PM 6100 - Project Management I

This course is the first part for the Project Management course sequence. Students learn the skills, tools, and strategies required to meet the needs of managing complex projects. The topics in the course include initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects as well as project integration management, scope management, time management, cost management, human resource management, communications management, and risk management.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to analyze the importance of PM in the context of various organizational cultures and strategies, and summarize the essential components of a project and the processes that are considered essential to its successful implementation.
Students will be able to describe the typical PM process, its documentation, and deliverables that are produced in each project phase.
Students will be able to create a charter and a preliminary scope that document high-level project strategy, milestones, deliverables, and estimates for stakeholder, customer, and sponsor approval given an organizational context and project objectives.
Students will be able to identify necessary labor and material resources, including contracted resources, and estimate the units of each that are required to meet stakeholder expectations.
Students will be able to evaluate types of resource costs necessary to draw up a complete cost estimate, and determine the accounting category of each, such as direct, indirect, capital, and operating.
Students will be able to demonstrate the use of tools and techniques, such as CPM, fast tracking, crashing, and resource leveling, in typical PM software.
Students will be able to analyze the project data, classify various project expenditures, and recommend approaches for funding the project given a specific project context, which includes a plan, cost, schedule, and deliverable metrics.
Students will be able to evaluate how changes to project scope may impact the project’s schedule, cost, and quality, and create a scope document that will produce the desired project outcomes.
Students will be able to apply EVM techniques to assess the project cost and schedule.
Students will be able to construct a plan for best practices in business analysis, requirements elicitation, and requirements management that can be applied to a given project.
Students will be able to interpret the signs of a troubled project and assess whether the project manager should either continue operation or execute an early termination, and recommend what specific activities might be incorporated in the project.
Students will be able to construct a communication management plan that defines the participants, communication processes, tools, and methods required for appropriate project communication given an organizational context and project objectives.
Students will be able to demonstrate how teams are assigned and formed and describe the stages of team development.
Students will be able to describe the fundamental aspects of team structure, interpersonal dynamics, and the role of the project manager.
Students will be able to analyze the nature of stakeholder groups and summarize their impact on project performance.
Students will be able to evaluate and assess the importance of ethics and professionalism in every aspect of the project’s operation, and examine the factors that influence moral conduct.