Code

ΠΔ-330

Semester

2nd

ECTS

7,5

E-Services

Lefkippos

Category

Obligatory

Instructors

G. Vassilakopoulos

Α. Μenychtas

Objective

Digital project management is the core structure for planning and orchestrating the construction of digital technology projects, just as it is for any technology project. The management of a digital project refers to various phases and individual issues to be addressed with the ultimate goal of developing and operationalizing the project product (i.e., a digital system). Phases such as the initial economic and technical study of the project, the selection of the development process of the digital system (project product), the supervision (monitoring and control) of the construction of the project regarding the quality and progress of the physical object, the realization and commissioning of the digital system, as well as individual issues regarding staffing, costing, scheduling and the evaluation and control of project risks are included in the field of project management (especially digital projects). The course covers in depth the basic concepts of digital project management and focuses on the detailed description and use of digital project management best practices included in the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) of the Project Management Institute – PMI) of the US. The main objective of the course is to provide students with the skills required to manage digital technology projects.

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

  • design the economic and technical study of an information system
  • develop an IT project management strategy
  • analyze and evaluate costs and performance in developing an IT project

Learning outcomes

  • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
  • Adapting to new situations
  • Decision-making
  • Team work
  • Working in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Project planning and management
  • Criticism and self-criticism
  • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

Syllabus

  • Characteristics of Digital Works

    Success and failure of digital projects. Basic principles of project management. Digital project life cycles and digital systems development life cycles.

  • Conception and Launch of Digital Projects

    Digital project management methodology (eg phases, deliverables, PMI project management processes). Development of business plans (e.g. measurable organizational value, feasibility study, risk analysis, cost-benefit study, financial performance measurement models).

  • Digital Projects Portfolio Creation Process

    Project portfolio management (eg measuring organizational performance with the Balanced Scorecard metric).

  • Programming and Object Management of Digital Projects

    Construction of charter and project management plan. Project management processes by PMI (project management knowledge areas and process groups). Project object management processes (eg initiation, definition, verification and control and monitoring processes).

  • Task Analysis Structure and Digital Project Estimates

    Task Breakdown Structure Development Process. Duration and resource consumption estimation methods (eg top-down method, bottom-up method, guess estimating method, Delphi method). Software technology metrics and approaches (eg Function Point Analysis, COCOMO).

  • Digital Project Timeline Development

    Techniques and tools for project schedule estimation. Gantt charts. Network diagrams. CPM/PERT critical path method. Resource allocation and balancing.

  • Control and Monitoring of Digital Projects

    Project performance analysis (eg variance analysis, value generated). Monitoring project performance indicators (eg SPI, CPI). Project completion forecast (eg projected project completion cost and projected cost to completion).

  • Managing Participation, Teamwork, Change and Conflict

    Participatory management involving user groups. Project management teams. The group formation approach. Intergroup problem solving technique. Developing a strategy for change. Consequences and conflict resolution.

  • Cloud Computing Project Management

    Characteristics of cloud computing. Choosing suitable cloud providers. Service Level Agreements. Danger management.

  • Big Data Analytics Project Management

    Challenges in managing big data projects. Business value metrics of big data analytics. Initiate, plan, implement and monitor big data analytics projects. Success factors of big data projects.

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