Process- and project management

Department

Bachelor's program Environmental, Process & Energy Engineering

Course unit code

UVET_BA_5_10

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2.0

Name of lecturer(s)

Niederseer Corinna, BA

Mode of delivery

face-to-face

Recommended optional program components

none

Recommended or required reading

- Dumas, M 2013, Fundamentals of business process management, Springer, Berlin.
- Gadatsch, A 2010, Grundkurs Geschäftsprozess-Management : Methoden und Werkzeuge für die IT-Praxis: Eine Einführung für Studenten und Praktiker, Vieweg+Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden.
- Slack, N et. al. 2009, Operations and Process Management, Pearson, Harlow.
- Portny, SE 2010, Project Management for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Hoboken.
- PMI Project Management Institute 2013, A Guide to the Project Management Bode of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), 5th edition, Project Management Institute.
- Kerzner, H 2009, Project management : a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling, Wiley & Sons, Hoboken.
- Olfert, K 2010, Projektmanagement, Herne, Kiehl.
- Felkai, A & Beiderwieden, A 2015, Projektmanagement für technische Projekte : ein Leitfaden für Studium und Beruf, Springer Viehweg, Wiesbaden.
- Allweyer, T 2010, BPMN 2.0 : introduction to the Standard for Business Process Modeling, Norderstedt.
- pm baseline 4.0, www.p-m-a.at

Level of course unit

Bachelor

Year of study

Fall 2025

Semester when the course unit is delivered

5

Language of instruction

English

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course consists of two main parts: Project Management and Process Management

After the modules of the Project Management part, the students will be able to:
- understand the difference between processes and projects
- transform requirements of internal or external customers into a forward-oriented project plan
- address various needs, concerns, and expectations of stakeholders in planning and executing a project
- set up and carry out communications among stakeholders
- understand the balance between project constraints of scope, cost, time
- define a work breakdown structure (WBS) and derive a project schedule and costs
- identify, analyze and manage risks
- control a project in the execution phase
- understand a process landscape

After the modules of the Process Management part, the students will be able to:
- understand the standard process models and the classification of processes
- understand the generic process landscape of enterprises and how process oriented enterprises work
- understand the lifecycle of projects
- understand process characteristics in operational areas of enterprises
- understand how a supply chain is working
- understand what business process management and continuous improvement is
- map and analyze processes in various illustrations

Course contents

Characteristics of projects and programmes
Project proposal and project assignment
Systemic approaches to project management (project organisation, project context etc.)
The project management process (commissioning, start, coordination, controlling, discontinuities, completion, acceptance)
Methods and tools from project practice
Project communication and documentation
Change and quality management of projects
International standards in project management
Process definition and process orientation on organisations
Types and elements of processes Process mapping and analysis of actual processes (notations, standards etc.)
Design and representation of target processes
Options for process optimisation
Applied process management in practice
Supply chain management

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course comprises a mix of lectures, discussions and individual / group work - 70% of time are used for exercises in form of individual and group work

Work placement(s)

none