Teacher

prof. Stefano TONCHIA

Credits

6 CFU

Language

Italian

Objectives

This course is intended to provide the key elements of Project Management: principles and applications of Project Management, organizational structures, role of the project manager, human resources management and the project communication, monitoring of project time, costs, investments, and the processes and technologies to support Project Management.

Acquired skills

- To know basic principles, method and techniques of Project Management.
- To analyse customer requirements.
- To be able to plan a project according to its variables.
- To be able to control the advancement of a project.
- To integrate more project in a Multi-Project Management perspective.
- To manage a product development process.
- To manage an engineering-to-order contract.

Lectures and exercises (topics and specific content)

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PHASES, STRATEGIES, PERFORMANCES (12 hours).
The firm and the projects; operations and Project Management; Company-Wide Project Management (CWPM); a systemic approach: the Breakdown Structures. Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Work Packages; variables’ planning & control; sources of innovation; design phases; design strategies; project and multi-project performances; design and ISO 9000 standards.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT (6 hours).
Time representation: Gantt and network diagrams; network techniques: CPM, MPM, PERT, GERT, VERT; the Critical Path Method (CPM): task scheduling and float analysis.

PROJECT RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATION (8 hours).
Organisational structure for Project Management; CWPM integration; the project manager role; responsibility matrix and conflict management; team working.

MULTI-PROJECT MANAGEMENT (4 hours).
Project portfolio management and resource sharing; project risk management; product platform, derivatives, shelf innovation.

PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT (10 hours).
Cost Estimating and project Activity-Based Costing (ABC); Cost Budgeting: Project Budget Breakdown Structure (PBBS), Baseline, Cost Accounts, CSC system criteria; Cost Control: Earned Value Method (EVM); Capital Budgeting: the project as an investment; investiment analysis & evaluation; project portfolio evaluation.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (6 hours).
New Product Development (NPD) and Lean Design; Co-Design and Early Supplier Involvement; Variety Reduction Program (VRP) and Modularisation; design for manufacturability & assembly; concurrent/simultaneous engineering and Rapid/Virtual Prototyping (RP/VP); Reverse Engineering (RE): Design Of Experiments (DOE), Early Problem Detector Prototyping (EPDP), Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA); Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Robust Design (RD) and Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE); Green and Life-Cycle Design; Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) for Project Management and Product Development.

CONTRACT MANAGEMENT / ENGINEERING-TO-ORDER (4 hours).
Types of contracts; characteristics and phases of Engineering-To-Order (ETO) contracts; organisation and management of the ETO contracts; project financing; ETO production management.

LABS (4 hours).
TUTORIALS/SEMINARS (6 hours).

References

- Tonchia S., “Industrial Project Management”, Springer, Berlin & New York, 2008

Type of exam

Written and oral

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