Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: All OU students

Lecture hours: 1
Seminarium:1
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: none

Course Leader: Prof Dr. Kornélia Lazányi

Faculty: John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, 1034 Budapest, Bécsi út 96/b

Course Description:
Goal: The purpose of the course is to provide insight into business processes and operations. Students of the course will be able to structure, organize and manage projects across various functional fields and across organizational borders. They will also understand how to create, manage and control projects and project teams in cascade and scrum methodologies.
The course endeavours to create a basic understanding of business processes and their implications to IT. Students will get acquainted with various project management approaches and will learn how to join in the PDCA cycle of the business entity, as well as to define and achieve KPIs regarding their own contribution to business strategies. The course also entails a short intro into business communication with special emphasis on pitch.

Competences:
Project management, pitching

Topics:
1. Understanding the basics of the business concept
2. Developing a business concept
3. Planning an initiative
4. Creating an initiative
5. Defining and managing the scope of a project
6. Drafting the scope of a project
7. Project management approach
8. Identifying key stakeholders and their interests
9. Implementation
10. Developing a project workflow
11. Implementation II
12. Identifying milestones and checkpoints
13. Oral communication
14. Pitch, elevator pitch

Assessment: Written report on the business project – 70% of grade Pitch – 30% of grade

Exam Types:

Compulsory bibliography: Obligatory: Brewer, J. L., & Dittman, K. C. (2018). Methods of IT project management. Purdue University Press.

Recommended bibliography: Nelson, R. R. (2007). IT project management: Infamous failures, classic mistakes, and best practices. MIS Quarterly executive, 6(2).

Additional bibliography: Sauer, C., & Reich, B. H. (2009). Rethinking IT project management: Evidence of a new mindset and its implications. International Journal of Project Management, 27(2), 182-193. Pervoukhin, D. V., Isaev, E. A., Rytikov, G. O., Filyugina, E. K., & Hayrapetyan, D. A. (2020). Theoretical comparative analysis of cascading, iterative, and hybrid approaches to IT project life cycle management. Бизнес-информатика, 14(1 (eng)).

Additional Information: Requires group work