Einführungskurs: Introduction to project management - Einführung in das Projekt Management - Details

Allgemeine Informationen

Veranstaltungsname	Einführungskurs: Introduction to project management - Einführung in das Projekt Management
Semester	WS 2025/26
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	12
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl	12
Heimat-Einrichtung	FAI Graduiertenprogramm
Veranstaltungstyp	Einführungskurs in der Kategorie Lehre
Erster Termin	Donnerstag, 09.10.2025 09:00 - 17:30, Ort: (1056 N (Institut für Informatik, Universitätsstraße 6a))
Art/Form	Two-day workshop
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile	Ja
Hauptunterrichtssprache	englisch

Lehrende

• PD Dr.Ing. Jan-Geert Bliefernicht
• Dr. Florian Auer

Räume und Zeiten

(1056 N (Institut für Informatik, Universitätsstraße 6a))

Donnerstag, 09.10.2025 - Freitag, 10.10.2025 09:00 - 17:30

Studienbereiche

• Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik

Kommentar/Beschreibung

The two-day course "Introduction to project management" will be offered by Prof. Dr. Matthias Menter from the University of Jena. He is expert in the field of business dynamics, innovation and economic change. The following topics will be addressed:

Basics of project management:
- Introduction to the project management principles
- Project goal setting, planning, and structuring with a focus on dissertations and scientific projects
- Resource management and time planning considering research tasks
- Project controlling and monitoring in the scientific context

Teamwork and communication:
- Introduction to team dynamics and roles in scientific teams
- Working in intercultural and interdisciplinary teams
- Challenges and solutions in dealing with conflicts in research teams
- Effective communication, feedback culture and collaboration in a scientific context

Advanced project management techniques:
- Dealing with risk management and uncertainties in scientific projects
- Stakeholder management and balancing interests in the research environment
- Introduction to agile project management methods and the Scrum approach for research projects
- Change management and adaptation of projects in a scientific environment

Career development and personal growth:
- Self-management and time management for PhD students and Post-Docs
- Career planning and goal setting after the PhD
- Leadership skills and leadership in an academic environment
- Promotion of work-life balance and stress management in research

Learning objectives: To provide an overview of the most important aspects of project management. The course can thus serve as a starting point for participants to conduct independent, in-depth studies on the topic:

(1) Fundamentals: Understanding basic project management methods and concepts in order to plan, implement, and monitor projects efficiently

(2) Teamwork and communication: Knowledge of team dynamics, conflict management, effective communication strategies, and feedback culture knowledge of team dynamics, conflict management,
effective communication strategies, feedback culture

(3) Project management techniques: development and application of toolkits such as Scrum

(4) Career development and personal growth: strengthening personal and professional skills, effective career planning, development of leadership skills, achieving work-life balance