Office automation tools and Internet
Students of this subject acquire knowledge and develop the following skills:
1. Learn basic concepts of the Technological Project Management. The Study Guides from the virtual campus will be used.
2. Define, through Group Work, a Technological Project divided in Phases and Stages with the Basic Activities and necessary Resources for its execution. Know how to apply this knowledge into practice. Techniques and methodologies of the virtual campus will be used: doubts forums, mail, etc.
3. Acquire the analysis and synthesis ability in the subject´s study objects.
4. Learn to present Projects in order to get the proposal´s approval about its Definition, Planning, Execution, Control, Completion and Closing.
5. Understand the different Techniques to manage Technological Projects within a specific Term and Cost, with an adequate Planning and Quality Control of the Project and the Project obtained with it.
6. Develop the abilities to organize and plan the Projects during their Life Cycle.
The Subject has 4 parts which table content is the following:
TECHNOLOGICAL PROJECTS CONTOL.
1. PROJECTS AND IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY
1. Projects
3. Technologies Implementation Methodologies
2. ORGANIZATION AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
1. Project´s organization
2. Project´s chief and Work Groups
3. Resources management
3. PLANNING AND CONTROL
1. Project´s Management Processes
2. Project´s Life Cycle
3. Product´s Life Cycle
4. Project´s Planning and Control
5. Necessities and Requirements
6. Project´s planning
7. Project´s risks management
8. Project´s control and monitoring
9. Tools and Techniques
4. EXECUTION, DOCUMENTATION AND TOOLS
1. Contracting Products and Services
2. Project´s Recovering and Finishing
3. Project´s Documentation
4. Management Tools and Project´s Documentation
5. Trends in Project´s Management
The subject includes theoretical and practical classes to reinforce the exposed concepts in both formats, on-campus and blended.
The students are divided in groups of 5 to 7 students to work in the Definition of a Project within a chosen company and define by them with the professor´s help.
In the theoretical classes, lectures are taught using slides, and there are also virtual sessions by means of the Study Guide. The professor´s practical experience in managing projects in companies is transmitted. Students must complete at home: Individual Works and bibliographic exercises using boos and Internet. Every work must be sent to the virtual campus to be review, corrected and evaluated by the professor.
Practical sessions are for students to work on their Group Works that they must finish them outside classes, and for presentations of the Groups Works. The practical sessions are supervised by the subject´s professor, for both, on-campus students and blended students during their on-site sessions.
The Group Works are handed in parts, first students hand in a draft that the professor check, evaluate and return to the group with the commentaries to help them to improve their definitive works. The objective is that students do a group work about the Definition of a Project executed by them as perfect as possible so they can use it later in their professional life. Students also learn from other Group Works during the presentations in class and analyzing the work done by each team.
The methods used to evaluate the subject are:
A. Exams
D. Works done at home
F. Reports/group work
I. Presentations
J. Participation in class
There is a mid-term exam that allows liberating some of the theoretical contents.
All the Group Works are prepared and done during the class Workshops. Students must attend to at least 80% of the Group Work Sessions. Students that can´t attend the 80% of these sessions will have to do an Individual Work previously agreed with the professor and which grade will be equivalent to the Practice grade.
Theory
Each of the Subject´s Chapters has an independent partial grade used to obtain the Theory Grade.
Group Works, Workshops and Presentations
Practices: Group Works and Individual Works should been handed in before the exam of each Chapter because they are a pre-requirement to take the exams.
Practice assessment = (PRA*0.2+PRB*0.2+PRC*0.4+PRD*0.1+ PRD*0.1)*(1 - (NF/(0,8*NS))), or and agreed individual Work. If they are handed in after the due date, the maximum grade will be 5,0.
-NF = Number of Absences of each student to the Workshops TG
- NS = Number of the Workshop sessions of TG
Student´s Participation
In order to increase the student´s participation and to achieve a personalized learning, the student´s participation will be valued by means of:
- Exercises and Individual Works:
ETI = Average of EVERY Exercise and Individual Work
- Optional Key Questions done by each Student:
PC = Grade of the Key Questions
Participation = ETI*0,6 + PC*0,4
FINAL GRADE
- If the Theory is >=3,5 Final = Theory*0.4 + Practices*0.4 + Participation*0.2
- If the Theory is<3,5 Final = Theory
Objective 1:
-Students must demonstrate that they know the basic concepts of the Technological Project Management.
Objective 2:
-Students must carry out through a Group Work a Technological Project divided in Phases and Stages with the Basic Activities and necessary Resources for its execution. Know how to apply this knowledge into practice. [D, F, I].
-Students should use the virtual campus to hand in their drafts and their definitive works, such as to solve their doubts. [D, F, I].
Objective 3:
- Students must acquire the analysis and synthesis ability in the subject´s study objects. [D, F, I].
Objective 4:
- Students must learn to present Projects in order to get the proposal´s approval about its Definition, Planning, Execution, Control, Completion and Closing. [D, I].
Objective 5:
- Students must understand the different Techniques to manage Technological Projects within a specific Term and Cost, with an adequate Planning and Quality Control of the Project and the Project obtained with it. [D, F, I, J].
Objective 6:
- Students must develop the abilities to organize and plan the Projects during their Life Cycle. [D, F, I].
Apuntes de Gestió de Projectes del curs 10-11. Diego Jódar
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