Principles of Applied Project Management

Catalog description

This course is a problem-based course in the application of project management processes, methods, techniques, and tools needed to manage projects in a modern business environment. The course covers the fundamental project management principles associated with initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects. Project charters, schedules, resource assignment matrices, and communication, risk, and quality control plans are all tools that can enhance effective project management and which are covered in the course. This course assumes that project management in the modern organization is a complex team-based activity, where application of effective leadership and team management principles are critical and where various types of technologies (including project management software as well as software to support group collaboration) are an inherent part of the project management process. This course also acknowledges that project management involves both the use of resources from within the firm, as well as contracted from outside the organization.