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2021/2022 KAN-CMIBO1036U Project Management and Product Development
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| Project Management and Product Development |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Mandatory |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Quarter |
| Start time of the course | Autumn, Second Quarter |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Last updated on 25-06-2021 | |
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Project management has become an increasingly relevant form of organizing for innovation activities such as the development of products, services, or business models, which are core to the success of businesses. Yet, successful project management requires specific competencies and skills, with some sources even claiming that the strategy of a firm is the effect of projects successfully implemented within the organization. The course aims to provide students with analytical tools and capabilities that will allow them to examine the challenges and opportunities of developing products and managing projects in a complex, uncertain, and ambiguous world, and familiarize students with state-of-the-art practices of project management and product development, such as stakeholder management, waterfall vs. agile, design thinking or design sprints.
The course design is developed with the learning objectives in mind: The course starts with a Kickoff Day, where the focus is to create a common baseline and to gain some first-hand experiences. We will present the course aim, structure and learning objectives. We aim to create a common understanding, a baseline, through lectures and exercise of what project management and product development are. How does ‘best practice’ suggest we shall plan and manage projects? What does product development involves and how does it relates to project management? We will conduct several practical exercises where the students will start planning their own course-work group project using ‘best practice’ as well as exercises of solving complex problems with design thinking. In the course-work project, the students will analyze a real-life case from a partnering organization, which will be presented during the Introduction Day. The students shall develop a research question related to the course curriculum based on this empirical case and analyze this research question using the literature presented for them during the course. The outcome of this course-work group project is the final report submitted on digital exam. This report will provide the foundation for the discussion in the following oral exam.
After the Kickoff Day, we will be ready to dive further into the theoretical approaches, concepts, and theories to help us become critical thinkers of project management approaches and the challenges we face when developing products using projects. Every week we will explore a new theme, starting with an online lecture, followed by an in-class exercise. Besides this, we will have two feedback sessions on your progress of the course-work group project, one with teacher feedback and one with peer-review feedback and final remarks from the teachers. |
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| The pedagogical approach aims at advancing the
students learning and competence development in the areas of
project management and product development using a mix of five main
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• Online lectures will provide students with the theoretical background which they can study at their own pace • Theoretical exercises will support the students learning of the theoretical concepts presented • Case exercises to connect theory to cases will improve the reflexivity of projects and product development in different settings as well as the limitations of theories • Practical hands-on tool-based exercises will give the students some experience of what it means to develop products and manage a project • Feedback on own written work will advance the final report and stimulate learning processes in relation to the course content |
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| This course involves continuous opportunities for feedback through weekly exercise classes, where the teachers will be present and explain, discuss, and probe the students to advance their learning. Besides this, we have two feedback sessions where each group will get the opportunity to get individual feedback on their progress on the final report. The first feedback session involves a teacher to group feedback session. The second, a peer-review feedback session where the students will sit in clusters of three groups, where each group will prepare feedback for two other groups. The aim is to facilitate learning-by-doing (i.e. force you to produce text for your final report), learning by observing (i.e. see how other groups have solved the task) and learning by explaining and reflecting (i.e. help others to flourish as you learn a lot by explaining, discussing and challenging others and yourself). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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You will find more information on all course activities on Canvas. |
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