Objectives and competences
- to present the importance of projects and project management in ensuring the sustainability of (manufacturing) companies,
- to demonstrate how to plan a sustainable project (project documentation) is done in practice,
- to train students to plan, organize, implement and control sustainable projects effectively,
- to train students in digital support for project planning and management.
Competences:
- Understanding and solving green issues in organisations that are interdisciplinary in nature and require a project-based approach for their solution.
- Ability for teamwork.
- Ability to use digital tools for the project planning and management process.
Content (Syllabus outline)
- Project management for corporate sustainability
- Selecting and evaluating sustainable projects
- Project start-up process
- Digital project planning and scheduling
- Digital project resource and cost planning
- Digital project control and implementation
Learning and teaching methods
1. frontal lectures with real-life cases,
2. computer work,
3. project work,
4. presentation of project work.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
- identify basic methods and techniques to plan, organize, implement and control sustainable projects,
- design project schedule plan, project budget and project resource plan,
- organize and control project implementation,
- design project plans and reports with support of digital tools,
- evaluate projects from content, technical, economical, sustainable and green perspective.
Readings
- I. Palčič: Planiranje in vodenje projektov, Fakulteta za strojništvo, 2023 (e-gradivo).
- I. Palčič: Navodila za uporabo MS Project, Fakulteta za strojništvo, 2023 (e-gradivo).
- A. Stare. Agilno!?: projekti, zaposleni, podjetja, Agencija Poti d. o. o., Ljubljana, 2020.
- H. Kerzner: Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 2017.
- J. M. Nicholas, H. Steyn: Project Management for Business, Engineering, and Technology: Principles and Practice, Elsevier Inc., 2021.
Prerequisits
Prerequisite for admission to the exam is a completed project work.
