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1. COURSE OBJECTIVES
Project Management course aims to introduce students to the world of projects and to projects’ real-life struggles and challenges. The course will focus on the day to day, hands on problems of managing a project, which is defined as a temporary organization within a permanent organization set up to achieve a specific objective. It will broadly cover the operational and conceptual issues faced by modern project managers. At the end of this course, students should be able to develop, execute and control a basic project plan capable of supporting business objectives linked to measures of success for a single project. The research contents in this course include:
- CO1: Definition of project and project management
- CO2: Human resource management of a project
- CO3: Planning a project (Project scheduling, project time management and cost management)
- CO4: Resource Allocation
- CO5: Project control, risk management and termination
2. COURSE CONTENTS
No.
Contents
Time Allocation
Contribution to CLO
Hour(s) on the class
Essays, exercise,
Assignments...
(3)
Self-study with teacher’s tutorials
(4)
Lecture
(1)
Practice, Seminar…
(2)
1
Chapter 1: Overview of Project Management
3
0
0
7
1,2,7,8
2
Chapter 1: Overview of Project Management (con’t)
3
0
0
7
1,2,7,8
3
Chapter 2: Project Selection and Project Portfolio Process
3
0
0
7
3,6,7,8
4
Chapter 2: Planning with Project Selection and Project Portfolio Process (cont’t)
2
3
0
7.5
3,6,7,8
5
Chapter 3: The Project in the Organizational Structure
3
0
0
7
2,3,7,8
6
Mid-term test
0
0
0
0
1,2,6,7,8
7
Chapter 5: Project Activity Planning
3
1
0
7.5
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
8
Chapter 6: Project Budgeting and Cost Estimation
3
2
0
7
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
9
Chapter 7: Scheduling
2
3
0
7
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
10
Chapter 4: Risk Management
3
0
0
6.5
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
11
Chapter 8: Resource Allocation
2
3
0
7
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
12
Chapter 9: Project Control, Auditing and Termination
3
0
0
7
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
13
Guest speaker
0
3
4.5
5
7,8,9,10
14
Presentation & discussions
0
0
9
0
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
15
Presentation & discussions (con’t)
0
0
9
0
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Total (hour)
30
15
22.5
82.5
3. COURSE ASSESSMENT
- Score ladder: 10
- Type of assessment
Form
Content
Criteria
CLO
Proportion
Formative
Attendance
Assessment of attitude
The number of attendances and participation in lesson
9,10
10%
Assignment
Knowledge and skill assessment
- Form: Group assignment
- Content: Propose a project and write down the project planning including the following parts:
- Overview of the project : brief description, deliverables, milestones,…
- Objectives of the project
- Work breakdown structure (WBS) and Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)
- Schedules
- Resource requirements and allocation
- Project budgeting and cost estimation
- Evaluation methods : procedures for monitoring, collecting, and storing data on project performance
- Potential problems (if any)
- Criteria:
+ Clear and feasible topics : 2 points
+ Sufficient contents, straight to the point, logical analysis: 4 points
+ Use of variety of references: 1 point
+ Coherent writing, precise citation: 1 point
+ Well-presented, good Q&A part: 2 points
Total: 10 points
1,2,6,7,8
30%
Mid-term exam
Knowledge and skill assessment
- Form: multiple choices and short answer test
- Content: content in chapter 1,2,3
- Criteria:
+ Giving precise MC answers: 6 points
+ Clear, structured, informative essays: 4 points
Total: 10 points
Summative
Final test
Knowledge, skill and attitude assessment
- Form: Multiple choice questions/MCQ (15 questions) + short answer question (1-2 questions)
- Content: all materials covered in the course schedule
- Criteria:
+ Giving precise MC answers: 6 points
+ Clear, structured, informative essays: 4 points
Total: 10 points
1-10
60%
Total:
100%