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Project Management at

German Universities

Prof. Dr. Harald Wehnes

Online-conference “The state of project management

in universities” – IPMA SmarterU SIG, November 9, 2020


Prof. Dr. Harald Wehnes

I Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg

Institute of Computer Science

I GPM

- 2012 – 2015: Member of the Executive board, resort „education“

- 2014 – 2019: Manger of the program committee „PM Forum“

(annual congress with > 1 000 participants)

- Since 2014: Leader of the SIG „Project Management at Universities“

Universities

Practical experience

New theories and methods

Business Career (IT, Health Care) Management positions / project portfolio management: research center, universities, industry

Volunteer & Consultant


Agenda

I Overview: Courses, study programs, trends

I SIG "PM at universities" and its activities

I PM lectures – online

I Portfolio management for university administration projects

I Modern PM in research


Project Management plays an important role


Wide range of courses and studies in PM

Lecture with PM

with exercises with projectsLecture PM

Special Lecture PM with exercises with projects

Study program (i.e. Master of PM)

Lecture PM

Special Lecture PM1

with exercises with projects

with exercises with projects

„PM Canon“

Special Lecture PMn

Trends

▪ PM in all fields of study

▪ Lectures and Study

Programs in English

▪ International PM

▪ Student projects with

external stakeholder

Traditional

PM

Traditional PM

Agile PM

Hybrid PM


SIG „Project Management at Universities“

2014: (Re-)Start of the SIG

I 10 members

2020:

I 350 members

from 130 universities

I Largest PM network

of German-speaking

Universities


SIG Motto: „Give & Take“

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Membership Development

Sharing Experience

Sharing of slide sets, case

studies, handouts, exercises,

templates, tools etc.

Networking

Collaboration: Writing books

and publications together

Implementation and

publication of joint studies

Social Events


SIG Websites

http://pm-planspiele.de/

https://gpm-hochschulen.de/

https://www.gpm-

ipma.de/know_how/fachgruppen/branchenfokussierende

_fachgruppen/projektmanagement_an_hochschulen.htmlserious PM games

http://pm-planspiele.de/

https://gpm-hochschulen.de/

https://www.gpm-ipma.de/know_how/fachgruppen/branchenfokussierende_fachgruppen/projektmanagement_an_hochschulen.html


SIG Activities in 2020

I

I Conference „Project Management at Universities“,

February 20 – 21, 2020, Munich University of Applied Sciences

20 speaker and > 50 participants from 4 nations

I 6 Online-Video-Conferences about „Online Lectures“ (30 – 70 participants)

I Online Conference „Project Management at Universities“

July 09 – 10, 2020,

20 speaker and > 50 participants

I Online Conference „Project Management at Universities“

November 24, 2020

Exploratory Symposium

Re-Inventing Project Management in Research

February 13 – 14, 2020


PM Lectures – online

I Initial situation (March 2020): great uncertainty, no / little experience

I March 20, 2020: 1st exchange of experiences with 70 participants

- 10 working groups on special topics: Tips & Tricks, didactic methods, team projects, tools,

games, case studies, data security, hybrid teaching, exams etc.

- Instructions for professors and students

I 6 follow-up exchanges

I Actual focus:

- attractive and exciting online teaching with data protection compliant tools

- “best practices” of online teaching

- articles for journals


Use of project management at universities

I Working group with staff from university PMOs

I White Paper: Success factors for controlling complex project landscapes

at universities and their administrations – with case studies


Project Management in Research

I Traditional PM is contra-productive for

research projects

I Experiment: Exploratory Symposium

„Re-Inventing Project Management in

Research“

I February 13 – 14, 2020

I 55 researcher applied modern methods of

project management (design thinking, project

canvas, lean startup, scrum, Kanban) on their

research projects


Project Management in Research

I


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