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Outline
Whats this course about?
Project Management, Master in HCI
Joo Cunha, ISEC (jcunha@isec.pt)

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Project Management

Objectives
Project management is concerned with knowledge about
the planning, organization, and monitoring of all project
life-cycle phases.
Management is critical to ensure that:
development projects are appropriate to an organization,
the work in different organizational units is coordinated,
product versions and configurations are maintained,
resources are available when necessary,
project work is divided appropriately,
communication is facilitated, and
progress is accurately charted.

The main objective of this course is to provide knowledge,

understanding and practice on project management
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, students shall be able to:
Demonstrate through involvement in a team project the
central elements of team building and team management
Prepare a plan for a project that includes scope definition,
definition and sequence of activities, estimates, schedule,
and resource allocation
Perform risk identification and management.
Understand the activities associated with project
implementation, monitoring and control
Use different methods and techniques to assure the quality
of a product or service
Know, understand and apply agile principles to project
management
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Course Philosophy
During classes, the concepts are presented and
accompanied with analysis and discussion of case studies
Along the curse, students shall plan and define the
activities of a project, under a traditional and an agile
approach
Project plans are prepared by teams out of the classes,
and presented and discussed during classes.
Projects execution and control is simulated during classes.
At the end of the course students must write a report
analysing the overall performance of their activities, and
showing understanding of traditional and agile principles
for project management.
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Syllabus
Introduction to project
management

1.

Project management
Management and
development processes

5.

WBS
Estimation
Scheduling
6.

Traditional development
models

2.

Waterfall
Iterative

Project Monitoring and

Control
Gantt
Earned value analysis

7.

Risk and quality

management

3.

Project Planning

Risk assessment
Verification and validation

Agile software
development
The principles of agile
Scrum

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Schedule
Session 1, 13/Feb Introduction to project management
Session 2, 14/Feb Traditional development models
Session 3, 14/Feb Risk and quality management
Assignment 1 Write a project vision and scope

Session 4, 21/Feb Project planning

Session 5, 21/Feb Project monitoring and control
Assignment 2 Write a project plan

Session 6, 28/Feb Run and control a project

Session 7, 28/Feb Agile Development
Assignment 3 Scrum pre-game

Session 8, 3/Mar Run project - Sprint 1+Sprint 2

Session 9, 3/Mar Lessons learned version1+presentation
Assignment 4 Lessons Learned

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Assignments
Assignment 1 Write a project vision and scope
Teamwork, delivered and presented during session 4, 21/Feb, 20% of
final grade

Assignment 2 Write a project plan

Teamwork, delivered and presented during session 6, 28/Feb, 20% of
final grade

Assignment 3 Scrum pre-game

Teamwork, delivered and presented during session 8, 3/Mar, 20% of
final grade

Assignment 4 Lessons learned

Individual work, executed before and during session 9 (1 hour),
presented during class, updated and delivered 8/Mar, 40% of final
grade

There will be no written exam

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Support
All material available at e-aulas.esec.pt (documents,
assignments, links, ...)
Communication between instructor and students, and
group discussions preferably using Forum at Moodle
Feedback to students through Moodle

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Bibliography
Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, Applied Software
Project Management, OReilly, 2006
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK Guide 4th Edition), Project Management
Institute, 2008
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th ed., Pearson
Education, 2011
Frank Tsui and Orlando Karam, Essentials of Software
Engineering, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007

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Grades 2012/2013
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2011-2014 Joo Cunha, DEIS-ISEC