Content
The character of the course is interdisciplinary, primarily aiming for industrial engineering, business administration,
Engineering, and natural science students. The course offers rich learning content through videos, screencasts, voice-over slide decks, podcast and selected parts of a standard textbook in project management. Students are guided through the material via a serious game approach, which uses an in-presence multi-day board game. In the game set-up students organize in teams and have to perform a complete project planning exercise for a simulated project. In particular, students have to deal with concrete planning tasks, including:
- Organization and tasks of project management
- Project structuring, phases of the project, milestones
- Project stakeholder management
- Project planning, tools for project planning (Gantt, etc.), basics of network planning
- Project risk analysis
Through working in a project team during the serious game, students also learn about project team building and team management.
