Overordnede kursusmål
Project, program and portfolio management skills are vital
throughout the lifecycle of engineering systems. This course will
introduce the students to the state-of-the-art in project, program
and portfolio management throughout contracting, design, operation
and divestment. The focus will be on complex socio-technical
engineering systems with long life cycles, such as energy
generation and distribution, transportation infrastructure,
construction systems, aerospace and defense systems, maritime
systems, IT systems or product/service systems. The objective of
the course is to enable students to apply system-oriented, advanced
project, program and portfolio management techniques in this highly
interdisciplinary context and prepare them for future leadership
roles in industry or government agencies.
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Identify and critical reflect upon key challenges in the
project, program and portfolio management of an engineering
system
- Apply system-oriented methods to identify root causes of
challenges
- Identify and prioritize best practices to address challenges
and improve project, program and portfolio performance
- Develop business cases and successfully argue for
organizational change initiatives
- Develop implementation plans for project, program and portfolio
management related changes
- Explain and discuss the similarities and differences between
the management of projects, programs and portfolios
- Understand the implications of interdisciplinary design
activities and business strategy and public policy on the
management of engineering systems
- In writing promote, explain and argue for the understanding and
analysis of a challenge in a wiki article and final report
(buisiness case)
- Orally present and argue for the analysis of the challenge of
and proposal for a solution
- Give constructive feedback upon the work of others
- Find relevant and supplementary information from external
sources necessary to solve the tasks
Kursusindhold
The course will address three major areas that create challenges
for project, program and portfolio management: 1. Complexity, with
a particular focus on the relationship of technical and
organizational complexity. 2. Uncertainty, with a focus on
identifying and mitigating key risks and uncertainties throughout
the long life cycles of engineering systems. And 3. Human behavior,
addressing the social and organizational intricacies caused by
public opinion formation as well as inner- and intra-organizational
factors.
The course will also address to major operational interfaces of
project and program management, first, to the interdisciplinary
design processes (e.g. systems engineering) and secondly, to
business strategy and public policy.
The course is built around three major activities: 1. Lectures and
seminars, 2. Individual assignment resulting in a wiki entry on
current challenges and/or best practices. Students will review
their colleagues’ papers, and results will be presented. And 3. A
group assignment in the form of a business case for organizational
change is presented in class.
Litteraturhenvisninger
Course literature will be communicated at course start
Sidst opdateret
29. juni, 2017
