Pro­ject Man­age­ment and Product De­vel­op­ment

Course content

Project management and product development have become increasingly relevant for an organization's innovation activities, which are core to the success of businesses. Yet, successful project management and product development require specific competencies and skills, with some sources even claiming that the strategy of a firm is the effect of projects successfully implemented within the organization. The course aims to provide students with analytical tools and capabilities that will allow them to examine the challenges and opportunities of developing products and managing projects in a complex, uncertain, and ambiguous world, and familiarize students with state-of-the-art practices of project management and product development, such as stakeholder management, waterfall vs. agile, design thinking or the use of AI for product development.

The course design is developed with the learning objectives in mind: 

The course starts with a Kickoff Day, where the focus is to create a common baseline for what project management and product development entails and to gain some first-hand experiences. 

After the Kickoff Day, we will dive further into the theoretical approaches, concepts, and theories to help us become critical thinkers of project management and product development approaches and the challenges we face when developing products using projects. Every week we will explore a new theme, starting with an online lecture, followed by an in-class exercise.