Faculty of Technology Policy and Management

Group of Organization and Management Delft University of Technology

Wijnand Veeneman

Course: Project Management

3TU Master of Construction Management and Engineering

General introduction

• Focus• Project management for construction• Project management in the realization phase

• ECTS• 7,5

• Involved in development• Dr. S.H.S Al-Jibouri (UT), • Prof. dr. ir. J.W.M. Bertrand (TU/e), • Dr. W.W. Veeneman (TUD) /Marian Bosch

(TUD)

Objectives

• Understand project management tasks• Implement and work with

• planning methodologies, techniques and tools• control methodologies, techniques and tools

• Manage and coordinate teams • Understand the balance between

• costs • time • scope and • quality

Managing uncertainty through risk assessment

Topics

• The role of the project manager• Planning• Control• Coordination• Motivation

• Tools of the manager• Methodologies• Arrangements• Structure• Process

• Project management today

Material I

• General reader in two parts• Recent journal articles on project

management tasks• Estimation• Budget• Schedule• Tasks• Design

• Control• Construction specific articles

Material II

• Project management handbook• Project Management for Construction• Hendrickson or

• Project Management in Construction • Dennis Lock

• Project Management a Managerial Approach • Meredith and Mantell or

• Managing construction projects• Winch

• …

Approach

• Create involvement• Tiny tasks

• In classes• Individually

• Build reflection• Think tasks

• In between classes• Small groups

• Experience reality• Try tasks

• In stead of classes• Larger groups

Challenge

• From counting the leaves • Providing the list• And ticking the boxes

• To knowing the tree• Understanding the system• Linking the branches