Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Ismo Hänninen, Marko Hännikäinen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1, 2 : Friday 12 - 14, TB216 Per 2, 3, 4 : Friday 12 - 14, TB215 Per 3, 4, 5 : Friday 12 - 14, TC427

Requirements

Active participation to the seminars, at least two seminar presentations, student project implementation and reporting as a group work
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The course prepares to carry out a project successfully as a part of a project team and independently. The course familiarizes the responsibilities of a project manager and a team member. The course teaches project planning and documentation, and contains communication and negotiation tasks with different interest groups, project meetings, project presentations, etc.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Lectures define a project and present the nature of project work, project organizations, agreements, and project management.
2.	Project planning, status reporting, final reports.	Templates for project reports.
3.	Practical project group establishment, topic negotiations, client meeting, continuous project management.	Project management tools.
4.	The technical content of the selected project topic, pre-study on the topic, applying existing tools, implementations, and methods to produce project results.
5.	Disseminating project results, writing project documentation and technical reports, preparing presentations.

Evaluation criteria for the course

The number of credit points depends on the extent of technical topic, and the workload of project reporting and management.

Assessment scale:

Evaluation scale passed/failed will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides	Lecture sllides	Marko Hännikäinen			Course homepages and paper copies		Suomi

Prerequisites

Additional information about prerequisites
Course is recommended before M.Sc. thesis work.

Correspondence of content

Additional information

Compulsory for students majoring in one of the advanced modules provided by the Department of Computer Systems. Number of credits depends on the project size. Course starts in Period 1 with compulsory lectures. A student group can start the actual project implementation later during the academic year.

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Seminars consists both lectures and student presentations.	Lectures Seminar work Laboratory assignments	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	05.05.2009
Modifier	Olli Vainio