Management of Projects

Catalog description

A problem-based capstone course that integrates the themes necessary to appreciate the overall challenge of project management. MANGT 575 Management of Projects (3) Project management has been labeled by Fortune magazine as the number one career choice for the coming decade. Increasingly, organizations are adopting project management techniques and structures within their business framework. Project management offers the twin advantages of allowing organizations to create products and processes efficiently, through optimal use of resources, and rapidly, in order to respond to rapid time-to-market demands. This course serves as a capstone experience intended to require students to be able to integrate the various elements from the previous set of project management courses they have covered. The course requires all other courses as prerequisites or co-requisites so that students may be sufficiently knowledgeable to synthesize all prior material. The role of the instructor in this course is to promote student learning of a wide variety of knowledge and skills required for successful project management. These include understanding the complex, widely diverse nature of the skills and knowledge required of modern project managers. In order to cover sufficiently the capstone material, students must have a thorough background in the various issues that comprise this capstone experience.