Courses Bachelor Display 2017-2018
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Course title | Project and Process Management | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course code | EBC2050 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECTS credits | 6,5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assessment | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Level | Intermediate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinator |
Peter Bollen For more information: p.bollen@maastrichtuniversity.nl |
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Language of instruction | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Goals |
The course is directed at the following learning and competences:
- developing an awareness of the range, scope and complexity of the phenomena, issues and problems related to project and process management; - developing an integrated and process oriented perspective on managing complex projects and team work; - acquiring competencies in the usage of tools, techniques, methods and models for managing projects and processes. |
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Description |
The development of new products, services and processes is predominantly carried out in project groups. That means that people from different sectors of the organisation are brought together on a temporary basis to accomplish a complex task. The project management part of this course offers an insight in the role of project management in different organisational contexts. Special attention is given to the following issues: project selection, the project manager, project planning, resource allocation and project control. The process management part of this course deals with operation, strategy and process management. We define a process to be any transformation that converts inputs to outputs. The process view considers any organization to be a process that consists of interconnected sub processes. In this part of the course we will provide students with the basic concepts that enables them to describe processes in a way that allows them to apply "management levers" on those processes: process flow time, work-in-process, process-efficiency and so forth.
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Literature |
Project management in practice 5th edition. Mantel, Meredith, Shafer and Sutton. Wiley, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-118-67466-6 (mandatory) (all students)
Managing Business Process Flows 3rd edition. Anupindi, Chopra, Deshmukh, Van Mieghem and Zemel. Pearson, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-292-02311-3 (IB students) Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains 11th (global) edition. Krajewski,L., Ritzman, L. and M. Malhotra. Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2016. (NON-IB students) |
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Prerequisites |
The prior knowledge of the students on these topics is limited to parts of the organisation & marketing course. Exchange students should have prior knowledge of basic organisational and marketing concepts on an introductory level’
An advanced level of English |
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Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Assignment / Groupwork | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) | Final Paper / Participation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evaluation in previous academic year | For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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