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ME2015 Project Management: Leadership and Control 6.0 credits

Projektledning: Ledning och styrning av projekt

Projects as a form of organizing industrial work is becoming increasingly usual in most sectors of society, and project management thus becomes a common work content for engineers. In practice, most of today’s students of engineering, science, business and social science will be involved in project work within just a short time after graduation, in one way of another. Many of the major employers of engineering graduates has already organised large parts of their operations by projects.

The emergence of projects as a central form of organising industrial work also corresponds to an emergent ’professionalisation’ of project management. Those who are assigned responsibility for large projects often have project management as their occupation, and has acquired a thorough knowledge on project management as a theoretical discipline.

  • Educational level

    Second cycle

  • Academic level (A-D)

    C

  • Subject area

    Industrial Management

  • Grade scale

    A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Course offerings

Autumn 12 for programme students

Spring 13 for programme students

Spring 14 for programme students

Learning outcomes

The overall aim of the course is to give participants comprehensive knowledge on project management in different types of industrial operations. After passing the course successfully, the student shall be able to participate in industrial project work in their respective technological areas.

After passing the course, the participant should be able to:

  • Describe the structure of Project Management as a field of knowledge and explain basic concepts of the field
  • Describe the main characteristics and differences of/between industrial delivery projects, product development projects and internal development projects.
  • Formulate project goals that are realistic, solution-neutral and evaluable
  • Use tools such as WBS/PBS, OBS, Gantt and PERT/CPM for detailed time planning of a project, and also be able to choose what tools that should/should not be used
  • Describe basic stage-gate models such as PROPS or PPS
  • Describe a theoretical risk management process and use simplified tools such as Minirisk
  • Describe a project budgeting process and explain the use of Earned Value Management
  • Explain the relation between projects and permanent organizations, and describe what different solutions that exist in order to alleviate the problems inherent in that relation
  • Explain the relation between projects and their external environments and apply a stakeholder management process to a specific project
  • Describe the main tasks and responsibilities of project managers
  • Analyse a real life project by means of Project Management concepts and tools, and give recommendations on how to improve the management of that project

Course main content

The course is focused on planning and control activities in contract-based projects and change projects in several industrial areas. The established project management theory is compared to a number of cases. Starting by providing a basic understanding of the project management discipline and profession, the course goes on to topics such as project planning, project organising, management control and project leadership. A major term paper task will be carried out in the form of an empirical study of a real life project. Guest lecturers from industry will provide their views of practical project management.

Eligibility

6 hp in Industrial Management or equivalent.

Exemption for those students in program CMATD, who have read the course MH1021 in autumn 2009 or 2010.

Documented proficiency in Swedish B and English B or equivalent.

Prerequisites

Basic course in Industrial management or equal.

Literature

Will be announced in the course PMK.

Examination

  • SEM1 - Seminar, 3.0 credits, grade scale: P, F
  • TEN1 - Examination, 3.0 credits, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Requirements for final grade

Written exam, participation in seminars.

Offered by

ITM/Industrial Economics and Management

Contact

Johann.packendorff@indek.kth.se, 790 6058

Examiner

Johann Packendorff <johann@kth.se>

Supplementary information

Established Autumn 06

Replaces 4D1047 and 4D1071

Add-on studies

ME2017 Project Management: Leading Project-Based Operations

Version

Course plan valid from: Autumn 11.
Examination information valid from: Autumn 07.