Course Overview
This course introduces the fundamentals of project management including both predictive and adaptive development approaches, activities and tools used in a project. The course focuses on planning and provides an opportunity to apply a range of management methods necessary to deliver value. Students in this course will be introduced to the history and rationale of agile project management, the required roles and environment necessary for agile teams to be successful, and how an agile project operates. Projects are unique and uncertain environments and managing this uncertainty and tailoring the project approach is critical to a successful project. The course is consistent with the Project Management Body of Knowledge and the Standard for Project Management.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Project environment
- Describe project characteristics, project management practices and guiding principles.
- Explain the importance of organizational structures and culture and their impacts on managing project teams and delivering project value.
- Apply common project frameworks, adaptive (agile) and predictive (waterfall), and their uses.
- Compare the approach and impact of predictive and adaptive methodologies.
Initiating
- Use project screening, selection and governance methods.
- Construct a Project Charter.
Planning
- Predictive
- Define stakeholder value and deliverable requirements.
- Develop scope, schedules and budget using appropriate tools (WBS, Network diagram).
- Plan resource utilization.
- Apply risk management and quality planning.
- Adaptive
- Explain the rationale for agile methodologies in software development project.
- Describe the Agile Manifesto and the Twelve Principles of Agile Software.
- Develop a Product Vision and Roadmap.
- Explain how agile methodologies affect project scope, schedule, cost, communication, quality and risk.
- Use agile methods, specifically Scrum Methodology, to manage a project.
Closing
- Explain the role of project governance processes in closing out projects.
- Describe project closing activities.
- Evaluate project team performance using lessons learned.
Software
- Apply project management techniques using project management software/simulation.
Effective as of Winter 2024
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Project Management (OPMT 1174) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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