Topics

This module starts with an essential of all projects: meetings. There are big meetings, e.g., Joint Project Planning Sessions, which include all partners of a big project. And there are internal meetings within a working group.

A major task of the project manager is to recruit and organize his/her project team.

Once the project has started, the project manager has to monitor the project’s progress, identify deviations from the project plan, and – if necessary – to take controlling actions as a response to deviations.

Goals

In this module you will learn

• How to prepare, organize, and perform project meetings
• How to manage a project team
• How to monitor and control the project’s progress.

Readings

Required readings:

Textbook: Robert K. Wysocki (2009): Effective Project Management (fifth edition), Wiley Publishing

• Chapter 4, pp. 117-124
• Chapter 5, pp. 195-235
• Chapter 6

Additional readings:

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