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Managing Projects (627)
Credits: 3
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Project Management involves a single
manager responsible for planning, organizing, staffing,
coordinating, directing, monitoring, motivating and
controlling the combined efforts of all of the functional
and staff groups within an organization, together with
outside contractors and vendors. The goal is to meet
the project's objectives on schedule, within budget,
and to the customer's satisfaction.
Course 627 addresses
the reality of how complicated and diverse is the
project manager's task. Project management is a recognized,
special, professional skill, quite different from the
technical skills that are so often associated with
most
projects. It is on these important non-technical
areas that this course touches in great detail. From
this
course degree candidates receive in-depth knowledge
of the various types of project-management organization
and expertise to successfully manage any size project
in the areas of information systems, research, product
development, production, services and construction.
Subjects covered include:
| Management |
Risk Management |
| Introduction to Project/Program |
Project Integration |
| Project/Program Authority |
Work Authorization |
| Project Organization |
Earned Value Management Systems |
| Planning the Project |
Technical Performance Measurement |
| Work Breakdown Structure |
Quality Management |
| Schedules |
Managing Small Projects |
| Financial Planning |
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| Increase
Your Understanding of |
• Scope Definition
• Work Breakdown Structures
• Scheduling Techniques
• Time Management
• Cost Management
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| Improve Your
Ability to |
• Organize a project team
• Plan a project
• Determine requirements and scope
• Use a WBS
• Estimate and budget a project
• Develop objective measures of performance
• Use risk analysis
• Build and maintain a project baseline
• Monitor and control project work
• Lead and manage project teams.
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Professor:
Geoffrey VanderPal, B.S.B.A., M.B.A., D.B.A.
Text: Project
Manager’s Handbook,
AGU Press |