluation

Assessment Elements

• Fieldwork
  This is a part of the teamwork, where students need to collect information about possible project. This part is evaluated according to the quantity and quality of the information collected, the use of information resources, as well as the quality of interaction with possible stakeholders.
• Project and Presentation
  The progress of work on the project, the use of collected materials, data analysis, conclusions formulated, project reporting and presentation are assessed

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 2nd module
  0.35 * Fieldwork + 0.65 * Project and Presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Maximini, D. (2018). The Scrum Culture : Introducing Agile Methods in Organizations (Vol. Second edition). Cham: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1741933
• Shankar S., Muller R., Drouin N. Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management, 2017. Режим доступа: http://library.books24x7.com/bookshelf.asp

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Dragan Z. Milosevic, Peerasit Patanakul, & Sabin Srivannaboon. (2010). Case Studies in Project, Program, and Organizational Project Management. Wiley.
• 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.
• Wachs, M. (2018). Bent Flyvbjerg, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017). 600 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN: 9780198732242. Public Administration Review, 78(5), 816–818. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12984