TDDD29 IT-Project Management

Examination

The examination of this course is divided into three parts: Seminars 2 ECTS, Project 2 ECTS, and Poster 2 ECTS (source, LiTH Study Guide).

The course is based on lectures, seminars, supervision and a project. The project is developed in groups where the student studies and analyzes issues related to management of IT-projects, organizational changes and the importance of IT-based innovations for the selected project. The students are requested to present the results of their studies in a poster session at the end of the course.

Seminars: Individual reflective report

During each seminar students are requested to analyze and discuss the litterature. At seminar one to five, each student hands in - in paper form - a short report (essay) to the course assistant written in english. Hence, the student will hand in five reports, total in the course. The report should adress the following:

• Main topics presented in the litterature,
• The main pros and cons of the approaches presented in the book,
• Your own reflections on the topic (criticize and be constructive).

Important note: Two A4 pages is the maximum text space allowed for each reflective report. Minimum is one A4 page. Use Times or similar 11-point font. State your name, student-id, and e-mail address etc clearly in the top header.

Project: Project plan

A group of 6-7 students (same groups as seminar groups) will work on different project topics. In this part of the course, each group will implement their gained knowledge from the topics that have been discussed during the seminars. Several supervision meetings during the lessons (LE) will be held by the course leader and assistant to help the groups and to monitor their progress.

Each group will present the final result in terms of a Project plan. The projct plan is handed - in paper form - to the examiner May 24 at the latest. The report shall demonstrate that you have gained theoretical and practical knowledge, that you can put theory into practice by writting a project plan. The final report should follow a general Project Management Plan template. Below is a project management plan template that can give you guidence for the Project plan:

Project Management Plan Template (PDF)

Project Management Plan Template (Word)

Feel free to modify the template according to your projects needs. The template has been tailored from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard for Software Project Management Plans, IEEE Std 1058-1998.

OBS!!! You will work on teams, and all text in the final report must be authorized by the whole working group!

Poster

Every group have to develop a poster, which summarize the project work (use the project report as your inputs), and presents it during the project and poster presentation May 22. This poster task will help students to develop their presentation skills, be presenting only the most important issues, within a limited time and space.

Poster examples:
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3
• Example 4
• Example 5

Grading

Seminar grading

The grading for the seminars is U (not approved ) and G (approved). To get approved on the seminar you need to hand in your Individual reflective report on each seminar and attend all seminars. It is OK to miss out on one of these five seminars. However, you will then get an additional assigment by your seminar leader. If you miss two of the four seminars you will not be approved on this part of the course and, hence, will not be able to get a final grade. There is no way to get two missed seminars approved, no extra assignments will be given.

Project grading

The project plan is evaluted and graded by the course examiner in relation to the course aim and course book. Possible grades are U (not approved), 3, 4 and 5. The project plan will get Grade 3 if it shows a plan that have the main componenets needed to approach the problem you work with in your specific project. The plan shall present the main goals of the project, success criteria, targets, WBS (Gantt charts) project methodologies, deliverables and managament constructions. Grade 4 is given to a project plan that include more detail; it shall provide budget calculations (for example based on WBS),and include a risk analysis. Grade 5 is given to a project plan that has a plausable contigency plan included. This contingency plan should relate to the risk assassment and risk analysis and provide WBS and cost calculations.

The project shall be seen as collaborative work. However, it is possible for the individual student to get a higher grade on the project. To get a higher grade the individual student shall show that he/she has been reponsible and worked on a specific part of the project plan (in addition to the regular teamwork). Hence, this part of the project plan shall be marked with students name and student id. The grades are 3, 4 and 5 and evaluted based on the difficulty of the specific task and based on the course goals (see the LiTH Study Guide). The individual student must discuss and cordinate with the team if they want to go for a higher grade. IMPORTANT: Students that go for the higher grade project path must naturally contribute to the rest of the project plan, not just work on thier own part.

Poster grading

Your poster and presentation will get Grade 3 if the presentation and poster clearly presents the main goals of the project, success criteria, targets, project methodologies, deliverables and managament contructions. Grade 4 will be given a poster and presentation that include the above and add detailed represtations of the project phases (WBS) including calculations of the amount of work needed in the diffrent work packages. Morover, the poster shall provide basic budget calculations (based on WBS), include a basic risk analysis section and reflect on the pros and cons of the choosen methods and approaches. Grade 5 is given to a poster and presentation that include the above and add deeper reflection on the choosen approaches in terms of references to theory and litterature on project management in general.

Final course grades

The final grades are calculated accoring to the following:

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