Project Management and Leadership for Complex Systems

Catalog description

This course examines fundamental modern techniques of project management from a systems perspective, including project planning, organization, and control. Topics include leadership, the management process, risk management, scheduling methodologies, management of project activities, and project control mechanisms. Complex systems are addressed at larger scales including combinations of novel, evolving, and legacy systems, implementing adaptive leadership and management strategies and approaches. Complex system leadership, management, risk analysis and mitigation, integrated product and process development, quality management, and contracting are addressed. Complex system leadership and management also includes consideration of communications, interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, ethics, team dynamics, multiple disciplines, varying scales, uncertainty, and nonlinearity. Covers application of fundamental project leadership and management processes from traditional systems to more complex systems.