IB460C - Business strategy and IT-projects
Requirements
- 60 hp Computer and Systems Sciences
- IB940B Project Management 7,5 hp
Syllabus
- IT project's role in business and organization
- Common models for strategic work in an organization
- IT strategy and the parts that are realized through IT projects
- Selection and prioritization of projects
- Various types of IT project and their impact on project management
- Program, portfolio management, project office
- Setting up a successful project from the management point of view
- To achieve power goals
Aim
After completing the course, students should be able to understand:
- The relationship between organizational strategy and its impact on the choice of priorities and the monitoring of IT projects
- How an IT strategy created from the business strategy
- Known analytical methods used as tools designed for the creation of strategies
- Categorizing iT projects and their characteristics
- Differences from a project management perspective on various iT projects
- Success factors for the most common types of iT projects
- Understand why it is important and difficult to select the right projects in an organization
- various methods are used to select and rank project in a portfolio.
- A project office, service and features
- Ensure effectiveness objectives and the value of project delivery
- Monitor project portfolio
After completing the course, students should be able to:
- How different business strategies affect the selection and prioritization of projects
- What characterizes a successful IT project from an organizational perspective
- Various stakeholders responsible for the project outputs and their power in the organization
- The basics of how to choose the right type of project for different needs
- Different requirements for the project depending on the project type
- Different requirements for the project in small respectively. large projects
- Methods and tools for measurement, computation, and prioritization of projects
- Business Case, techniques for use
- Models for evaluation of project value and impact goals
Outline
The course is given as a distance course. The course is given in english.