PROJ - Project Management

This course is designed to provide a broad knowledge of project management. It introduces students to the various types of project management organization and the detailed business and technical management procedures and human skills necessary to successfully manage any size project in the areas of research, product development, information systems, production, services, and construction. The course discusses scope management time, management, cost management, risk management, quality management, change management, team management, and integration management.

This course covers risk management planning and control in all phases of a project. Students will be exposed to and learn the techniques, models, and tools used for risk identification and quantitative as well as qualitative risk analysis. The course also covers topics in risk response planning, monitoring, and control.

This is an advanced course in project management that discusses in more detail several aspects of project management. This course considers how to deal with a variety of stakeholders and ways to consider optimizing stakeholder involvement and how, and why, various social roles are needed on projects. The formation and expectations of differing kinds of teams are covered in order to set up management expectations about results. Change to the organization as a result of a technological innovation is reviewed, and a detail analysis of a case study covered. Also considered are surfacing assumptions about the change process and correctly identifying them. Students will use a parametric analysis to construct an overall approach to a project. The results of a project need to be integrated within existing environments. Issues dealing with change management, power, and the social roles of innovations are addressed. Team formation and various kinds of teams are reviewed considering the context within which they must perform.

This course introduces students to one of the most highly evolved quality management methodologies: Six Sigma Process Improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of different size. (Included as an optional course in the Project management concentration and in the Technology and Operations Management concentration.)

This course provides exposure to strategies that help formulate and execute an effective outsourcing strategy. Current trends in business process outsourcing (BPO) will be analyzed to determine an effective outsourcing model in accordance with the organization’s mission, objectives, and capabilities.

This course examines industry-proven methods, techniques, and tools for cost estimation and control in all phases of a project. Students will learn how to develop estimates of monetary resources needed to execute and finish the different project activities using different techniques including expert judgment, parametric estimates, analogous estimates, and others. Students will also learn overall cost management, budgeting, and cost control.

This course introduces project portfolio management and its importance for achieving strategic business goals. Students will learn how to establish and manage related projects in an organization using industry-proven techniques, metrics, and tools. This course focuses on identifying, prioritizing, authorizing, and controlling project programs in order to making sure that the organization is investing in the project initiatives.

This course examines and covers project processes of acquiring, purchasing and managing products and services necessary to accomplish the different project activities. Students will learn how to conduct make-or-buy analysis, manage bidding and select sellers, negotiate and manage contracts, as well as other procurement activities.

This is the capstone course in the MSPM program. Upon successful completion of this course, students are prepared to take the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification exam. Students review the different knowledge areas in project management: scope, time, cost, quality, risk, human resources, procurement, integration, and communication. Students apply project management skills gained throughout the program for project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closing.