COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YBS 2004 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Management Information Systems

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR VAHAP TECIM

Offered to

Management Information Systems

Course Objective

The course aims to teach how to design and how to apply a project. In this course, each student will work on a project and they will have experience to prepare and execute a project. Every week, students will explain the process of their own project. Discussions in the course will help to students developing their projects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Investigating and designing a project.
2   Creating processes of the project.
3   Learning skills of using software for implementing the project.
4   Executing the project and evaluating the data.
5   Preparing the project by combining different ideas and by putting forward new ideas.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic Concepts: Project, Project Management
2 Project Management Process
3 Team, Management and Organization
4 Uncertainty, Risk and Unexpectations
5 Project Planning
6 Network Based Project Management System
7 Project Organization and Management Structure
8 Mid-Term
9 Mid-Term
10 CPM, PERT, Project Acceleration, PERT Cost Evaluation
11 Stages of Project Management Application
12 Investment Decisions, Completion of Project
13 Decision Making in Project Management
14 Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Textbook: Proje Yönetimi, I. Mete Doğruer
Şebeke Bazlı Bilgisayar Destekli Proje Yönetimi, Prof. Dr. Fikret Keskinel
Help book: Project Management for Information Systems (5th Edition); James Cadle; 2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities are given in detail in the Assessment Methods and Total Workload sections.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Students will undergo two exams, one mid-term and one final.

Assessment Criteria

Assessment criteria will be announced later.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The rules applied by the department are valid.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Contact details will be announced later

Office Hours

Office hours will be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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