Project Management
PhD School at the Faculty of SCIENCE at University of Copenhagen
This course introduces you to basic concepts and tools to be used in project management. The knowledge and skills you will gain are generic and transferable across organizations and different kind of projects. Most important is of course your own phd project. A very concrete outcome of the course is that you will be able to formulate and establish a detailed and operational project plan for your phd. A traditonal phd plan might not be particulary operational for the phd student and most offen not detailed enough for you to be able to be in control
Aiming at how to manage a project the course will take you through the different phases in a project: 1) initiating/defining, 2) planning, 3) executing and 4) closing. The focus in the course will be on the planning phase and you will be presented with tools useful in steering deliverables, cost, time, risk management and stakeholder management. The planning phase is crucial for steering the execution of a project but so is the ability to lead a project team. Therefore the course will touch on how to lead a team and on team dynamics. The course provides a basic understanding of the different parts of project management in order to develop the skills of the PhD-students contributing to a future job. But the knowledge and skills the course provides are not only for future use. PhD-students can apply the project management tools to their own PhD-project. The course will be a mix of lectures, exercises and teamwork. There will be examples from how companies work with projects and the course will be conducted in corporation with professional project managers from private companies.
Learning outcome
On completion of the course the participant is expected to have gained a practical foundation for planning, controlling and conducting projects.
This includes knowledge of:
- The concepts of projects, diffent phases and the project life cycle
- Team dynamics
- Project Leadership
And skills/experiences in:
- Initiating/defining a project
- Planning for milestones and deliverables
- Scheduling for costs, time and resources
- Risk and stakeholder management
Literature
A compilation of lecture slides and lecture notes will be available throughout the course, together with a list of suggested readings. One of the items on this list will be
Gido, J; J. Clements & R. Baker (2018): Successful Project Management, 7th ed. Cengage.
Teaching and learning methods
The activities in the course will be a mix of lectures, instructions, excersises and team work.
A weeks after the last course day each course participant must submit in a reflection essay.
Remarks
A full course program including a plan for the suggested pre-course reading will be available two weeks prior to the first course day. Expect activities between 8.30 am and 4.00 pm.
The minimum number of participants is 20. We might cancel the course on a very short note if there is not enough participants.
Price PhD students in the Graduate School of Science: DKK 5000. Other UCPH: According to Internal Market. Phd Students for Open Market partners: DKK 7250 plus VAT. Others: DKK 9.000 plus VAT
Course responsibles:
Tina Hansen (tih@ifro.ku.dk)
Anders Dahl (and@ifro.ku.dk)
Lecturers:
Morten Meldgaard, Project Director, Chr. Hansen A/S
Stig Lykke Iversen, Department Manager, Radiometer Medical ApS