The course description here is in English, but the course is mostly bilingual and teams willing to have this course in Finnish is possible except the multi-choice questions on qualification round are in English.
HUOM! Kurssi ja siihen kuuluva kilpailu on siis suoritettavissa pääosin myös suomeksi.
The course is organized in co-operation with Finnish Project Association, (www.pry.fi). The course as such is two-fold,
1) training and preparing for the competition (PMC) in collaboration with Haaga-Helia’s teacher of this course and
2) participating on the Project Championship held by Finnish Project Association, a member of IPMA, International Project Management Association.
About the actual competition, part 2, please ask information in more detailed from the responsible teacher of this course (Pekka Kamaja).
The participating team will achieve the knowledge of managing projects comparable to the IPMA D-level certificate. Thus, the competition is good training for applying the D-certificate which is well-known and recognized document in working life.
Contents
Content is about project management, project phases, project types and the nature (role) of business case in Projects. Yet, the responsibilities by parties in project, team formation and management and change management belong to the subjects of the course.
The competition is run in two rounds, the qualification round and finals. The qualification round is open beginning of November until the end of March each year which enables students from both the fall and spring semester to participate on this competition.
Contact lessons 8 – 12 h (4 lessons a 2-3 h)
Self guided learning 30 h
Learning in teams 30 h
Participating on qualification round (incl. 100 min used for qualification test)
The calendar based course plan will be published on Moodle. Changes are very likely that are up to teams’ own schedules.
Extended course:
Preparing for the final in teams 40 h
Participation in the final 8 h
Learning materials
National Competence Baseline 4.0. (Projektin Johdon Pätevyys 4.0) – available on www.pry.fi pages. The references are available both in Finnish and English
Further information
Learning on the course is training for the actual competition and it is organized in terms of team meetings where the teacher coaches the teams. The more detailed information is given on Moodle. To get there you need to enroll on Peppi (mynet) on this course, PMC.
The final is possible only for one team from Haaga-Helia. Additional work worth for 2 cr is negotiable for other teams disqualified in the qualification round.
Coaching would give preparedness to solve problems involved in the three main areas of project management: Behavioral, Technology and Content oriented tasks/questions that are the content on the main reference used on the course.
The team heading to the final shall prepare to analyse a challenging project management problem that is investigated and reported in one day session at organizer’s premises Eteläranta 10, Hki. Coaching by teacher for the finals is based on reviewing the old PMC assignments.
At the end of final the team will give a PowerPoint presentation to the Jury of competition.
The winner of national competition will be the representative of Finland in the International Competition later.
Starting level and linkage with other courses
Basic knowledge about project management is crucial and working experience of projects is highly recommendable.
The organizer of PMC (PRY/IPMA) has set the following conditions for the participation:
1) only teams of 3-4 members are accepted, not individuals;
2) each team member must be under 35 years of age.
Assessment criteria
Assessment criteria - grade 1
41 – 50 % from the total points in qualification test
Grade 2:
51 – 60 % from the total points in qualification test
Assessment criteria - grade 3
61 – 70 % from the total points in qualification test
Grade 4:
The score in PMC qualification round passes the criterion of acceptance to Finals (all accepted teams are not taken into Finals).