Degree in International Computer Engineering La Salle Campus Barcelona

Degree in International Computer Engineering

La Salle Degree s in Computer Engineering, is the only Degree program in Barcelona which equips you with the skills and knowledge needed to meet the new international demands of the computer engineering sector and of the global business world.

Project Management

Description
The subject of Project Management provides a practical vision of the profession of the Project Manager, showing the Concepts, the Basic Tools and Techniques for the Planning and Tracking of Projects, as well as the Skills and Abilities required in this profession. On completion of the course, the students must present a Project Charter, a WBS, a Schedule, a Budget and have a grounding in Risk Planning, Communication, Quality and know how to Track and Close a project.
Type Subject
Tercer - Obligatoria
Semester
First
Course
4
Credits
3.00

Titular Professors

Objectives

The subject provides students with the following learning outcomes (the degree courses on which they appear are provided in brackets)
Use of project methodology to optimize efficiency in the management process (GC, GK, GS, GT, GM, GI)

- Knowledge of Project Management (GC, GK, GS, GT, GI)

- Domain of Project Management (GM)
- Domain of the group work to implement the concepts of Project Management in real projects (TG))
- - Ability to apply Project Management knowledge to both small and large companies (TG).

Contents

1. Introduction to PM
- Project life cycle
- The role of the Project Manager
2. Project launch
- The project charter
- Function analysis and system analysis
3. Project planning
- The project management plan
- Project scope (PBS and WBS)
- Networking the activities in their logical sequence - Critical Path, PERT
- Developing the schedule - Critical Path, GANTT
- Risk management plan - RBS
- Cost management plan
- Change management plan
- Quality plan

4. Project execution
- Project kick-off
5. Project monitoring
- Measuring and controlling project progress
- Dealing with change
6. Project closure
- Project closure
- Project closure report

Methodology

- Learning by doing
- The students see how they become involved in a real Project.
- As the Project develops, the students obtain the information required to carry out the tasks.
- Each task has its own content, which means that students have access to all the information needed on the online platform.
-The classes are groupwork sessions and round table discussions with the professors/mentors.

Evaluation

- Class presentation on the concepts and procedures associated with the module, using the methods applied in the lesson.
- Lab work
- Individual practical lab work
- Individual study and Project work
- Assessment activities

Evaluation Criteria

- Group work: 70%
- Individual work: 30% (Individual exams: 30% / Individual presentations: 70%)

Students must pass each of the different parts of the course, namely, Group work and individual work, independently and with a mark of 5.0 or higher.

Basic Bibliography

Recommended books:
- A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – Project Management Institute – www.pmi.org
- Project Management A systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling – H. Kerzner