Trabajo Final de Grado: In-Company Project (18GBD99022)

General information

Type:	TFP	Curs:	5	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	6 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

This course seeks to guide students' use of the knowledge and application of the tools acquired during the BBA programme to carry out their Final Degree Projects (from here on TFG), specifically, carrying out a project for an organisation.

This course has been designed to ensure the success of this individual assignment and includes tutorials (aimed at favouring guided work and specific supervision from tutors). Students should bear in mind that a major part of the process of undertaking the TFG is down to the students themselves, as they will have to complete the TFG through independent study as planned for in the course credits.

6 ECTS = 120 hours work by the student
- Work with an Academic Tutor: between 10 and 20 hours
- Independent study: approx. 100 hours

The Final Degree Project (TFG). The in-company project is an opportunity for students to individually integrate the knowledge acquired from the range of courses studied in addition to the skills developed through the various learning scenarios offered by the BBA programme. In this sense undertaking this course and in particular the quality of the TFG will demonstrate the degree to which students have achieved the programme's learning aims.

Furthermore, undertaking the Final Degree Project is a fundamentally integrating endeavour, completing the educational development of the BBA degree programme with regard to three fundamental areas:

a. Foster students' self-organisation

b. Learn about issues and problems in terms of their full complexity

c. Apply students' knowledge through the completion of tasks that truly reflect professional activity.

The learning aims of the course are that, on completion of the Final Degree Project, students:

- Have integrated the knowledge acquired during the degree programme as well as made progress with the skills and competences they have worked on over the course of their degree studies.

- Have been able to apply their acquired knowledge to design and implement a specific project for an organisation.

1. Final Degree Project: In-Company Business Project modality (TFG: IP) The Final Degree Project: In-Company Business Project modality (TFG: IP) offers students the opportunity to broaden and consolidate their knowledge by undertaking a project in a company. The company will preferably be the one in which students completed their internships, although they can complete the project in a different company. The project will allow students to put in to practice and deepen the knowledge they have acquired linked to a specialisation, a function and/or specific area of an organisation's activity: marketing, finance, strategic consultancy, audits, etc. At the same time, the project will offer students the opportunity to broaden their relationship with the world of the chosen company and deepen their knowledge of how it functions as an organisation. In addition to the assistance provided by the company's designated staff to carry out the project, students will receive support from a tutor who will advise them on the design of the project and the drafting of the report. If the project is undertaken in the same company as for the internship, the academic tutor the student had for the internship would be the ideal person to act as tutor for the TFG. The project will be written up as a report that students present as their Final Degree Project. The report will be written irrespective of whether the project has been implemented (partially or fully) or not. The writing of and presentation of the report involve: a. A document of no less than 5,000 words and no more than 8,000. The report is to be developed in a progressive manner, whereby, in accordance with their tutors' instructions, students will have presented one or a number of preliminary sections before the final submission. The thesis must be submitted via the course website. b. Give a 10-minute presentation on the project at a set time on the dates established by Programme Management. c. Collaborate with the tutor and submit draft versions of the report as they are developed and discuss recent progress with the tutor. What should a project report contain? The basic structure of the report will be as follows: - Explanation of the project's raison d'être: what need and/or opportunity does it seek to address, why and what are the desired results (WHY and WHAT). - Detailed description of the activities to be undertaken in order to achieve the project's forecast results (action plan), the schedule for these activities (project phases or stages), the organisation of these (who will do what and with what resources) and the monitoring system to verify the project's progress (HOW). - Justification of the methodology adopted to undertake the project (the HOW described in the previous section) supported with arguments on the basis of the knowledge acquired in the courses related to the function or area of activity within which the project is undertaken. This section should include a brief analysis of the pros and cons of the chosen methodology. - Relevant appendices: bibliography and information sources, graphs, etc.

ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN

Burke, R. (2014). Project Management - Planning & Control Techniques. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Drudis, A. (2010). Gestión de proyectos: Cómo planificarlos, organizarlos y dirigirlos. Barcelona: Gestión 2000.