Project Management

PROJ 6301 (3-3-0) Organizing the Project and Its Components

Competency-based practitioner approach to breaking down a project into pieces that can be scheduled, tracked, and controlled. Equip graduates with concepts, tools, and language of project management that can be applied to any size and type project. Learn applied aspects of the definition phase of the project life cycle.

Requisites: None.

Offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.

PROJ 6302 (3-3-0) Assessing, Managing, and Mitigating Project Risk

Risk management is a key competency in project management. Managers must be able to apply a variety of risk-management tools in their work, including performing risk identification, quantification, response, monitoring, and control. Participants will examine the nature and types of project risk and learn to apply specific mitigation strategies. Included is analyzing an ongoing project personally worked on and assessing specific risks. Next, analyzing outcomes will be key in identifying risks that may have come to fruition, leading indicators, contingency planning at the beginning, asking questions to enable enhanced performance/determine probability project will finish within allocated resources (including time). Competency-based, practitioner approach to project management.

Requisites: PROJ 6301.

Offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.

PROJ 6303 (3-3-0) Project Approaches and Strategy

Sometimes the customer does not know what they need/want until they see an early iteration and can provide feedback. Because of this, work is usually done incrementally. It is critical to build flexibility, agility, into the model in order to maximize success. Designed for project managers who want to get better practical results with adaptive approaches to projects. Topics include structures, start to execute plan, critical monitoring, and changing and modifying projects. Essential approaches to post-mortem and lessons learned documentation, communication plans, portfolio and program management/financials are learned. Students will be most successful having a foundational understanding of tools and processes learned in PROJ 6301 and 6302. Competency-based, practitioner approach to project management.

Requisites: PROJ 6301.

Offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.

PROJ 6304 (3-3-0) Planning and Managing Resources Capstone

Participants complete a comprehensive project plan including maturity models, enterprise project management, and all phases of the project management process life cycle. Applying real deliverables to ongoing business/industries learned within the project management specialty studied. Competency-based, practitioner approach to project management.

Requisites: PROJ 6301, 6302, and 6303.

Offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.