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Presentation
Presentation
The course provides the conceptual, methodological and instrumental foundations of project management, applied to software and information systems projects. Organisations deliver their strategy through projects, yet a significant proportion of these fail in schedule, cost, scope or value. It is from this starting point that the course develops the ability to plan, execute, monitor and close projects on a well-founded basis. It adopts the PMBOK Guide of the Project Management Institute as its structuring reference, making its recent evolution explicit and placing it among international references such as SWEBOK, the ISO 21502 standard and the PRINCE2 method. It articulates predictive, adaptive and hybrid approaches, recognising that the relevant competence is to select and tailor the approach to the context. The practice component is based on Project-Based Learning: working in groups, students plan and control a project, producing the management artefacts, with a free choice of tools.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 6
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
2 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULP452-7428
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
1. Foundations: project, programme and portfolio. Value and success. 2. References: PMBOK (6th-8th ed.), SWEBOK v4, ISO 21502, PRINCE2. 3. Organisational context, PMO, governance and life cycle. 4. Predictive, adaptive and hybrid approaches. Tailoring. 5. Processes, knowledge areas and cross-cutting artefacts. 6. Initiating: project charter and stakeholders. 7. Scope: requirements, scope statement, WBS and dictionary. 8. Schedule: dependencies, estimating, critical path and compression. 9. Costs: estimating, time-phased budgeting and cost baseline. 10. Quality, resources and communications. Responsibility matrix. 11. Risks: identification, analysis, responses and escalation. 12. Procurement, stakeholder engagement and the integrated plan. 13. Executing: directing work, team, quality and procurement. 14. Monitoring and controlling: variances, changes and status reporting. 15. Closing: lessons learned and benefits. 16. Agile and hybrid: Scrum, Kanban, metrics and governance.
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Objectives
Objectives
Explain the concepts of project, programme and portfolio, the life cycle and organisational influences, and distinguish predictive, adaptive and hybrid approaches (Obj. 1). Produce the integrated plan of a project - charter, stakeholders, WBS, schedule, budget, risks and communications - consistent across scope, time and cost (Obj. 2; Comp. 1). Apply estimating and critical path techniques and measure progress against baselines, interpreting variances to support decisions (Obj. 2; Comp. 2). Manage a project according to the PMBOK Guide and justify the degree of tailoring to the context (Obj. 3; Comp. 3). Plan iterative delivery using Scrum and justify the choice of a predictive, agile or hybrid approach (Obj. 3). Assess performance by value and benefits realised, and communicate and orally defend management decisions, using digital tools ethically (Comp. 1; Comp. 2; Comp. 3).
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Teaching methodologies
Teaching methodologies
The course combines complementary methods, progressing from conceptual knowledge to autonomous application: M1 Expository: conceptual and methodological foundations, with materials provided in advance. M2 Interrogative: directed questioning, with comprehension and application questions. M3 Demonstrative: examples of application in business contexts, using real artefacts. M4 Case method: analysis of concrete situations and alternative decisions. M5 Active: group work, peer discussion and oral presentation. M6 Project-Based Learning: in groups, students plan and control a project throughout the semester, with teacher feedback in every session. The choice of tools is free: what is assessed is the quality and coherence of the artefacts, not mastery of a specific product. GenAI is authorised only as support for information search and language revision, with declared use; it is not authorised to produce the artefacts or the decisions behind them.
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References
References
Project Management Institute. (2025). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK(r) guide) (8th ed.) and The standard for project management. Project Management Institute. Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK(r) guide) (6th ed.). Project Management Institute. Washizaki, H. (Ed.). (2024). Guide to the software engineering body of knowledge (SWEBOK guide) (Version 4.0). IEEE Computer Society. Kerzner, H. (2022). Project management: A systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling (13th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. Schwaber, K., & Sutherland, J. (2020). The Scrum Guide: The definitive guide to Scrum. https://scrumguides.org
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Assessment
Assessment
Descrição dos instrumentos de avaliação (individuais e de grupo) ¿ testes, trabalhos práticos, relatórios, projetos... respetivas datas de entrega/apresentação... e ponderação na nota final.
Exemplo:
Descrição
Data limite
Ponderação
1ª prova escrita
semana 8
25%
2ª prova escrita Última semana
25%
Relatório de grupo Semana 14 25% Apresentação e discussão
Semana 15 25%
As provas escritas são individuais, presenciais e sem consulta. A 1.ª prova, na semana 8, abrange as aulas 1 a 7. A 2.ª prova, na última semana, toda a matéria. Avalia-se o raciocínio fundamentado, não a reprodução de listagens.
O trabalho de grupo, até cinco estudantes, decorre nas sessões práticas: planeamento e controlo simulado de um projeto, com os artefactos fixados no caderno de encargos. Avalia-se a correção técnica, a coerência entre âmbito, cronograma e custo e a fundamentação das opções. A apresentação oral é classificada individualmente.
Os estudantes com estatuto especial (Trabalhador-Estudante, Atletas, Dirigentes Associativos) podem optar por avaliação final, solicitando-a por email ao Regente da UC nas primeiras duas semanas de aula.
A aprovação exige classificação final igual ou superior a 10 valores.
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Mobility
Mobility
No
