The aim of this lecture is to give an overview about the relevant aspects of planning and executing projects in the area of software development to the students.

The lecture's theoretical part will be held as a presentation, which in the very beginning deals with an introduction into project management as a whole. Furthermore a project s characteristics will be explained as well as the involved actor s duties and responsibilities. In succession the lecture will deal with the following branches of project management:

• Integration Management,
• Scope Management,
• Time Management,
• Cost Management,
• Quality Management,
• Human Resource Management,
• Communications Management,
• Risk Management and
• Procurement Management.

Especially Cost, Risk and Quality Management will be presented in detail. Moreover various valuable project management techniques will be demonstrated, which are regularly used in practice. The lecture s practical part, which is composed of three separate exercises, has to be edited in groups of four students. The first exercise is to write a composition about a special project management topic to be defined by the lecture management. The second and third exercise will deal with practical project management techniques introduced in the theoretical part. The solutions of all exercises have to be firstly submitted to the lecture management via e-mail and secondly presented in a submission conversation. To conclude the lecture both the theoretical and the practical part have to be passed positively.

ECTS Breakdown (effort for student):

• Preliminary talk: 1 h
• Lectures: 12 h
• Lab 1 (16 h):
• Research: 5 h
• Writing the composition: 10 h
• Submission conversation: 1 h
• Lab 2 (21 h):
• Preparation: 5 h
• Exercises: 15 h
• Submission conversation: 1 h
• Lab 3 (14 h):
• Preparation: 3 h
• Exercises: 10 h
• Submission conversation: 1 h
• Learning for Exams: 9 h
• Exam: 2 h

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Total: 75 hours (3 ECTS)