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SHORT BIO: Paulo Faroleiro is a project management professional with experience as project
manager and as project auditor. With experience in highly complex IT projects, acted as project
manager, project director and project auditor in national and international projects with overall
budgets over 10M, with large teams, multiple vendors and exclusive security requisites.
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As project auditor, Paulo Faroleiro has been involved auditing projects at large organizations like IT,
Aerospace, Automobile, Foods and Beverages, Logistics, Banking, TELCO industries and Air Traffic
Control under different certification schemes where Project Management methodologies are
mapped into specific Management Systems associated with certifications schemes like ISO 9001, ISO
27001, ISO 20000 to provide them sustainable delivery mechanisms.
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OFFICE HOURS: available during working hours, room 207, 2nd floor
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Time Planning schedule management; dependencies; lags and leads; critical path;
duration estimates; (optional: schedule compression; resource leveling; PERT
analysis);
Cost Planning cost management; estimate costs; cost types; estimation methods;
estimation precision; learning curve; life cycle costing; cost budgeting
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Some of these subjects will be presented by students due to the specific case topic and will
be used to motivate class discussion
2. LEARNING GOALS
A. Knowledge and Understanding
Key project management processes
B. Subject-Specific Skills
Key project management techniques
C. General Skills
Stakeholder management, generating buy-in, conflict management, Risk Management
3. COURSE STRUCTURE
The curricular unit is organized in 6 Learning Units (LU):
1. Information on Projects
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Scope management
Time management
Organization and communication management
Cost Management
Quality and Risk management
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Practical exercises are focused on project plan preparation, based on case studies.
After each programed delivery, each group does a brief presentation, receiving later a
delivery feedback.
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5. ASSESSMENT
The final grade will be determined by the performance in the following areas:
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(Average of the best 75% presented cases out of the overall presented cases)
b. Case presentation (10%) (check bellow)
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In the beginning of each class, a group will make a presentation of the case-study for that
class (there will be a case schedule for the full trimester).
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All groups need to be prepared to present and must submit their case answers through
Moodle before the start of the class.
Your case group answers can have up to 6000 characters (including spaces, not including
references). You will receive general feedback. You should keep the case questions in mind,
but you are encouraged to make further research and use different information sources.
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For the groups presenting, the overall quality of the presentation, communication style and
interaction with classmates will be considered regarding the grade.
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Groups can be made up to 5 students and a minimum of 3. Groups will be defined by the
Professor (to be rechecked depending on the number of enrolled students).
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