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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES
ESC Montpellier Course Syllabi
Project Management (IMP312ESC)
GSCM – Montpellier Business School – ESC Programme course syllabus - 20082009
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT (IMP312ESC)
COURSE PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
The primary objective of this course is to expose the students to issues involved in project management. Every organization uses projects, to
manage its own activity or to work with business partners: new product launching, good production, consulting mission, IT implementation
project, non governmental organization missions, building, etc. The course gives students a useful technical and theoretical background to help
them to analyse and plan a project. To enhance students’ professional capabilities and to prepare them for their future manager role, another
objective of this course is to give them an understanding of the dynamic of the team in the specific context of a project. Thus, this course will
contribute to develop students’ awareness and communication skills needed to manage a team, but also to explain and defend their decision.
Finally, they are expected to implement a self-learning process that will contribute to their autonomy in updating their knowledge for the future.
Course Contribution to understanding and applying project management techniques
The course includes a comprehensive presentation of the main concepts, theories and models that explain project management activities,
techniques, tools and risks. These theoretical elements are discussed in class and supported by relevant examples, taken either from the
specialised academic and professional literature, or from the personal experience of the teaching staff. The approach adopted encourages
students to critically evaluate the existing theories and practices, to question their applicability and to identify the best areas of applications.
This course is completed by several individual and collective exercises, but also case studies.
Course Contribution to development of team management and collective behaviour
The capabilities to effectively work in teams and to communicate during the working process are essential skills for future managers. The
pedagogical approach adopted in this course encourages students to participate with their opinions, experience and comments to the
discussions developed around practical Examples, simulations and case studies. On the other hand, by using a team project (whole project
building) as one of the main forms of assessment, the course determines the students to develop their interpersonal communication skills, to
debate and negotiate ideas and decisions during their group work.
Course Contribution to development of effectiveness in written communication
This course also aims to improve written communication abilities of the students, by working in groups for several case studies and the team
project. Students are asked to prepare a whole project with a final report. By this way, written communication, developed during their course
work and evaluation, is reinforced.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will combine the presentation of techniques, theoretical concepts and models with practical exercises and case studies, in order to
familiarise students both with the theoretical and practical aspects of project management. The course comprises the following themes:
Aims and concepts of project management. Planning techniques. Tools for planning, adjustment and control. The project in the organization.
Introduction to project-risk management. Skills and roles of a project manager. Project-team management.
COURSE MATERIAL
Students have access to the e-learning platform to download and prepare the courses and the slides presented in class and to prepare the
homework due for each session. They can access an electronic forum to ask questions and receive answers from the professor.
Students also have access to the online library to read the textbooks or chapter due for each session.
They benefit from additional information available on line and in the library.
The main material used in this course is the following:
- The slides presented and discussed in class are available in a digital format, on the e-learning platform
- The textbooks: The textbooks are available on the online library service Cyberlibris, to which the students have access through the
school website. A number of chapters have to read in advance for each class session and selected case studies have to be read and
prepared for the final Exam.
o - « Le management de projet », Gilles GAREL, Editions La Découverte, Cyberlibris
o - « Faire face aux risques de vos projets », Gérard HERMIAUX, INSEP Consulting Editions, Cyberlibris
o - « Le guide du chef de projet », Tanguy LE DANTEC, Maxima, Cyberlibris
- Additional materials
o The case studies developed for team projects.
o Some academic and professional papers published online or in economic journals can also be used by students to obtain
additional information about some applications or concepts.