Project Management (PMGT)

Discusses tips and best practices for preparing for the PMI certification exam.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores a system of value delivery and how projects operate within a system to produce value for organizations and their stakeholders. Covers recognizing value delivery components and how they work together to deliver organizational value that is aligned with the organization’s strategy.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores project management principles as foundational guidelines for strategy, decision making, and problem solving in the context of the organization, project, deliverables, project team, stakeholders, and other factors.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores the concept of project domains and team performance. Examines team dynamics and essential personal skills necessary to achieve project outcomes.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores activities and functions associated with the development approach, cadence, and life cycle phases of the project.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores activities and functions associated with the initial, ongoing, and evolving organization and coordination necessary to deliver project deliverables and outcomes.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores activities and functions associated with establishing project processes, managing physical resources, fostering a learning environment, and delivering the scope and quality of the project.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores assessment of a project's performance and how to manage uncertainty and risk.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores how projects are deliberately adapted throughout the lifecycle in order to make them more suitable for the given environment and work.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores how leadership, communication, motivation, change, complexity, and team development affect models, methods, and artifacts used in project management.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Explores tools and situational guidelines for the various agile approaches available to project managers. Examines how new project managers understand and adapt the agile approach.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Flexible Option Program and consent of program representative.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) specified by Project Management Institute (PMI) in detail. Includes life cycle, processes, integration, scope, time, cost, human resources, communication, risk and procurement.

Prerequisites: QM 210; completion of a minimum of 54 credits.

Offered: Fall.

Provides a background in personal skills essential for effective project management, including general intelligence; emotional intelligence; groups and teams; project leadership; stress; ethics; and communication.

Prerequisites: None.

Offered: Fall, Summer.

Covers advanced tools and techniques of project management, including Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Excel, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), budgeting a project, scheduling a project using PERT/CPM, allocating scarce resources, critical chain and critical path, resource leveling, monitoring the project costs, evaluating and terminating a project. Multi-career cross-listing: CIS 641.

Prerequisites: PMGT 341.

Offered: Spring.

Includes project scheduling, risk analysis, earned value, and teamwork. Applies project management skills to a simulated or live project, develop project justification and plan, and execute the plan and track performance. Multi-career cross-listing: CIS 642.

Prerequisites: PMGT 341, PMGT 342.

Offered: Spring.