Scientific and Technologic Project Management

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1 Course Title Scientific and Technologic Project Management 1.1. Code Academic Course Course Type Course core 1.4. Course Level Master 1.5. Year 1º 1.6. Semester 1º 1.7. Credit allotment 6 ECTS 1.8. Language Spanish 1.9. Prerequisites For students to be able to acquire satisfactorily the knowledge, abilities and skills taught as part of the course, they should be practised at Spanish and English reading comprehension and critique, using the electronic subject materials available at the Moodle platform ( and actively 1

2 searching and selecting literature and supplementary material on the web and bibliographical resources. Students also require report writing as well as personal initiative, analytic and synthetic abilities, and perseverance to understand, practise and solve problems during the course. Students shall be eager to learn and keen to develop a habit of independent study, as well as about group work. Finally, students shall have to be enthusiastic about and supportive of both, leadership and cooperative teamwork, which are essential parts of this course Faculty data Coordinator: Dr. Miren Idoia Alarcón Departamento de Ingeniería Informática Escuela Politécnica Superior Office: Módulo: B-334 Edificio B 3ª Planta Phone: Idoia.alarcon@uam.es Web page: Course objectives The purpose of the Scientific and Technologic Project Management course is to instruct and involve students in the management of quality software projects. Therefore, the aim of the subject is for students to be able to participate in any software system management activity in an enterprise, focussing on technological organizations. Students will learn to apply key and practical guides, methodologies, techniques and proceedings during the respective software project management process activities. Students will be also taught about verbal and writing communications as well as leadership and teamwork skills. The aim behind this is to bring students closer to the profession and software system management in industry, learning the methods, techniques, procedures and tools required to manage quality software system development for the different project management activities that they will have to perform during their professional career. Also they will learn the current state of the art with regard to software project management methods and tools. In this sense, PMBOK and other key methodologies and good practices will be taught. Students will also learn how to manage both, a project office and projects portfolio. The basic competences that students acquire through this subject are: 2

3 G3 G5 G6 G9 Ability to manage, plan and monitor multidisciplinary teams. Ability for project elaborating, strategic planning, coordinating and technical, economical and organizational managing related to diverse Computer Science areas in compliance to quality and environmental criteria. Ability to manage both, research and development software projects within enterprises and technologic centre. Ability to fully understand and apply ethics responsibility, laws and professional ethics in software engineer activities. G10 Ability to apply economic principles and project and human resources management as well as computer science legislation, regulation and standardization. The information systems-specific technological competences that students acquire through the Scientific and Technologic Project Management subject are: DG2 Ability for strategic planning, elaborating, coordinating and technical, economical and organizational managing related to diverse Computer Science areas related to, among others, systems, applications, services, networks or informatics infrastructures and software development centres and factories always in compliance to corresponding quality and environmental criteria and within multidisciplinary work teams. DG3 Ability to development, research and innovation project management in technological centres or enterprises accomplishing guarantee of humans and goods safety and products final quality including its homologation. Finally, the common computing-related competences that students acquire through the Scientific and Technologic Project Management subject are: TI1 TI4 TI5 Ability to model, design, architecture define, set up, manage, operate, administrate and maintain different issues such as applications, networks, systems, services and informatics artefacts. Ability to design, develop, manage and evaluate both, certification proceedings and safety assurance when accessing and processing information in a either local or distributed system. Ability to information needs analysis and its corresponding development through all information system lifecycle stages. 3

4 The learning outcomes that students achieve through the Software Engineering Project course are: Fundaments of management and integral software lifecycle activities. Proficient use of the notations, techniques, methods and tools for performing such activities. Clear understanding of software project management difficulties and the identification of most adequate and efficient solutions. Comprehension of direct impact when carrying out project management activities related to development products quality, process effectivity and customer, stakeholders and project team satisfaction. Skills to lead teams, collaborate within work teams and effectively communicate wanted concepts and messages. Knowledge of PMBOK guide, its areas and processes. Knowledge of most current and used methodologies basis to support project management, in particular COBIT, PRINCE2, SCRUM and CMMI. Knowledge of Project Management Offices characteristics, competences and mission as well as IT services management standards Course contents UNIT 1. Communications and leadership workshop UNIT 2. Introduction to project management UNIT 3. Management activities: planning, monitoring and control UNIT 4. PMBOK Guide UNIT 5. Project management support methodologies UNIT 6. Project management office UNIT 7. Entrepreneurship Detailed Programme UNIT 1. Communications and leadership workshop - Estimated duration: 6 hours 1.1. Communications planning 1.2. The three truths and the three lies of the human communication 1.3. Co-operation 4

5 1.4. Basic verbal communication techniques 1.5 Non verbal comunication 1.6 Rapport: its importance 1.7 Leadership 1.8 Role-plays. UNIT 2. Introduction to project management - Estimated duration: 3 hours 2.1. Project concept. Project vs. operational work 2.2. Project management main activities 2.3 Why software Project management is different? 2.4 Project manager responsibilities, skills and competences 2.5 Project constraints: scope, duration, resources, cost, quality, risks 2.6 Win-Win theory 2.9 Examples and exercices UNIT 3. management activities: planning, monitoring and control - Estimated duration: 12 h 3.1 Time management 3.2 Resource management 3.3 Cost management 3.4 Team management 3.5 Quality management 3.6 Risk management 3.7 Project plan 3.8 Project monitoring and control 3.9 PRACTICE: Project portfolio management UNIT 4. PMBOK Guide - Estimated duration: 7 hours 4.1 Project management context 4.2 Stakeholders 4.3 The knowledge ten areas 4.4 Process groups 4.5 PMI model for Project Management 4.6 Hierarchical context: strategic plan, portfolio, programme, project and subproject. 4.7 PMP (Project Manager Professional) exam and certificate 4.8 Examples and exercices UNIT 5. Project management support methodologies - Estimated duration: 7 h 5.1 CMMI 5.2 COBIT 5.3 PRINCE AGILE METHODOLOGY: SCRUM PRACTICE: SCRUM estimation workshop UNIT 6. Project management office - Estimated duration: 5 hours 6.1 PMO objectives 6.2 Competences and Organization 6.3 Services management: ITIL 6.4 PRACTICE: KPI selection in order to support PMO project management 5

6 UNIT 7. Entrepreneurship - Estimated duration: 2 hours 7.1 Business plan and Enterprises creation 7.2 Entrepreneurship in technologic enterprises: successful examples Course bibliography 1. R. S. PRESSMAN. Ingeniería del Software. Un Enfoque Práctico. 6ª Edición. McGraw Hill, I. SOMMERVILLE. Ingeniería del Software. 7ª Edición. Pearson Educación, E. M. HALL. Managing Risk Methods for Software Systems Development. Addison Wesley, ARJONILLA DOMÍNGUEZ, SIXTO JESÚS; MEDINA GARRIDO, JOSÉ AURELIO. La Gestión de los Sistemas de Información en la Empresa. Teoría y Casos Prácticos. 3ª edición. Editorial: Pirámide (Grupo Anaya) Madrid. ISBN: DOMINGO AJENJO, ALBERTO. Dirección y gestión de proyectos: un enfoque práctico 2ª edición RA- MA ISBN: GROLUMUND, CARLOS. Claves para la gestión de proyectos. Gestión eficiente de proyectos y de trabajo en equipo. Fun. Confemetal ISBN: ZOBEL, JUSTIN. Writing for computer science.. Springer, INF/D5000 ZOB. 7. LAMARCA OROZCO, IGNACIO, RODRÍGUEZ, JOSÉ RAMON y GARCÍA MÍNGUEZ, JORDI. Gestión de proyectos informáticos: métodos, herramientas y casos. Editorial UOC, S.L. ISBN: QUINN, M.J. Ethics for the Information Age.. Pearson, LLEDÓ, PABLO. Director de Proyectos. Como aprobar el examen de PMP sin morir en el intento ISBN: PMI (Project Mangement Institute). Guía de los fundamentos para la dirección de proyectos (guía del PMBOK ). ISBN: PIATTINI, MARIO, GARCÍA RUBIO, FELIX ET AL. Medición y estimación del software : técnicas y métodos para mejorar la calidad y productividad. ISBN: ÁLVAREZ GARCÍA, ALONSO, DE LAS HERAS DEL DEDO, RAFAEL, LASA GÓMEZ, CARMEN, Métodos Ágiles y Scrum. Anaya ISBN: IT GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE. COBIT jtsmf. Fundamentos de Gestión de Servicios TI basados en ITIL Van Haren Publishing. ISBN: MAQUEIRA MARÍN, J.M y GARCÍA TOMÉ. A. Gestión de la Calidad en empresas Tecnológicas.TQM- ITIL Starbook Editorial, S.A. ISBN: Moodle ( will be used to exchange all documents related to this subject. 6