Course: Project Management

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Course Project Management

• 3TU
• Master of Construction Management and Engineering

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General introduction

• Focus
• Project management for construction
• Project management in the realization phase
• ECTS
• 7,5
• Involved in development
• Dr. S.H.S Al-Jibouri (UT),
• Prof. dr. ir. J.W.M. Bertrand (TU/e),
• Dr. W.W. Veeneman (TUD) /Marian Bosch (TUD)

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Objectives

• Understand project management tasks
• Implement and work with
• planning methodologies, techniques and tools
• control methodologies, techniques and tools
• Manage and coordinate teams
• Understand the balance between
• costs
• time
• scope and
• quality
• Managing uncertainty through risk assessment

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Topics

• The role of the project manager
• Planning
• Control
• Coordination
• Motivation
• Tools of the manager
• Methodologies
• Arrangements
• Structure
• Process
• Project management today

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Material I

• General reader in two parts
• Recent journal articles on project management
  tasks
• Estimation
• Budget
• Schedule
• Tasks
• Design
• Control
• Construction specific articles

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Material II

• Project management handbook
• Project Management for Construction
• Hendrickson or
• Project Management in Construction
• Dennis Lock
• Project Management a Managerial Approach
• Meredith and Mantell or
• Managing construction projects
• Winch

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Approach

• Create involvement
• Tiny tasks
• In classes
• Individually
• Build reflection
• Think tasks
• In between classes
• Small groups
• Experience reality
• Try tasks
• In stead of classes
• Larger groups

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Challenge

• From counting the leaves
• Providing the list
• And ticking the boxes
• To knowing the tree
• Understanding the system
• Linking the branches