Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

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• Project development, project objectives, project mandate
• Stakeholder analysis
• Risk identification and risk management, introduction to the scenario technique
• Project structure plan
• Project schedule (resources, costs, time)
• Project controlling
• Project marketing
• Project communication and leadership
• Conflict management
• Securing knowledge and results

The execution of tasks in organisations regularly follows the guidelines of the organisational structure and process organisation. Parallel to this, non-routine tasks in particular run in a project organisation. Competences in project organisation and project management therefore belong to the basic skills for students of business administration.

The students are able to mentally recall the essential instruments of project management at any time using the phase model. They are aware of the interdependencies between the individual instruments and techniques of project planning and project control and know the importance of detailed and varied project planning. In particular, the students have internalised the importance of hierarchy-free leadership in the project with the competence levels of methodological competence and social competence through their own experience.

After completing the course, they also understand how to recognise, evaluate and, if necessary, defuse risks. The students can recognise critical project situations in the role of project management at an early stage and take countermeasures in good time.

The students are enabled to create their own project ideas and to implement them in a targeted and consistent manner using the instruments of project management. They learn to assemble a project team as well as to lead it with the means of hierarchy-free leadership.

By getting to know the scenario technique, the students are able to react adequately to disruptions in the project process in order to ensure the achievement of the project goal.

The students are enabled to grasp whether a topic to be worked on is basically workable and whether the method case of project management is really the appropriate tool for realisation. In particular, the students become acquainted with essential business management framework conditions with regard to the time required, the financial resources and the quality requirements of the project to be realised in a practical manner.

The students are put in a position to initiate projects themselves in a professional and private context and to motivate other people to become permanently involved in a project in a synergetic way. They are systematically prepared for the practical project coming up in the following semester so that they can also recognise both the possibilities and the limits of the team members in the role of project management and strengthen their special skills.

In their dealings with the client, they will be put in a position to clearly recognise business requirements and to demand the necessary resources for a successful project with objective arguments.

Interactive course with lecture, case studies, exercises in individual and group work, presentations and homework.

Written exam, written paper, individual weighting according to the instructors, announcement at the beginning of the semester

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Burghardt, Manfred (2012): Projektmanagement: Leitfaden für die Planung, Überwachung und Steuerung von Projekten. 9. Aufl. Erlangen: Publicis Publishing

Burghardt, Manfred (2013): Einführung in Projektmanagement: Definition, Planung, Kontrolle und Abschluss. 6. Aufl., Erlangen: Publicis Publishing

Patzack, Gerald; Rattay, Gunter (2008): Projektmanagement. Wien: Linde Verlag.

Classes without compulsory attendance