VOØ001 Project Management

Contents and structure

The course aims to provide candidates with a thorough understanding of key knowledge areas within project management. It is designed to enhance candidates' understanding, competence, and skills in the development, organization, and management of real projects.

Candidates will receive an introduction to the various phases of projects, management, organization, and leadership, as well as teamwork. There will be a balance between theoretical instruction and an introduction to concepts, methods, and tools, along with practical challenges that encourage collaboration, creativity, and a solution-oriented approach.

Through the application of theory, tools, and methods, candidates will develop skills in project management. Emphasis is placed on candidates' ability to discuss and reflect at a professional level. In addition, candidates should be able to develop and reflect on their own skills in teamwork, as well as practice oral presentations.

Learning Outcome

The candidate will, after completing and passing the course, possess:

Knowledge of:

• The significance of projects, value creation, and project success
• Project definition, as well as selection of implementation strategy and planning
• Project management and organization
• Leadership in projects, as well as team and team development
• Handling uncertainty, including identification, analysis, prioritization, and development of measures to address uncertainty factors
• Stakeholders and stakeholder management
• Learning and innovation in projects, as well as sustainability and ethics in project work
• Project closure

Skills:

• Describe theories and models for project management and apply them in practice
• Use Excel or equivalent to develop plan documents
• Select and apply relevant analyses and models for a given project
• Communicate relevant professional knowledge to various stakeholders, both in writing, verbally, and visually, including the preparation of plan documents and reports
• Reflect on one's own professional practice

General competence:

• Collaborate in a team to create a common product
• Critically reflect on one's own professional practice and development
• Exchange and convey viewpoints and experiences with others in project work to contribute to the development of best practices

Entry requirements

None

Teaching methods

The methods of work will vary between lectures, group work, participant presentations, discussions, and practical exercises. The course is structured as weekend sessions, complemented by teamwork, including assignments between the sessions.

Compulsory learning activities

There are three compulsory assignments to be completed by teams of 4-5 individuals throughout the semester.

The assignments must be completed by the specified deadlines and approved before the examination can be taken. Candidates who only wish to receive a course certificate and do not intend to take the exam must also have completed and approved assignments.

Approved assignments are only valid in the current semester.

Assessment

Partial exam with a project assignment and a home exam. Both parts must be passed to get a grade in the course. The project assignment makes up 60% of the final grade and the home exam makes up 40% of the final grade.

Grade scale A-F, where F corresponds to fail.

Course reductions

• ØAA117 - Praktisk prosjektleiing - Reduction: 7.5 studypoints