731101 Project management

Type
Lecture
Semester hours
2
Lecturer (assistant)
Wytrzens, Hans Karl
Organisation
Offered in
Sommersemester 2025
Languages of instruction
Deutsch
Content

• Tasks and applications of project management, especially in biotechnology
• Success factors of project work
• Techniques of project selection
• Project environment and stakeholder analysis
• Project organisation and process moderation (team building, conflict resolution and participation models); plan-driven, hybrid and agile approaches
• Project planning steps (classic planning of tasks, quality, work breakdown, processes and schedule, resource and cost planning, risk analysis, interface planning, agile backlogs, user stories, sprint planning)
• Project realisation (coordination, control and adaptation techniques, agile methods and tools, daily stand-up, sprint review, sprint retrospective)
• Project completion and evaluation
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Previous knowledge expected

Basic knowledge on high school level
Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

Objectives:
• Transfer of basic knowledge about conceptual design, realisation, control and steering of projects
• Imparting knowledge about the design, realisation and moderation of projects
• Development of creative-conceptive skills
•Training of personal management skills

Learning outcomes:
Students who have completed the course are able to
• Understand the historical genesis and prevalence of project management and identify applications of project management in food technology and biotechnology,
• Identify relevant international project management organisations, journals published by them as well as standards and certification options,
• Check project worthiness, typify projects according to various criteria and assess type-specific impacts on project management tools,
• Select traditional, hybrid, or agile forms of project management appropriate to the situation and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of different project organisation variants,
• Formulate project objectives, deliverables, exclusions and limits,
• Check project feasibility and present project drafts,
• Make comprehensible selection decisions from several project ideas,
• Check the feasibility of project ideas, independently create project definitions and analyse and evaluate those developed by others,
• Apply tools for project planning and implementation,
• Independently create product backlog and sprint backlog as well as user stories,
• Apply relevant criteria when assembling project teams and professionally handle group dynamic phenomena of team building,
• Define different roles in the classic, hybrid, and agile project and clearly assign the diverse types of responsibilities,
• Identify stakeholders, assess their attitude towards and influence on the project and manage them according to their needs,
• Plan and practice professional project communication,
• Use tools to control and steer project implementation and project risk,
• Determine project key figures and interpret them in an appropriate manner,
• Handle motivation problems and conflicts in project teams adequately,
• Evaluate project management performances.
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You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.