1TS327 – Industrial Project

Management
Introduction

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Agenda
● Course procedures
● Introduction to project management

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 Teachers in the course

Simon Okwir
simon.okwir@angstrom.uu.se

Emil Ahlström
emil.ahlstrom@angstrom.uu.se

Marcus Lindahl
Marcus.Lindahl@angstrom.uu.se

Carl Anderson Kronlid

Carl.Kronlid@angstrom.uu.se

Håkan Kullvén
hakan.Kullven@angstrom.uu.se

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 What will you learn in this course

• To account for and explain theories

and tools used in the field of project
management

• To account for different types of

projects and their characteristics.

• To assess appropriate planning and

coordination methodology in relation
to the project’s scope and type

• To analyze projects and project

execution from the perspective of
different stakeholders within the
focal organization as well as external
stakeholders from other parts of
society
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Agenda
● Course procedures
● Introduction to project management

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 Course Literature

Tonnquist, Bo, Project management, Fifth

edition, Stockholm, Sanoma Utbildning, (2021)

Tonnqvist, Bo. (2016). Project management: A

Guide to the Theory and Practice of Project
Methodology and Agile Methods

Tonnqvist, Bo. (2012). Project Management:

A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Project,
Program and Portfolio Management and
Organizational Change

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Activity Date & Time Content & chapters to be covered Teacher/ Notes
Lecture 1 2023-08-29 Course introduction, Emil Ahlström
Pre-study, project goals Chapter 1-3 Simon Okwir
Lecture 2 2023-09-05 Understanding the stage gate model. Chapters 4-6 Emil Ahlström

Lecture 3 2023-09-06 More on pre-study; Understanding the stage gate model. Marcus Lindahl
Why do large corporations use stage gate?

Seminar 1 Parallel Pre- study seminar: Chapters 4-6 More details in

sessions: Canvas
Lecture 4 2023-09-18 Project planning & control tools Emil Ahlström
Project costing and control Chapter 3 – pages 213- 224risk
Chapters 3 7, 8 and 10
Lecture 5 2023-09-21 Project Based Organisation and the challenge of being a Marcus Lindahl
project manager
Lecture 6 2023-09-26 Guest Lecture Henrik Trygg
Visit from Tieto
Seminar 2 Parallel Planning and control; Chapter 4-6, 7-10 More details in
sessions: Canvas
Lecture 7 2023-10- 02 Project as a market organizing project Marcus Lindahl
Project execution and project leadership; Project Leadership
and Project closure: Chapters 4 12, 14, and 15

Lecture 8 2023- 10- 03 Wrap Up and how to prepare for exam Simon Okwir
Seminar 3 Parallel Final Seminar More details in
sessions: Canvas
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Online lecture by Häkan Kullvén in Canvas

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Guest Lecture

Henrik Trygg

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Seminars

Group assiments: 4 students only

● Once you form a group, a case will be assigned to you by
email. All groups are assigned a case within the next two
days from the first lecture.
There will be 3 deliverables for the seminars
– Pre- study report
– Planning report
– Final project report (presentation)

Please read the assignment instructions very carefully

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The seminars (2 credits)
● Before each seminar:
– Read the assigned material
– Discuss the case as a group and aim to come up with a
meaningful project report; submit the report according
the instructions for each seminar
● At each seminar:
– Show up on time, be prepared to share your findings
with other groups in your seminar.
– This is the active participation from which is necessary to
get the seminar points from your seminar instructor

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 Examination

● Assessment task 1: Final exam ( 3 credits)

– Written, individual
– All material in the course is covered (readings, lectures, etc)
● Assessment task 2: Continuous assessment ( 2 credits)
– Seminars: You need to show up on time, be prepared, and
actively participate to get the points
● Grade is based on final written exam at the end
● Assessment task 1 can be retaken in the exam period
● Assessment task 2 is recommended to be completed during the
course but can also be retaken also in the exam

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 Declaration of in scientific writing

Please see Disclosure Instructions

on the course website

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Cheating and plagiarism
Some notes that you should be aware of:
• It is never allowed to copy text directly from a source,
not even one sentence. If it is necessary for the work to
copy parts you must use quotation marks and refer to
the original source.

• You cannot use text from old assignments in other

courses unless your teacher explicitly informs you that it
is allowed. If you do this it is considered self-plagiarism
and will be reported.

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Agenda
● Course procedures
● Introduction to project management

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What is project management ?
“A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to
create a unique product, service or result” PMI project
definition

A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and

end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources.

Time, unique , Team specif, output

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 The iron triangle

Q ● Scope (quality): Describes

what should be delivered

● Schedule (time): Describes

when it should be delivered

● Resource (cost): Describes

the budget for making the
T delivery
R

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Variety of projects
● Product development projects

● Customer projects

● Marketing projects

● Event projects

● Organizational change projects

● Research Projects

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• Iconic building, a global
symbol of Australia

• Quality critical project

• Planned: 4 years, AUS $7
million
• Reality: 14 years, AUS
$102 million

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 Project goal Vs Impact goal

● The project goals

• Sub-goals or Milestones
• Deliverbles
• Must be measurable/SMART
• Accepted by project owner

● The impact goal

• Bussiness value
• Long term effects
• Responsibility of the project owner

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Some examples of project goals

● Install small wind turbines along freeways

● Perform training of qualified nurses before the end of
the year

Some examples of Impact goals

● Decrease the number of animal accidents on highways
● Gain more market share and thus double sales in the
B2B segment

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“S.M.A.R.T” Principle

● Specific: must be clearly formulated

● Measurable: must be possible to measure whether the goal has

been reached

● Accepted:must have the support of all concerned parties

● Realistic:must be possible to fulfil with the resources available

● Timed:must be fulfilled within a specific time-frame

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 Stakeholders affecting the project

Mazda MX5 was:

• Designed in California
• Financed in Tokyo & New York
• Tested in the UK
• Assembled in Michigan & Mexico
using components designed in
US and made in Japan.

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 Project roles

Governing & monitoring Supporting

Project owner
Steering committee
Resource owner

Organizing & Managing Reference group

Project manager
Project Management committee
Quality Manager

Executing
Communicator
Project group

See page 25 for organizational structures

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 Stage gate model

idea Pre-study Planning Execution closure impact

Creating the group Managing the team Phasing out the team

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Lecture 1- Summary
• Projects are Temporary Organizations

• Types of projects

• The difference between project goals vs impact goal

• Different Project roles

• Stage model/ methodology

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