Working as a Project Manager (15 cr)

Learning outcomes

The student is able to
- develop their supervisor and coaching skills
- lead communications in team and customer situations
- promote feedback culture and team interaction in a solution-oriented manner
- strengthen their own and the team's resilience and ability to change
- use facilitation techniques in team and customer situations
- inspire, encourage and engage team members
- prepare a cost estimate and budget for a project and monitor and report on the project's finances

Teaching methods

ACTING AS A PROJECT MANAGER = You will lead a 15-ECTS P2P project in practice. The project can will be conducted in English (Service Design / Digital Marketing and Sales project).

NOTE, NOTE!: When acting as a project manager in the aforementioned type of project, you will only receive the credit points (15 credits) for acting as a project manager. NO double credits from both!
In this course, there are no separate contact meetings intended for the group. Contact meetings occur with the project team and the lecturer.

WHAT DOES A PROJECT MANAGER DO IN A PROJECT? See the IG video - Pipsa and Phillipp summarize the essentials: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6GgIYRiIDk/

ACTING AS A PROJECT MANAGER = You will lead a 15-credit P2P project in practice.The managed projects are following:
Service Design Project (conducted in English), LIST OF PROJECTS:https://ops.laurea.fi/offerings/20/29847/35721
Digital Marketing and Sales Project (conducted in English), LIST OF PROJECTS: https://ops.laurea.fi/offerings/20/29847/35722
SCHEDULES according to the project - see the project from links above!


When choosing the project you want to lead, consider whether it is a remote or on-campus project:

Service Design and Digital marketing and Sales project are conducted as a campus projects (contact learning) at Hyvinkää Campus
ON-CAMPUS PROJECT (= The team meets regularly on campus weekly): Course platforms: TEAMS and Canvas (Project Learning Canvas). The course involves pair or group work. FEEDBACK: Feedback is given orally in supervisor meetings, by commenting on documents and outputs produced by students, as peer feedback, and as feedback from the client.



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Tero Uusitalo, tero.uusitalo@laurea.fi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tero-uusitalo-84239a39/

This project, as described in this implementation plan, serves as a learning environment for freely elective complementary skills studies. Any other skills developed during the project will be agreed upon during the project.

The project supervision and working times can be viewed in Lukkarikone. Communication practices are agreed upon on a project-by-project basis. Check the supervision and meeting times of your chosen project, not the schedule of this course, as there is none.

Laurea reserves the right to make changes.

The quality of the course implementation has been evaluated, and the self-assessment report can be found in the project’s Teams workspace.

International connections

In the Digital Marketing and Sales and Service Design projects, you will work in an international team alongside exchange and Laurea students.
Look also the assignment of the project.

Evaluation scale

H-5