Project Management has become an increasingly relevant form of organizing key business processes such as product development. Yet, Project Management also increasingly requires its own particular competences. The course aims to provide participants with analytical tools and capabilities that will allow them to comprehensively examine the challenges of managing projects.

The course develops the theme of Project Management by contrasting different theoretical approaches, challenges, methods, management tools. Product Development of all types (including infrastructure, building, goods and services etc) is regarded as a type of project, which will be given special attention, but other types of projects will covered as well. Specifically, a contemporary, decisive, and business-oriented approach to project management is contrasted with advanced research on the relationship between project management and modern organizations.

The course will thus shift between a business-oriented perspective on project management, as expressed e.g. in the Project Management Book of Knowledge, and advanced research such as e.g. the Scandinavian school of Project Management, enabling the participants to both understand and go beyond best practice / “how to” prevalent among practitioners of project management.