AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

In the Course the Methodologies devoted to address Projects and Programs are related to the Strategies of Main Contractors and Customers Strategic Project Management has a transdisciplinary approach combining Strategic Management, Planning, Engineering, Negotiation, Claim Management, etc.. The Course provides methodologies and techniques devoted to address Program efficiency and competitiveness. The Course provides the comparative analysis and elments related to the International Project Management Certifications such as IPMA, PMI and Prince2. At the end of the Course the Student will be able to be proactive in Project Management and to master the main methodologies as well as to support the Project Team and Project Manager.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Individual study, as well as active in-person attendance to class and activities will enable students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills in:

Strategic management;

International project management

International project management certifications;

Strategic planning;

Engineering and logistics;

Risk assessment and predictive methods.

Decision support methods

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures and exams will be held in presence.

The course consists of face-to-face in-person lectures for 5 credits CFU/ECTS, during which theoretical notions will be contextualised in the light of practical (historical and/or current) cases.

Lessons are taught jointly by several lecturers, each responsible for one part of the programme. Lessons, therefore, will be taught by the following lecturers:

• Francesco Bellotti
• Elvezia M. Cepolina
• Stefano Dominelli
• Antonio Giovannetti
• External lecturer

(see in detail the below section devoted to professors)

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Decision support methods and techniques [E.M. Cepolina];;
Multi-criteria analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process [E.M. Cepolina];

Project Management: Definitions, General Concepts and Processes. Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management. Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Quality Management in Projects. Project Management & Human Resources, Communications, Project Risk Management, Project Risk Management, Purchasing Management in Projects. Methodologies and Techniques in Project Management. [A. Giovannetti];

International contracts: competent court and applicable law in default and in the presence of specific negotiated clauses [S. Dominelli];

Public contracts and procurement (general principles) [S. Dominelli];

Algorithms for strategic management: critical path method (PCM), risk assessment, resource allocation and scheduling, timeseries forecasting [External lecturer];

Strategic management seminars [F. Bellotti].

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

For classes taught by F. Bellotti

Notes, slides and other materials provided by the lecturer.

For classes taught by E.M. Cepolina

Slides and other materials provided by the lecturer.

For classes taught by A. Giovannetti

Slides and other material provided by the lecturer
 

For classes taught by S. Dominelli

Slides given by the lecturer, integrated with class notes individually taken by students.

For classes taught by the external lecturer

Notes, slides and other materials (Jupyter notebooks) provided by the lecturer.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FRANCESCO BELLOTTI (President)

ELVEZIA-MARIA CEPOLINA

STEFANO DOMINELLI

RICCARDO BERTA (President Substitute)

AGOSTINO BRUZZONE (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

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Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The examination is oral, held in person and only during official exam sessions.

The oral examination consists of the students' discussion of a project, which they must realise and submit to all lecturers (via e-mail) at least 5 days before the examination session. The discussion, which may include all the topics of the course, aims to verify the learners' acquisition of the project management skills covered in the course.

Only for the law lectures, the lecturer prepares an optional, multiple-choice written test during the last lecture, which may exempt the person concerned from the corresponding part of the syllabus in the oral examination.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The examination aims to test whether the students are able to identify, understand and solve problems, risks and solutions in International Project Management settings, as well as independently develop solutions to possible problems in a multidisciplinary perspective.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

For DSA: interested persons must get in touch with the departmental contact person and not the lecturer.