Project Management

Through work with the literature and tasks in the course, the students will achieve competence to lead projects on development, research and learning purposes.

Contents:

• Project as organisation – project versus line
• Characteristics of projects for development, research, and learning
• Long term or short term, global or local projects
• Leadership and management
• Authority and democracy
• Tradition and transcendence
• Activity and structure
• Overview over techniques and methods for estimation, diagrams, risk, planning and reporting

Case

The course is organised around a case that will be evolving and unfolding during the course. The students will act as project management consultants.

The task of acting as a project management consultant mentioned under ”work methods” is mandatory and will be the basis for the course evaluation. 

Literature

Andersen, E. S. , Grude, K. V. og Haug, T. (2004). Goal directed project management: effective techniques and strategies London: Kogan Page ISBN: 0-7494-4186-0 247 s 

http://www.euromissinc.com/books/Goal_Directed_Project_Management.pdf 

Erling og Jessen, Svein Arne ( 2002 ) Project maturity in organisations,  Norwegian School of Management BI


Forsyth, Donelson R (2010). Group Dynamics - fifth edition. USA ; Wadsworth - Cengage Learning


Levi, Daniel. (2011). Group Dynamics for teams - Third Edition. USA ; Sage Publications. http://books.google.no/books?id=9ZjmUk9CYIoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false  


Boehm, 1988. A Spiral Model of Software Development   

Boehm, 1989 Theory-W Software Project Management: Principles and Examples

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