Overview
Key facts
During the Project Management - Term 2 course at the European Summer School all participants will get hands on experience in managing complex projects by creating and managing them by using various online tools.
You are going to prepare a formal project plan and business case of a selected project. In addition, participants will get hands on experience on managing agile projects by creating and managing an agile project using Visual Studio online. We will illustrate our cases by real examples that you might get across while participating in an international project.
Course Goals and Objectives
This course provides an integrated introduction to PM. By “integrated”, it is meant that the student will learn all of the fundamental aspects of modern PM, both managerial and technical. Students will also become familiar with some PM software tools. Finally, in discussions and cases students will learn how to apply the skills required of a project manager.
This course will:
- Provide experience in using the concepts, techniques, and tools available to project managers for organizing, planning, and controlling projects.
- Help you develop an appreciation for the managerial, cultural, and social aspects of PM.
- Raise awareness of the importance of the organization’s strategy during project selection.
- Provide an understanding of the critical role of work breakdown structures and networks in planning, scheduling, and estimating the status of projects.
- Create an awareness of potential conflicts and scheduling problems that occur on projects.
- Demonstrate how to reliably estimate the status of projects.
Expose you to MS Project, and demonstrate it usefulness for planning and scheduling projects.
In pursuing these objectives, the course will:
- Use the textbook
- Combine theory and practice
- Combine the strategic with the tactical
- Use relevant concepts to analyze and assess complex project management situations
Programme Structure
Course outline
- Day 1 – Projects and the Project Manager, project environment
- Day 2 – Charter, scope
- Day 3 – The WBS, cost estimation
- Day 4 – Stakeholder engagement and communications, The network and the critical path
- Day 5 – Automation tools for network and critical path analysis, Earned Value Management
- Day 6 - Risk analysis, quality
- Day 7 - Procurement, ethics
- Day 8 – New tools, own project
- Day 9 - Status Project, own project
- Day 10 – Presentation of students’ final projects, Presentation of lessons learned
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 10 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
Credits
You will receive an official Certificate of Attendance upon completion of your course which you may use to show evidence of the skills you have learnt during the course and have the credits accepted by your home university.
Delivered
Disciplines
Project Management Business Administration Management Studies View 3 other Short Courses in Management Studies in Czech RepublicAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
Prerequisites
- Considering working as a Project Manager or improving your project management skills to the next level.
Tuition Fee
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International
950 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 950 EUR for the full programme during 10 days. -
EU/EEA
950 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 950 EUR for the full programme during 10 days.
Living costs for Prague
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.