General Project Management Methodology

The course deals with the theoretical basis and techniques of general project management with a focus on their application in professional project management.

The course centres on projects carried out in a context of a mother organisation. The central issue is how the project manager can most efficiently deal with actors in the mother organisation, something which might be decisive for the success of the project. In particular, issues of the demarcation, planning, organsation and conclusion of individual projects are studied, as is the interaction between the project management and the management of the organisation in which the project is carried out.

Instruction is in the form of lectures, laboratory work and seminars. Students work in groups with authentic cases. Students who take the course as distance education must have access to computer with broadband Internet access and Flash Player installation as well as communication equipment including a web camera.

Progressive specialisation: G1N (has only upper‐secondary level entry requirements)

Education level: Undergraduate level

Admission requirements: General admission requirements

Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.

This course is included in the following programme

• Master Programme in Social Science: Focus History (studied during year 1)
• Study Programme in IT, Project management and ERP Systems (studied during year 1)
• Study Programme in IT-Design: Enterprise Systems and Economy (studied during year 3)
• Engineering: Industrial Engineering and Management-Computer Engineering (studied during year 3)
• Engineering: Industrial Engineering and Management (studied during year 3)
• Engineering: Industrial Engineering and Management-Energy and Env. Eng. (studied during year 3)
• Engineering: Industrial Engineering and Management-Chemical Engineering (studied during year 3)
• Engineering: Industrial Engineering and Management-Mechanical Engineering (studied during year 3)
• Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, spec. in Materials Engineering (studied during year 3)
• Engineering: Engineering Physics (studied during year 3)
• Master of Science in Engineering, Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering, specialisation in Materials Engineering (studied during year 1)
• Bachelor Programme in Computer Science (studied during year 1)
• Engineering: Surveying Technology and Geographical IT (studied during year 2)