Evgeny Trushkin's seminar on logistics project management was held at the School of Logistics

On March 22-23, 2019, the HSE School of Logistics held a seminar on managing logistics projects "in the field". Within two days, participants had the opportunity to get acquainted with the realities of the project manager's activities and to test themselves in his role.

During the theoretical part of the seminar participants learned the basics of preparation and implementation of the project. For this purpose, the whole series of actions of the project manager was demonstrated in the case of a fictitious enterprise in the consulting industry - from the request for the project, preparation of technical and commercial proposals, drawing up the contract and ending with the project itself.

During the training the participants of the seminar got acquainted with such concepts as: 

• RFI, RFP
• Technical and commercial proposal
• Lump Sum and Times & Materials contract forms
• Risk management
• Plan of works
• Project team structure
• Stakeholder management
• Quality, time and cost control
• Business ethics
• Mentalities differences in international projects

During the practical part of the seminar the participants, divided into teams, applied their knowledge for the case of the transport industry.