Project Management and the Consultant Role
Study Board of Market and Management Anthropology, Economics, Mathematics-Economics, Environmental and Resource Management
Teaching language: English
EKA: B560025102
Censorship: Second examiner: Internal
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Autumn
Level: Master
Course ID: B560025101
ECTS value: 10
Date of Approval: 19-04-2022
Duration: 1 semester
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Study Board of Market and Management Anthropology, Economics, Mathematics-Economics, Environmental and Resource Management
Date of Approval
Course Responsible
| Name | Department | |
|---|---|---|
| Tove Brink | tbr@sam.sdu.dk | Institut for Sociologi, Miljø- og Erhvervsøkonomi (00) |
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Aim and purpose
Project management and consultancy role is a business economics subject, and it interacts with other business economics disciplines, especially within organization and management. Project management competence can be categorized as a generic competence that can be used in all project types and in both the private and public sectors. The student will therefore in principle be able to contribute to the management of any type of project. Examples and cases will be taken from many different project types and project contexts.
The purpose of this course is that the student develops knowledge of the most important concepts, theories, and methods within the project management discipline as well as skills in analyzing projects and project processes using these concepts, theories and methods. Furthermore, the course gives the student skills in presentation of analysis and solution and competences in participation and management of team work. This knowledge and these skills equip the student with competences that enables her/him to give valuable contributions to management and leadership.
Moreover, the purpose is that the student develops knowledge about different types of consulting and various consultant roles, so that he/she can analyze the interaction between a consultant and the client and contribute to constructive interaction.
The students build a solid methodological competence so that they through the use of appropriate methods and tools and suitable and ethical behavior (perhaps in a consultant´s role) are able to promote a good project implementation.
Content
- The project concept and the project management discipline.
- Project purpose(s) and objectives.
- Sustainability in projects and project management.
- Project mandate/charter and mission breakdown structure.
- Structuring the project.
- Milestone planning.
- Stakeholders, stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management.
- Uncertainty analysis.
- Activity planning.
- Project follow-up and monitoring.
- Quality in the project work.
- Organizing the project and staffing.
- Project communication.
- Teambuilding.
- Day to day management of the project team.
- Ethical behavior related to project work (e.g. when dealing with stakeholders).
- Consultancy and advisory roles. Interaction between consultant and client.
- Internal and external project management consultants in practice.
- Group processes, group process consultation, task and maintenance processes and consulting interventions.
- Planning and evaluation consulting efforts.
Description of outcome - Knowledge
The student must be able to demonstrate knowledge of concepts, theories, and methods within Project Management.
Description of outcome - Skills
The student must be able to demonstrate skills in using the concepts, theories, and methods within Project Management for a project proposal in a non-familiar case.
Description of outcome - Competences
The student must be able to demonstrate competences for in a team to analyze the project conditions and based on this produce a clear and well-structured project proposal for a fictive decision maker by correctly applying relevant methods, models, and theories to the case. The project proposal must contain relevant elements as indicated in “Key areas”. Further the student must be able to present the project proposal for a fictive decision maker in a power-point supported oral presentation and reflect on the theory and methods applied as well as on own team performance. Furthermore discuss ethical dilemmas, which could emerge in the project due to stakeholder management.
Literature
- Pinto 2020. Project Management Achieving Competitive Advantage. Pearson Education, 5th. Edition, Global Edition
- Eskerod, P. and Jepsen A.L. (2013) Project Stakeholder Management. Gower Publishing.
- Wickham L. and Wilcock J. 2020. Business and Management Consulting - Delivering an Effective Project, Pearson, 6th. Edition. Chapter 1+2.Selected articles and notes.
Teaching Method
The course consists of a total of 38 confrontation hours, of which 26 hours are focused on project management and 12 hours on the consultant role. Teaching will consist of dialogue-based lectures, work with small tasks, and student presentations.
Workload
Scheduled classes:
38 lectures distributed within 15 weeks.
Workload:
The students' workload is expected to be distributed as follows:
Lectures - 38 lecture hours
Preparation for lectures – 188 hours
Exam work – 37 hours
Total 270 hours.
This corresponds to an average weekly workload of 13 hours during the semester, including the exam.
Examination regulations
Examination
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Examination
Timing
Exam: January. (December for external exchange students)
Reexam: February.
Tests
Exam
Name
Exam
Form of examination
Take-home assignment with oral defence
Censorship
Second examiner: Internal
Grading
7-point grading scale
Identification
Student Identification Card - Date of birth
Language
Danish, English
Duration
Home assignment: 72 hours
Oral examination: 20 minutes
Length
No limitations.
Examination aids
All exam aids allowed.
Assignment handover
The assignment is handed over in Digital Exam.
Assignment handin
Electronic hand-in via Digital Exam.
ECTS value
10
Additional information
The student´s capabilities to meet course objectives are assessed using a 72-hour take-home group assignment (3-4 persons in a team), followed by an individual, oral examination. The 72 hours will typically include a weekend.
The group assignment consists of a non-familiar case for which the team has to produce a project proposal for a fictive decision maker. In addition to the project proposal, the team has to reflect upon its team performance. The proposal and team reflection must be delivered as a power-point presentation.
Each team produces one presentation. In the power point presentation, a number of sub parts (3 if the team consists of 3 persons, 4 if 4 persons) must be identifiable. Each sub part must correspond to an oral presentation lasting maximum 10 minutes. Additional written material may be submitted together with the power-point slides. It will be seen as background material for the assessment – and is of minor importance compared to the power-point slides and the oral presentation.
Immediately prior to the oral examination the examiners draw lots on who is to present which sub part. After the 10 minutes presentation the examiner examines the student in the subjects covered in the presentation and in the knowledge that the student has gained about the theories covered by the literature.
The student’s performance at the exam will be assessed based on his/her ability to (1) apply relevant methods, models, and theories to the case and team performance, (2) answer the questions posed in the oral examination, (3) make a professional power-point based oral presentation, and (4) reflect about team performance.
The examination can be taken in Danish or English. If the teacher and/or the co-examiner is not Danish-speaking, the exam must be taken in English. In all other cases, Danish-speaking students are allowed to attend the exam in Danish (that is – to answer the questions in Danish) regardless that the language of instruction as well as the case assignment has been English. According to §6 in the executive order on examinations, the university is allowed to grant exemptions from the rule that an examination must be conducted in the same language as the language of instruction.
EKA
B560025102
External comment
NOTE - This course is identical with the former course Project Management and the Consultant Role, 9044201.
Used examination attempts in the former identical course will be transferred.
Courses that are identical with former courses that are passed according to applied rules cannot be retaken.