Learning Objectives / Competencies:
By attending the module, students will recognize the challenges and impact contexts in agile project management with a focus on digital and green (=sustainable) projects in a business context.
After completing the module, students will be able to:
- Professional competence: After successful participation in this module, students are able to independently set up, plan and execute sustainable and digital projects in the relevant business context using the agile project approach.
- Methodological competence: Students will also be able to analyze, evaluate and question the challenges and success factors of project management for sustainable and digital projects in a business environment. They work independently on project-related problems in a business context using the methods and instruments taught.
- Social competence: In the practice sessions, students will also be able to discuss the problems to be dealt with in smaller groups and discuss and apply the content they have learned.
- Self-competence: Students must independently implement a concept in a specific industry sector/company sector based on a sustainable digitization innovation.
Contents:
- Scientific foundations of agile project management methods
- Complexity, uncertainty and dynamics in and around projects (with focus on project environment and sustainability)
- Preconditions for the successful use of agile methods in Green Economy projects
- Overview of agile methods, principles and values and agile tools
- Planning, controlling and execution of agile projects with SCRUM
- Roles and responsibilities of project participants
- Sustainability in projects and sustainability through projects (e.g. product design and circular economy, implementation of sufficiency strategies)
- Sustainability metrics in the project
- Implementation of content in a sustainability project with focus on application of digital technologies, e.g. Green IT using the example of sustainable IT purchasing, IT operations and e-Waste best practices
Teaching and learning methods:
- Learning Lab GOA
- Learning Lab Digital Technologies
- Group work and self-study
- Group and individual presentations
- Presentations/Exercises
- Ev. field trip
- Case studies
Value of the grade in the final grade of the master's degree (master's certificate): 6 / 90
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