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Project Management TEK365 2011-2012 LP1

Status: Avslutad
Öppen för svar: 2011-10-12 - 2011-10-18
Antal svar: 66
Procent av deltagarna som svarat: 97%
Kontaktperson: Jan Wickenberg»
Utbildningsprogram som genomför enkäten: Industriell ekonomi 300 hp
Utbildningsprogram studenten tillhör: Informationsteknik 300 hp

1. What is your general impression of the course?

66 svarande

Worst course ever»0 0%
Fair»1 1%
Adequate»4 6%
Good»16 24%
Excellent»38 57%
Best course ever»7 10%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 4.69

- A lot of content in a tight schedule» (Adequate)
- » (Good)
- The lectures are really good & intersting. The concept of 4 cases is quite good too. The trouble is the first pre-reading during the same week than the first test. We don"t have time to work for the test and do seriously the readings.» (Good)
- I think the workload is a little extreme, it is the most i"ve had to work in all my master courses» (Good)
- Even Though the workload is way greater than i expected it helped me overcome some problems, such as, innability to talk in public. » (Good)
- High workload, though high learning outcome.» (Excellent)
- I enjoyed lectures of Jan as well as Lars very much. Thank you.» (Excellent)
- How ever, it has contained a lot, really a lot of information under a relatively short period of time, so it will probably take a while for most of it to sink in.» (Excellent)
- Though not many competitors due to this being my first period here.» (Excellent)
- Theatrical lectures-enjoyable, full of personal experiences and anekdotal moments-that turn around into our minds for weeks afterwards (who knows..probably even for years as well? ). It"s true..noone forgets a good play/film.» (Excellent)
- Excellent course, given by Excellent teacher!» (Excellent)
- High workload, High knowledge gain.» (Excellent)
- A lot of work, but I learnt a lot. Jan and Lars are both great teachers.» (Excellent)
- One of the better courses I"ve taken.» (Excellent)
- I have been motivated to learn because this course showed me the interseresting side of project management. The focus was not about learning as much stale theory as possible. And then barf out said theory at a 4 hour megaexam. The ongoing process with cases was good and steady stream of interesting articles gave me much pleasure.» (Excellent)
- I really, really liked the class! It was a lot of fun and I learned quite a lot! » (Best course ever)
- Nog den kurs som känts mest givande. Kanske har att göra med att det är en rätt bred kurs och vi inte läser andra liknande ämnen. Tycker man får lite mersmak för ämnet även om jag har svårt att se mig själv som PM i framtiden.» (Best course ever)
- A great lecturer made this one of the best courses ever!» (Best course ever)


About you

2. What is your total working experience of product (and service) development projects?

Matrisfråga

Working as a project member
66 svarande

None»22 33%
1 - 3 months»9 13%
4 - 6 months»13 20%
7 - 12 months»10 15%
More than a year»11 16%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 2.67

Working as a project manager / project leader
65 svarande

None»43 67%
1 - 3 months»10 15%
4 - 6 months»5 7%
7 - 12 months»0 0%
More than a year»6 9%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 1.68

3. Where did you receive your Bachelor degree?

66 svarande

D or IT at Chalmers»34 51%
Elsewhere at Chalmers»4 6%
A Swedish university other than Chalmers»2 3%
A European university elsewhere than in Sweden»19 28%
A non-European university»7 10%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 2.4

4. Have you attended any other university course on project management?

66 svarande

No, this was my first one»45 70%
Yes, on the Batchelor level»13 20%
Yes, on the Master level»5 7%
Yes, on the post-graduate level»1 1%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.4

- Only some things as parts of a software quality course on my Bachelor.» (No, this was my first one)
- Extensively during an Erasmus semester. » (Yes, on the Batchelor level)
- extremely different approaches. Here, theoretical aspects are emphasized, where in france, pratical aspects and "exercise projects" are numerous» (Yes, on the Master level)
- In France, i was in an engineering school, so there is no bachelor/master. But in my studies, i worked on different school/student projects and I had some project management courses.» (Yes, on the Master level)
- But less deep.» (Yes, on the post-graduate level)

5. What is your preferred style of studying?

Please select an answer between 1 and 7 (the scale end-points are described in 1 and 7)

Matrisfråga

- As an exchange student, i dodn"t care about exams as long i feel i earned experience from the course and i have a good enough grade to pass.»
- It is important to pass the course, higher grades are a plus!»
- I think project managment is not my destiny. I just want to pass the course.»

I prefer work that is challenging
66 svarande

1 - Not at all true of me»0 0%
2 3%
3 4%
11 16%
19 29%
23 35%
7 - Very true of me»7 10%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 5.21

I prefer course work that arouses my curiosity, even if it is difficult
66 svarande

1 - Not at all true of me»0 0%
1 1%
3 4%
6 9%
14 21%
23 35%
7 - Very true of me»18 27%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 5.67

Getting good grades is my main goal for this course
66 svarande

1 - Not at all true of me»6 9%
10 15%
15 23%
18 27%
11 16%
5 7%
7 - Very true of me»0 0%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 3.5

A good grade in this course is more important to me than what I learn from the course
65 svarande

1 - Not at all true of me»20 31%
19 29%
13 20%
9 14%
2 3%
1 1%
7 - Very true of me»0 0%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 2.32


About the course

6. This helped me understand the Basics of Project Management

Matrisfråga

- Firstly I must say that Jan is an excellent, outstanding teacher. On top of that, I would like to thank all the staff of this course, but especially Lars because he teaches for passion and it is simply inspiring. I never will forget his lectures.»
- Why is the basic test done after 2 weeks ? Do you really believe that we are able to absorb all these notions in 2 weeks ? If you do, please communicate more with foreign students, because I (and some other French students) didn"t really believe you when you told us that we have to read this book in two weeks. For the lectures: nothing to report, really good and interesting»
- I joined the course in week three. Reading Maylor at the moment but it´,s a hard question for me to answer.»
- because reading 400pages in the first 2 weeks of your master programm is quite hard... Lars commitment was helpful to pay attention to the important parts of the book.»
- I would have learnt more from the Maylor book if I had gotten more time to read it.»
- Did not read the book that much.»
- Lars would present a lot of good real life experiences that helped to connect the theorectical ideas with the practical ones, and be able to analyse better each situation »
- I think this course is really well built.»
- Gillar alla historier och anekdoter, blir lättare att relatera till och komma ihåg.»
- I found no cliff notes. But did not look for them either.»
- The thing that helped me understand PM the best was the team-working sessions when you could reflect on each team members behaviour and how they changed the way we worked.»

Reading the text-book (Maylor)
66 svarande

I totally agree»11 16%
I agree to some extent»42 63%
I neither agree nor disagree»8 12%
I disagree to some extent»4 6%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 2.12

Reading the lecture hand-outs
65 svarande

I totally agree»10 16%
I agree to some extent»29 46%
I neither agree nor disagree»16 25%
I disagree to some extent»6 9%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer»3

Genomsnitt: 2.33

Reading Cliff notes (written by other students)
66 svarande

I totally agree»2 5%
I agree to some extent»7 18%
I neither agree nor disagree»6 16%
I disagree to some extent»7 18%
I totally disagree»15 40%
No answer»29

Genomsnitt: 3.7

Attending the PM Basics lectures
66 svarande

I totally agree»23 35%
I agree to some extent»28 43%
I neither agree nor disagree»7 10%
I disagree to some extent»4 6%
I totally disagree»2 3%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.96

Lars presentation style during the lectures
66 svarande

I totally agree»25 39%
I agree to some extent»22 34%
I neither agree nor disagree»13 20%
I disagree to some extent»3 4%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»3

Genomsnitt: 1.9

7. The Pre-readings

Matrisfråga

- »
- This was (will be ?) an extremely hard excercise for me, as said previously, accademical approach is not what i am used to. This is my final year, and i never read any article of that kind for the courses at my home university.»
- Unfortunately I didn"t have time to handle all of the pre-readings properly and even to delivery them with more quality. However, the teacher was very clear about this hurry pace in the beginning of this course, thus, to take it was my own option.»
- "I would have invested the same effort in the preparatory work without the hand-ins being mandatory": Yes I would, but only if the teachers pointed out when and why we should read them and that is was important.»
- Learning the reflective writing style came more over time.»
- See question n°1. Problem of timing for the first pre-reading»
- That the pre-reading was mandatory was a good thing I would say, what was better was that it was okay to decrease quality as long as it was done. In this way it forced us to read it and reflect, if it was not mandatory other things would have taken that time instead (e.g. other courses, or just simply spare time) point being, at least I would not have done it, and therefor missed out on a great learning experience. Probably others as well.»
- Most of the pre-reading texts were very interesting.»
- Much time went into reading the papers, even if we were to speed reed them. It might be easy for someone with a doctors degree in a subject to speed read materials related to the subject, but NOT for most of us students. Much more time went into gaining any understanding of the articles than "15 minutes top".»
- Bra med obligatorisk läsning. Annars gör man så lite som möjligt.»
- NEVER give a student the option to NOT read something, because then the student will not read it.»

I put lots of effort in the preparatory work
66 svarande

I totally agree»10 15%
I agree to some extent»26 39%
I neither agree nor disagree»16 24%
I disagree to some extent»10 15%
I totally disagree»4 6%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 2.57

The preparatory work made me learn much about project management
66 svarande

I totally agree»9 13%
I agree to some extent»27 40%
I neither agree nor disagree»19 28%
I disagree to some extent»9 13%
I totally disagree»2 3%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 2.51

The preparatory work made me learn the reflective writing style (required for the Case essays and the Home Exam)
65 svarande

I totally agree»7 10%
I agree to some extent»30 46%
I neither agree nor disagree»18 27%
I disagree to some extent»7 10%
I totally disagree»3 4%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 2.52

I would have invested the same effort in the preparatory work without the hand-ins being mandatory
66 svarande

I totally agree»4 6%
I agree to some extent»3 4%
I neither agree nor disagree»9 13%
I disagree to some extent»17 26%
I totally disagree»32 49%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 4.07

8. The Stand-alone Lectures

This was a good lecture

Matrisfråga

- The closing lecture is tomorrow so I can"t judge it yet.»
- "Introduction to Microsoft Project": It was as good as it could be with that short time. But I really think it was way to little time to learn that program.»
- Maybe you should change the introduction to MS Project. It"s not at all Lars fault ! It"s just, attending a lecture to learn how to use a software, without having it, it"s almost useless. If we don"t practise in the same time than Lars, it"s really hard to remember what he said. The idea of a MS Project introduction is really good, but you should do a lab, the results will be better.»
- The MsProject-lecture was good and all, but it is hard to have a demo-lecture about a software, it is much easier to be able to click around by your self. Perhaps it would have been better with an exercise session, and given some minor tasks to performed while being supervised and able to ask direct questions about any surfacing problems.»
- Jan"s lecturing style was very good and really helped building interest for the subject. The "Shadows of Project Management" lecture was the definitely the best lecture of this course. »
- Jan seems passionate about the topic, which makes his lectures sound very interesting and I could easily listen through the whole lecture without daydreaming. Also, integrating his stories into the teachings was made in a very smooth fashion which also made me more interested in listening to what he had to say.»
- Kommer inte ihåg mycket från Marias lektion. Har för mig att den var rätt sövande. Mer interaktion med publiken och historier/exempel kanske hade hjälp till.»
- More like, "This was an awesome lecture"»
- To far back for me to remember the first three lectures.»

Course Introduction (Jan)
66 svarande

I totally agree»41 68%
I agree to some extent»16 26%
I neither agree nor disagree»3 5%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not attend»6

Genomsnitt: 1.36

Introduction to Microsoft Project (Lars)
66 svarande

I totally agree»19 31%
I agree to some extent»20 32%
I neither agree nor disagree»15 24%
I disagree to some extent»6 9%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer/I did not attend»5

Genomsnitt: 2.18

The Early Phases of NPD (Maria)
66 svarande

I totally agree»10 19%
I agree to some extent»23 44%
I neither agree nor disagree»13 25%
I disagree to some extent»5 9%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer/I did not attend»14

Genomsnitt: 2.3

Managing the Estimation Error (Magne Jørgensen)
66 svarande

I totally agree»22 38%
I agree to some extent»22 38%
I neither agree nor disagree»10 17%
I disagree to some extent»3 5%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not attend»9

Genomsnitt: 1.89

Shadows of Project Management (Jan)
66 svarande

I totally agree»35 67%
I agree to some extent»12 23%
I neither agree nor disagree»4 7%
I disagree to some extent»1 1%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not attend»14

Genomsnitt: 1.44

Pentagon Wars (Jan)
66 svarande

I totally agree»33 62%
I agree to some extent»15 28%
I neither agree nor disagree»4 7%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer/I did not attend»13

Genomsnitt: 1.5

The Closing Lecture (Jan)
66 svarande

I totally agree»28 53%
I agree to some extent»21 40%
I neither agree nor disagree»3 5%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not attend»14

Genomsnitt: 1.51

9. The Organizing Case (Jan Wickenberg)

Matrisfråga

- Excellent!»
- Willing to go to deep into the questions, integorating people on what they learnt about the case. I needed more preparation before this, to get to know the people i will try to extract knowledge from.»
- I did not really like discussing (interviews etc) with just ONE group.»
- Haven"t been on any seminar before so didn"t know much I were supposed to prepare, would be nice to explain i bit before.»
- Very little time to talk with the other group. Most time was spent by lecturer talking to us. Would have been good to have more discussion time.»
- I didn"t attend the seminar»
- One hour more to get more time to discuss at the seminar would have been good.»
- The case seminar discussions really help build further understanding of the texts of this case.»
- If I remember correctly there wasn"t really that much information about the actual case on the case lecture, I"d appreciate some more but understand that was hard to give out without compromising the task.»
- It was really hard to understand some concepts behind the tests presented. Galbraid and Mintzberg revealed to be a challenge »
- Because I was late at the first seminar, I had to go to the next one. Thus, it was a little bit less interesting to do it with my group.»

The assignment was relevant
65 svarande

I totally agree»33 52%
I agree to some extent»26 41%
I neither agree nor disagree»4 6%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.53

The case lecture content was relevant
65 svarande

I totally agree»30 47%
I agree to some extent»28 44%
I neither agree nor disagree»5 7%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.6

The case lecture was well presented
64 svarande

I totally agree»28 45%
I agree to some extent»28 45%
I neither agree nor disagree»6 9%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.64

The case seminar was relevant
65 svarande

I totally agree»31 49%
I agree to some extent»22 34%
I neither agree nor disagree»7 11%
I disagree to some extent»3 4%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.71

The case seminar was chaired in a good way
63 svarande

I totally agree»28 47%
I agree to some extent»22 37%
I neither agree nor disagree»4 6%
I disagree to some extent»5 8%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»4

Genomsnitt: 1.76

10. The Planning Case (Per Svensson & Lars Hallin)

Matrisfråga

- It feels like we spent more focus on learning how to use MS project than on learning the principles and concepts of planning.»
- Lars Hallin presented the case lecture good, Per Svensson not that much.»
- Most students were uncomfortable during this seminar, felt like few understood what the teacher asked or wanted from us. Lots of misunderstandings. Things got better during the ms project part.»
- Discussion was not encouraged at the seminar. When someone made a comment Per would say something like: yes, but thats not what I"m thinking of, or yes but lets discuss that later.»
- Per Svensson"s spoken English was not satisfactory. This made him look insecure and destroyed his credibility to some extent. I think the Case in it"s entirety was good but maybe a different lecturer next year.»
- Per is not good presenter unfortunately. IDK what to do with him though. Better presenter is more important than actual knowledge in the field.»
- The main problem I found with this case was the structure of the seminar. It was great to go through some of the plans and discuss them but the rest of the seminar felt more lika a Q&A structure and not a real discussion. Per asked a question and the we answered. I would have liked a structure more like the first seminar.»
- The seminar should have been more connected to the work we"d done, and should be started from the point we were at. As it was now, we started out very slowly by writing down bullets on the board - remaking the work we had been doing which was a waste of time. I would have liked to spend more time going through people"s plans in the way Lars was doing.»
- Per is the opposite to Jan, he makes the good stuff sound very boring. I"m sure he has got a lot of knowledge though, and I understand why he"s teaching this course.»
- Lars was very good an inspiring. Not to be judgemental but Per was the only bad thing about this course, dont know if it was due to him speaking english or presentation skills, but the feeling to discribe his lectures and presentation is awkwardness.»
- the case lecture was boring (sorry but it is the truth).»

The assignment was relevant
65 svarande

I totally agree»41 65%
I agree to some extent»17 26%
I neither agree nor disagree»3 4%
I disagree to some extent»1 1%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.47

The case lecture content was relevant
65 svarande

I totally agree»22 35%
I agree to some extent»30 48%
I neither agree nor disagree»6 9%
I disagree to some extent»3 4%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer»3

Genomsnitt: 1.88

The case lecture was well presented
64 svarande

I totally agree»12 19%
I agree to some extent»20 32%
I neither agree nor disagree»10 16%
I disagree to some extent»16 25%
I totally disagree»4 6%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 2.67

The case seminar was relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»19 29%
I agree to some extent»21 32%
I neither agree nor disagree»12 18%
I disagree to some extent»6 9%
I totally disagree»6 9%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 2.35

The case seminar was chaired in a good way
66 svarande

I totally agree»11 18%
I agree to some extent»22 36%
I neither agree nor disagree»9 14%
I disagree to some extent»12 19%
I totally disagree»7 11%
No answer»5

Genomsnitt: 2.7

11. The Contracting Case (Arni Halldorsson & Sara Rogerson)

Matrisfråga

- Sooo many different opinions where dressed from the very same case study, no consensus = lack of appropriation of the case ?? i could not tell.»
- This was the only case that was a bit confusing. I"m still not sure what contracting concerns and would have needed more basics in the introduction.»
- It was a little bit hard to focus and listen as all groups present the same thing. Even though it actually had a pretty good deviation in the different presentations.»
- Grading was strange»
- The ending comment from each group that was recorded felt a bit unnatural and awkward.»
- The case seminar would be even better if more time for structured discussions were allowed. Increasing time without increasing group size is hard so maybe shorten the presentations a bit in the future.»
- The presentation is great - but there should be less requirements on the essay it was too much work.»
- In this case the only problem was to interpret the assignment given since it was very particular. »
- Arni should really have some "konstpauser" in his presentations, I could not follow him more than for 20-30 secs in a row.»
- Mr Halldorsson was quite hard to understand.»

The assignment was relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»26 40%
I agree to some extent»25 39%
I neither agree nor disagree»12 18%
I disagree to some extent»1 1%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.81

The case lecture content was relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»20 31%
I agree to some extent»28 43%
I neither agree nor disagree»11 17%
I disagree to some extent»5 7%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 2.01

The case lecture was well presented
66 svarande

I totally agree»20 31%
I agree to some extent»24 37%
I neither agree nor disagree»13 20%
I disagree to some extent»7 10%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 2.1

The case seminar was relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»19 29%
I agree to some extent»25 39%
I neither agree nor disagree»14 21%
I disagree to some extent»5 7%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 2.12

The case seminar was chaired in a good way
66 svarande

I totally agree»21 33%
I agree to some extent»24 38%
I neither agree nor disagree»8 12%
I disagree to some extent»6 9%
I totally disagree»3 4%
No answer»4

Genomsnitt: 2.12

12. The Learning Case (Jan Wickenberg)

Matrisfråga

- Roles repartition in the team lead to poor quantity of knowledge acquired in this case»
- The case seminar discussions was very good.»
- I will probably never forget the watch that didn"t work and the metaphor Jan illustrated by using it as an example.»
- Great case ! »

The assignment was relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»40 62%
I agree to some extent»21 32%
I neither agree nor disagree»3 4%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.42

The case lecture content was relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»36 57%
I agree to some extent»25 39%
I neither agree nor disagree»2 3%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»3

Genomsnitt: 1.46

The case lecture was well presented
66 svarande

I totally agree»42 68%
I agree to some extent»18 29%
I neither agree nor disagree»1 1%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»5

Genomsnitt: 1.32

The case seminar was relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»34 53%
I agree to some extent»25 39%
I neither agree nor disagree»4 6%
I disagree to some extent»1 1%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»2

Genomsnitt: 1.56

The case seminar was chaired in a good way
66 svarande

I totally agree»33 54%
I agree to some extent»18 29%
I neither agree nor disagree»7 11%
I disagree to some extent»3 4%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer»5

Genomsnitt: 1.67

13. The Course Administration

Matrisfråga

- Initial teething problems with the first lecture not lining up with time-edit was an issue»
- iCal also accessible via timeEdit»
- It was a little confusing that there were two versions of the PM online. Weekly e-mails was excellent. I"ll miss that kind of attention in my next course.»
- Unfortunately the schedule changes were made the day before the class, or even in the morning of the same day, I usually check my classes a day or two ahead.»
- I noticed that there were more old basic exams on the archived course page. That was good and I think those should have been included to this course page aswell.»
- I only used the course PM to check the instructions for the pre-reading hand-in.»
- iCal is available from TimeEdit, would be better if teacher used that system seeing how all other courses do that.»
- This course was changing many hours and many rooms. To be honest it was quite difficult to remember,and I didn"t like this very much. And though it was only for a few lectures...8 in the morning is too early for Lindholmen! :) 8.30 feels better! »
- on the first couple of weeks, I really had problems with the schedule and lectures. I used to check TimeEdit on those weeks. That cost me a lot.»
- The (unfinished) new student portal made hand-ins unnecessarily complicated. Maybe use a more stable system such as fire in the future.»
- I thought the different tasks in the course PM could be separated a bit better... it all seemed like a big mess in the PM.»
- You need to keep the weekly e-mail ! Such useful !»
- I use iCal, therefore this was very good to synch with.»
- the fact that there was a BAD schedule available online on time-edit I missed two lectures. Please remove any schedule that does not work, for the best of the students.»

Having the course schedule as an iCalendar subscription file was useful to me
66 svarande

I totally agree»48 77%
I agree to some extent»7 11%
I neither agree nor disagree»4 6%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»3 4%
No answer/I did not use it»4

Genomsnitt: 1.43

The on-line web schedule was useful to me
66 svarande

I totally agree»33 55%
I agree to some extent»8 13%
I neither agree nor disagree»9 15%
I disagree to some extent»2 3%
I totally disagree»7 11%
No answer/I did not use it»7

Genomsnitt: 2.01

The News section was kept relevant at all times
66 svarande

I totally agree»27 43%
I agree to some extent»18 29%
I neither agree nor disagree»12 19%
I disagree to some extent»5 8%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not use it»4

Genomsnitt: 1.91

The weekly e-mail was useful to me
66 svarande

I totally agree»56 84%
I agree to some extent»7 10%
I neither agree nor disagree»3 4%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not use it»0

Genomsnitt: 1.19

The Course PM was relevant
65 svarande

I totally agree»33 53%
I agree to some extent»17 27%
I neither agree nor disagree»10 16%
I disagree to some extent»2 3%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not use it»3

Genomsnitt: 1.69

The hand-out section was kept relevant
66 svarande

I totally agree»45 70%
I agree to some extent»17 26%
I neither agree nor disagree»1 1%
I disagree to some extent»1 1%
I totally disagree»0 0%
No answer/I did not use it»2

Genomsnitt: 1.34

14. The Course Location

The course was held at Lindholmen. Would you have preferred that it was Johanneberg instead?

66 svarande

I would have preferred Johanneberg»27 40%
Either place would have been fine by me»25 37%
I preferred it were it was, at Lindholmen»14 21%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 1.8

- I"m biased because I live near Johanneberg! But I also like the Johanneberg environment better than Lindholmen.» (I would have preferred Johanneberg)
- I had another course at Johanneberg, and it"s closer to home.» (I would have preferred Johanneberg)
- I would only have preferred it at Johanneberg because its closer to home. » (I would have preferred Johanneberg)
- Closer of my accomodation.» (I would have preferred Johanneberg)
- I live close to Johanneberg.» (I would have preferred Johanneberg)
- This depends on what other course you are reading at the same time, which if different for a lot of students. There will always be conflicts.» (Either place would have been fine by me)
- Johanneberg is still my "home" campus, but I don"t mind being at Lindholmen as long as I don"t have to travel between the two campuses.» (Either place would have been fine by me)
- As long as all courses in the master programme during the same study period is at the same campus, I don"t really care.» (Either place would have been fine by me)
- i couldn"t have taken it if it were on johaneberg» (I preferred it were it was, at Lindholmen)
- Have both courses at same place is good so no stressing between places ( as you might know from experience of Göta-älvbron), also I live at lindholmen :D» (I preferred it were it was, at Lindholmen)
- Omväxling förnöjer» (I preferred it were it was, at Lindholmen)

15. The Odd Questions

Matrisfråga

- I wish i could by me some memory somewhere...»
- I like to keep an open mind.»
- Haha I want answer these, nice try!»
- I really learned some valuable things in this course from the paradigms and stories.»
- Yay!»
- Though Buchanan presents an oposit point of view than Argyris, I think that keeping in mind both the perspectives and reacting due to the circumstances inside an organisation, can bring the best effects. Of course believing in the motivation of people is a nice way of thinking and handdling life, but be realistic. Politics exist and people have to haddle it smart to show their commitment and their special value. »
- EPIC questions! :D»
- The refraction of light is explained by Huygens-Fresnel principle.»
- A little bit of both Buchanan and Argyris, please!»

Huygens theorem explains the refraction of light
66 svarande

I totally agree»10 18%
I agree to some extent»13 24%
I neither agree nor disagree»16 30%
I disagree to some extent»7 13%
I totally disagree»7 13%
No answer»13

Genomsnitt: 2.77

Dave Buchanan rules! I would rather eat a can of worms than be a Argyris softie!
66 svarande

I totally agree»4 7%
I agree to some extent»7 12%
I neither agree nor disagree»18 32%
I disagree to some extent»19 33%
I totally disagree»8 14%
No answer»10

Genomsnitt: 3.35

Chris Argyris rules! The world is a darker place because of Buchanan bandits!
66 svarande

I totally agree»8 14%
I agree to some extent»28 50%
I neither agree nor disagree»14 25%
I disagree to some extent»4 7%
I totally disagree»2 3%
No answer»10

Genomsnitt: 2.35

In the future, after taking this course, I will understand a little bit better, be a little bit less frustrated, and make a little more money
65 svarande

I totally agree»38 59%
I agree to some extent»21 32%
I neither agree nor disagree»4 6%
I disagree to some extent»0 0%
I totally disagree»1 1%
No answer»1

Genomsnitt: 1.51


Chalmers standard questions

16. How was the course workload?

66 svarande

Too low»0 0%
Low»0 0%
Adequate»2 3%
High»36 54%
Too high»28 42%
No answer»0

Genomsnitt: 4.39

- We will see if i was right saying high after the grades of the quarter. I have taken 3 courses including yours. Failing one would make me change to too high» (High)
- High in a good way.» (High)
- Its hard for me to say as I haven´,t still really caught up, but I started in the middle of week 3 and I feel that I have caught up on everything except for the test that I will probably have to do after christmas.» (High)
- High nearing too high but that was only because the other course was equally demanding. Would have been better if it was possible to focus more on this course.» (High)
- The first two weeks were very intense with the studying for the basics exam, high activity in my other course as well as a lot of work with my involvement in the student union.» (High)
- Boderline too high. Saved by the fact that Requirements Engineering still is a rather easy course, even though they said it would not be. Could be a problem for next year.» (High)
- The cases did take a lot of time, but they were also very helpful in learning the different topics.» (High)
- Case lectures should have been on monday morning instead of afternoon so there are three afternoons worth of time available for the assignment. Depth of knowledge required for the "Dugga" was unreasonable in some regards as questions about anecdotes are not really relevant.» (High)
- A lot of work !» (High)
- Läste bara en kurs så gick mer än bra» (High)
- Structure of course was good, but didn"t let me spend much time on my other course.» (High)
- Due to the course Requirements Engineering changing their course from a "easy" course into a "hard" course and that both this course and Requirements Engineering course is mandatory for me I have spent roughly 60-70 hours a week with work, this is TO MUCH. And because of this the quality in both courses has been dramatically lowered into the point where I fluncted both the duggorna that was given, I will probably be forced to redo both courses at a later date due to this. » (High)
- Very much work. Especially in the beginning. We (Software Engineering) also had another course at the same time with a lot of work to do. Had almost no time at all to study for the test on Maylor"s book...» (Too high)
- Unfortunately, to some International Students as me it is quite difficult to handle high demanding assignments or heavy readings. I believe that by doing more exercises on class time would considerably improve my learning. Moreover, it was/is really difficult to handle the other course beside this one.» (Too high)
- Too much work ! 15p course (or add some more so it can be)?» (Too high)
- In somewhat of a good way. It was extremely tough to fit in 4 cases in this short time period, even though they all were extremely interesting.» (Too high)
- First 2 week in combination with req was a pain... Then it was high.» (Too high)
- The work load was too high, especially when at the same time there was other high work load from another course» (Too high)
- Having 2 courses at this study period, I came up studding more than 12h/day, at least 4days/week, and another 7-8hours/day the rest days. No weekends for 7 weeks...it"s hard! Isn"t it? But thought the heavy workload..I feel that I learned sth. I catch myself thinking from an other point of view, when discussing everyday topics..and that"s interesting!!!» (Too high)
- I would have loved if I had enough time to fully commit to this course. The way it turned out was that my other course got neglected since it did not have as many mandatory hand ins.» (Too high)
- High is good, but not to high :)» (Too high)
- Too heavy and too many cases. Maybe remove one for next year? I can not say which one to remove because all of them seemed relevant.» (Too high)

17. What should definitely be preserved to next year?

- Learing and organising»
- everything»
- Jan»
- Pentagon Wars»
- Humor, planning case, pentagon wars»
- teachers»
- The Shadow System lecture!»
- Teachers»
- case essays»
- Case studies (lectures, seminars)»
- No answer»
- The planning case The learning case The Pentagon Wars movie Abrasoff(2002) Goleman(2000)»
- All of it except the microsoft project.»
- - Case seminar - Email per week»
- The presentation style!!»
- - The 4 cases - The lecturers :-)»
- The cases and the seminares, it was good to reflect and hear other groups thoughts, probably one of the most giving things was to hear how the other groups interpreted and discussed the case questions.»
- Jan is a great lecturer»
- I really enjoyed the learning case»
- Everything»
- Cases.»
- Case essays and pre-readings are great ways to keep the students engaged.»
- Jan»
- The case sessions are very good, especially the seminars.»
- The Cases, they were really good!»
- Interesting cases! Life driven examples for many project management techniques.»
- The teacher!»
- The possibility of writing the home exam in pairs. When one finds in his/her team a good collaboration it can be very useful even though personally I didn"t find that. »
- Jan! :) His a great teacher, with exellent teaching skills and a unique way of teaching. This course is interesting for me anyway! But I know that it can become absolutely boring, staying at reading a book. The whole course was very well build - with better and worse parts, but still a great course. And sth more..the mid-exam was a really good idea! Difficult...but good! It"smuch more preferable to take a home exam at the end than a test.»
- The case assignments and case seminars.»
- I think most of the course was excellent and could very well stay the same for next year. The structure of the pre-readings as well as the mixture of scientific and business magazine articles was very good. Many courses have recommended but having a mandatory hand-in forced me to read the all and I think I learned a lot from them.»
- JAN, THE AWESOME TEACHER!»
- This course. Very good course that will help me in future be less naive when working in organizations and make me always think one more time before i take my decisions »
- Th teaching style.»
- Most of them»
- Contracting and Learning case. The leadership articles. »
- Teachers Jan and Lars. Jan for obvious reasons of skill and competence, but Lars did a good job in presenting the basics and provided some more validity.»
- Lars going through the basics of PM and MS Project, Jan"s anecdotes and weekly e-mails»
- Most of the cases were good and should be preserved.»
- Jan and his lectures. Also Lars and his intro to PM.»
- The cases should be in specially the learning case»
- The way the course was presented and how information was available to the students. The interaction with different lecturers to each case. The oral presentation and communication assignments»
- Everything but Per»
- The basic exam. Maylors book. Jan Wickenberg and Lars Hallin»
- Lars and Jan !»
- De obligatoriska momenten, hemtentan (för att kompensera för det höga tempot i resten av kursen)»
- Jans seminars was good because they were interactive.»
- The overall structure was really good!»
- The cases»
- The structured way of working each week.»

18. What should definitely be changed to next year?

- The Microsoft project case»
- nothing»
- First lecture time should line up with time edit»
- Less cases. Maybe two cases with twice the amount of time to work with them.»
- more practical projects! a 2 weeks case with 6-8 persons ? or even better 2 cases simultaneously of 2 weeks (appointing 1 project manager each, and pool of resources)»
- A few of the cases were rather fuzzy regarding what we were actually supposed to do.»
- The amount of home assignments/readings (to less). »
- pm basics test»
- Some of the seminars should be moderated in a different way (i.e: make them more participatory). The rule of the moderator, in my humile opinion, is to "moderate" the discussion, not to dismiss the ideas that are opposed to his guidelines (I experienced that in two of the seminars). I think that if the pre-readings were marked, the quality of their hand-ins would be increased.»
- No answer»
- Managing the estimation error Kreiner(1995)»
- The workload and microsoft project.»
- - Less case - More practice»
- More lectures or have four hour lectures when the seminars were to happen. Meaning that I was a little sad that we had one lecture a week and one seminar. I"d have prefered two lectures and one seminar a week since they"re so interesting!»
- - the introduction to MSP - the 1st pre-reading - only two weeks to read 450 pages book is too short»
- Maybe make the lecture about Microsoft into a mandatory exercise session, with a couple of tasks to pass, with marks pass or fail only. »
- More feedback on assignments. We would learn so much more if we could get feedback. The grouping. It"s unfair to make random groups because some students end up in great groups and some in bad groups. Either divide it so groups have equal ambitions or let us choose. »
- I didn"t like the way that the planning case was carried out»
- nothing major»
- Week 2 Basic Exam, move to Week 7.»
- If at all possible, some kind of hands-on experience (not MS Project) would be a great help. Pentagon Wars really helped illustrate some of the concepts, but some sort of roleplay or student analysis of a movie demonstrating the concepts in a less over-the-top way would be great!»
- Per»
- The deadline of pre-reading assignment is too close to the basic test. If I had lectures relevant to reading later than the basic test I would had a better understand to the lecture.»
- Schedule should be more clear from the start. Feedback for the cases earlier so that the students know what they did right/wrong.»
- The planning case lecture/seminar»
- All the groups should consist of 4 people. When a group consisted of less then there should be rearrangement between the groups.»
- Probably the workload should be slightly less. I know..I could not name sth to exclude. But, it"s too hard to follow, and people who cannot study 12 hours/day may loose very valuable knowledge.»
- The slides are not readable. It would be good if they have more texts than pictures.»
- Mandatory change of groups.»
- I got the impression that Per Svensson have vast knowledge in the subject but his poor spoken English skills made him a sub-optimal lecturer for the planning case. »
- Lectures by Per»
- I dont know really. The course is heavy but i don"t know how to change that. The only thing i felt was wrong was the deadline for the last preparation, I didn"t understand why it was scheduled to friday and not sunday or monday, but the it was moved so i was happy!»
- Move the basic exam to one week later. Too little time to learn the entire Mayler book. Or pick out chapters that are relevant. The "pre-reading" for week 2 where a little to much to do together with reading the book for the basic exam. I"m not sure that i learned anything from having Microsoft Project in the course. Too little time to be able to fully understand it. Skip it and focus on the cases instead.»
- The workload can be reduced a bit.»
- change the time of the basic business test»
- Lecture about leadership whould be cool. »
- Per Svensson. He may be knowledgeable, but he has a hard time expressing his knowledge. More or less just sat in the classroom for two hours, when we could have learnt a lot more from fellow students than just him keeping quiet and occasionally splurting out a question or two.»
- The second case seminar»
- Maybe replace the pre-readings with something else, because you do not spend a lot of time to do them and you are not very motivated to do them anyway and then you will not learn much from it.»
- More lectures by Jan. Take some of the work off the cases and do lectures instead. Would be nice to have the dugga a bit later in the course, so you would actually have a chance to open the course book before doing it.»
- The schedule is a little bit hard, in general I had to spend 4 days with the project manager course and 1 day working with my other course. It always felt that I was one week behind my reading schedule.»
- The way the cases are evaluated should be more explicit. Not only that but some questions should better developed.The PM basics test should be more about understanding concepts and less the ability to know the entire Maylor by heart. Makes no sense to have questions like " what theory does this graph makes reference to"..since Maylor has a explanatory graph for almost each theory»
- Nothing but Per»
- Too much workload on the pre-readings. Even if it"s interessting, it just becomes stressful since we have another course to take as well»
- The basis test come too early. Maybe postpone it to one or two weeks could be good.»
-
- Pers lecture was not very pedagogical, unfortenately.»
- THERE WAS NO FEEDBACK on our case handins. " What was good? What was bad? An improvement of skills must be with training and feedback coupled. This was just training. The reliance on that we learned felt more like a bet on osmosis. Our cases got graded with a number. That didnt tell us anything. We could guess what we might have done better but its too difficult to leave that to the students. I understand that this take more time. How about a comprehensive list of usual errors done (fawlty analysis, sloppy referencing, some core points not being answered etc. As it was now we just kept guessing»
- Maylor, the book is too heavy to read in two weeks with another course going on. Divide it into two "duggor" and specify what part of the book that is in what dugga.»
- the time for pm basic test »

19. Additional comments

- No comment.»
- These are suggestions, i do not pretend to teach a smart teacher his work :)»
- thanks»
- Thanks for a great course!»
- The course in general was really good, however, I would like to mention that having some free time after lectures is very important to International Students as me, because with this "free time" it is possible to socialize better with the Swedish society, learn the Swedish language, to do internships or even to have the possibility of finding a part time job in order to help us to afford with our living cost. Tack så mycket»
- one can see that Jan loves to teach this course, this helped me to keep motivated through the study period..»
- Because of the pace (and I have to add another course plus my side project plus other things that as a newcomer in Sweden I have to do and think about) I had to lower the quality on some assignments. As the deadlines were approaching, so I just concentrated to "do the job", instead of trying to learn. Same goes for the Maylor book, I couldn"t read it as much as I"d like to before the basics test, as I didn"t know that the book was announced before the study period started (it"s my first year). I know it is a difficult problem to solve, but I just wanted to point it out.»
- It was an interesting course. I learned a lot. Thank you for your support.»
- Microsoft project is a course by itself.»
- Quite strange for a French student. We don"t have at all the same way of working. Good luck for next year ! »
- This course have been extremely inspiring and worthwhile even though the extremely high pace.»
- The speed of correcting cases was to slow and you didn"t get any feedback from the cases. You never knew what you did good or bad. I got an 8, yay! But what did the teacher actually like about this case? Would learn much more if we got some comments and could reflect of our work with the comments in mind.»
- I don"t know if it will be the best lesson ever, but it was pretty unique.»
- One of the best courses I"ve attended at Chalmers, and was not even that interested in project management. Goes to show how important good teachers are!»
- For me, Project Management is the most difficult course so far. may be it is because I am a science student. I mean it looks a social science course.»
- Inspiring to have a enthusiastic teacher!»
- Definitely one of the best courses I"ve read so far!»
- Thank you Jan for the good teaching you offer! »
- With mandatory tasks for each week it was hard to keep up with my other course. Maybe skip one of the cases to remove some of the workload.»
- Keep up the good work!»
- Fun course (quite unexpected at first)!»
- It was very helpful to get good basis and interest in real life situations of project management. Learnt how to search for technical references for complement the work »
- Good job »
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- Im very happy with the course. I"ve become more mature when it comes to people and relations in general (im serious). I had not considered some aspects of organizations before and therefore this is true.»
- Great course, too bad I could not take full advantage from it.»


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