Course Description
Planning, scheduling, organizing, implementing, and controlling of single and multiple projects. This course explores traditional and new techniques for the dynamic environment of project management.
Athena Title
Project Management
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7220E
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Course Objectives: To introduce the student to the need for and environment of project management. To review traditional approaches to planning, organizing, staffing and controlling of single and multiple projects environments. To identify problems with traditional approaches to project management. To present Theory of Constraints approaches to planning, organizing, staffing and controlling of projects. To explore the use of project management concepts in a multiproject environment. Through class exercises and cases and individual and group projects and simulations, to develop a holistic approach to planning, scheduling and controlling projects in today's business environment.
Topical Outline
The following topics are covered in this course: The need for projects Single project and multiproject environments Planning, scheduling, and controlling using traditional project management (Program Evaluation and Review Technique). Problems with traditional single and multiproject methodologies Planning, scheduling, and controlling using critical chain project management Performance measurement in projects Computerized software solutions
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