Project Management

Formerly  MGMT 290 - same content

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Project Management examines the organization, planning, and control of projects and provides
practical knowledge on managing project scope, schedule and resources. Topics include project life
cycle, work breakdown structure and Gantt charts, network diagrams, scheduling techniques, and
resource allocation decisions. Concepts are applied through team projects and tutorials using project
management software.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
After this course, you should be able to:
– Understand the context of project management
– Perform a project initiation
– Understand how to perform a project planning
– Understand how to perform a scope planning
– Understand how to perform a schedule planning
– Understand how to perform a resource planning
– Understand the basic tools used for estimating
– Understand the different types of project risk
– Understand the concept of project execution
– Understand how to perform a project control
– Understand how to perform a project closeout

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of this course students should be able to use and understand the following tools:
– Chapter 1 - Project Management Context
– Chapter 2 - Project Initiation
– Chapter 3 - Project Planning
– Chapter 4 - Scope Planning
– Chapter 5 - Schedule Planning
– Chapter 6 - Resource Planning
– Chapter 7 - Estimating
– Chapter 8 - Project Risk
– Chapter 9 - Project Execution
– Chapter 10 - Project Control
– Chapter 11 - Project Closeout