The project management course enables students to understand the basics and the challenges of project management activities. Furthermore – based on exercises – the students will achieve a hands-on experience in the field of project planning and project control. Finally, these learnings will be strengthened by the participation in a project game.

By the end of this course, students will be:

• able to understand the interaction of project schedule, project cost and project resources and furthermore the closed-loop control of project controlling.

• able to plan a project and monitor the project status in an efficient way

• improve their capabilities to finish projects in a successful way

Course Topics:

• Introduction and Definition

  • Definition of the term project

  • Magical triangle

  • Project targets

  • Project model

  • Project decision

• Project planning

  • Milestones

  • Milestone Plan

  • Gantt diagram

  • Step-by-Step approach

  • Project planning exercise with ProjectLibre

• Project Execution

  • Project Execution Process

  • Key-Performance-Indicators & Trend Diagram

  • Milestone Trend Analysis

  • KPI Trend Diagram

• Project Control

  • Project monitoring exercise with trend diagrams and project cockpit

Hardware (required): No special requirements

Software: No special requirements

Prerequisites: No special prerequisites (higher education diploma is a plus).

Next Step: Product development with SCRUM, Automotive Quality and Project Management

Course Number: NIT-PM-03

Duration: 1.00 units (~10 live teaching hours, ~20 hours of individual practice and preparation work)