Business Technology for Consulting

Catalog description

In this course, you will learn to how to effectively lead and undertake information system analysis and design projects. In doing so you will develop your 'intellectual toolbox' for business technologies consulting by learning to apply specific tools and techniques such as BPMN and Agile development methodologies. You will practice applying these techniques on a variety of case studies, examples, and a substantial semester-long project. Beyond the concrete analysis and design techniques, you will develop a set of work practices and habits of thought that should serve you well in your consulting career. This will be a very hands-on course in which you will largely learn by doing. Most class sessions will include a combination of some presentation by the instructor, some discussion (possibly of a case study), and exercises to practice working with the day's tools and concepts. Homework assignments, in-class presentations, and a semester-long term project are essential parts of the course. Prerequisites: 70-110 or 70-451