Aspects of project management with regard to leadership, managerial processes, and tools essential to successful project completion. Service-learning project includes application of skills and knowledge learned in the course. Hands-on project resulting in the conceptualization, design, prototyping, and development of a software system for an external/internal client.
Athena Title
Project Management
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in MIST 5740S
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Prerequisite
MIST 4600 or MIST 4600E or MIST 4610 or MIST 4610E or MIST 5750 or MIST 5750E
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will, in collaboration with their group, map the conceptual entities found in project management documents onto their real-world team project in order to generate standard project artifacts.
Students will deliver polished presentations and written reports that (a) evaluate the root-causes of well-known project successes and failures, including their societal impacts, and (b) document their own project’s initiation and planning phases including meta-cognitive reflections on learning strategies, problem solving, and self-management.
Students will collaborate with AI tools to uncover task details and realistic estimates unavailable through traditional means (e.g., organization's past projects), while identifying and mitigating risks such as AI hallucinations, bias, or over-agreement.
Students will engage in interpersonal and team building skills by initiating contact with potential external clients, persuading potential clients to participate, eliciting business needs through targeted questioning, and developing a project report and presentation along with their group. Students will engage with peers in class through project status updates, case discussions, and problem-solving activities.
Topical Outline
What is a project?
Overview of traditional project management - defining, planning, executing, controlling, closing
Scoping the project
Identifying project activities
Estimating duration, resource requirements, and cost
Constructing, analyzing, and using project network diagrams
Finalizing the schedule and cost
Recruiting, organizing, and managing the project team
Monitoring and controlling progress
Critical chain project management
Closing out the project
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
