Warsaw, Poland

Project Management
(field of studies: Management and Leadership)

Bachelor's

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⇑Project Management at SWPS

Field of studies: Management and Leadership

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: economy and administration

Kind of studies: full-time studies

Description:
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University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why choose the Project Management specialisation at SWPS University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS

Why study it:

Programme: methods and tools of project work
Placements: practice in the final year
After graduation: working as a project manager

The Project Management specialisation on the Management and Leadership programme at SWPS University is chosen after the first year of the three-year bachelor's degree. It is meant for people who want to become successful project managers.

Programme: methods and tools of project work

In this specialisation you learn to:

apply traditional and agile project management methodologies to all types of projects
use tools for project planning, progress monitoring and effective team communication
choose project strategies through creative problem solving and flexible thinking
communicate and collaborate with teammates and stakeholders

Placements: practice in the final year

In the first semester of the third year you confirm your specialisation and complete a business internship, gaining on-the-job experience, and the programme closes with a graduation portfolio of the projects you have completed instead of a customary bachelor's thesis.

After graduation: working as a project manager

A project manager coordinates projects and manages teams and budgets using agile and Scrum methodology, which is exactly the working style this specialisation trains. The skills also fit related roles such as Product Owner, who guides product development so that it meets both user needs and company goals, and Agile Coach, who helps organisations build a culture of collaboration, flexibility and continuous improvement.

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

⇑Test: Is Project Management the right fit for you?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Management

Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.

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Project Management

Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time. A project is a temporary endeavor designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or staffing) undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations), which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services. In practice, the management of such distinct production approaches requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies.

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Management

It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.

Jim C. Collins (2001). Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't p. 41.

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Management

Poorly managed corporations, disorganized businesses, and badly led service agencies experience crisis daily and most will eventually fail. In contrast, the danger is to well organized, smooth running institutions that may not recognize a building crisis. Too often, sound organizations rely on their normal modus operandi to pull them through a crisis. It might. But at what cost? And what if it does not pull them through?

Wheeler L. Baker, Crisis Management: A Model for Managers (1993), p. 6

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Management

Management as an activity has always existed to make people’s desires through organized effort. Management facilitates the efforts of people in organized groups and arises when people seek to cooperate to achieve goals.

Daniel A. Wren and Arthur G. Bedeian. The evolution of management thought, 1972, p. 11-12

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