Course information

Course Aims:

The overall qualification goal of the module is to enable the students to plan, implement, and successfully complete projects economically, efficiently, and according to modern agile and classic management methods. They understand the project or product life cycle and, based on the mediating classic and agile project and product management methodology, they can create, analyze, interpret and evaluate individual essential building blocks of project management and apply them future-oriented. They will learn about challenges in ensuring quality (quality management), opportunities, and threats in development and implementation (risk management), and the principles of identifying user needs (requirements management). Furthermore, the students learn the roles, tasks, and processes in modern project management, as well as the special features and challenges in stakeholder management, and can implement this in the future in a communication and information management strategy. Also, the students are aware of the similarities and differences between individual and multi-project / project portfolio management.

Course Content:

At the end of the course, the students can act in the mediated roles in agile and classic projects, understand the essential project management processes, can generate central management documents themselves, and can apply and further deepen the methodology in future projects.