Program Name: Project Management
Program Length: 18 Semester Credit Hours
Program Overview:
The Project Management program provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage projects effectively. Students will examine project phases and life cycles and develop communication skills for engaging key project stakeholders. They will learn how to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and close a project. Furthermore, students will explore key project constraints, such as scope, time, and cost, and develop work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, and risk registers to plan and execute projects successfully. Upon completion of the program, students will be able to manage risks, procurements, and resources, in combination with quality assurance and quality control processes to ensure a high-quality project deliverable.
Program Outcomes:
Upon completion of this program, students are expected to be able to:
•Plan and manage the scope of a project
•Create a work breakdown structure (WBS)
•Develop a project management plan
•Monitor and control project work
•Develop and manage a project schedule
•Develop and manage a project budget
•Perform quality assurance and quality control
•Communicate with project stakeholders
•Plan and conduct project procurements
•Identify, analyze, and strategize responses for project risks
•Manage project resources and develop project teams
Listed below are summaries of each course within the program.
PM131 Project Management Framework Essentials & Business Domain 3 Credits
This course provides the student with an understanding of the principles of the project management framework and the project management business environment domain in alignment with standards accepted by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
The project management framework consists of the processes, tasks, and tools used to take a project from start to finish. It encompasses the key components required for:
•Planning
•Managing
•Governing projects
The project management business environment domain consists of high-level knowledge that is essential to the practice of project management applying to:
•Planning and managing project compliance
•Evaluating and delivering project benefits and value
•Evaluating and addressing external business environmental changes for impact on scope, and supporting organizational change
The course will identify key project management concepts and terms and provide information about the variables that can influence project outcomes, influence of project stakeholders, organizational influences on a project, and how organizations evaluate which projects to pursue and monitor and track project value.
PM132 Project Management People Domain 3 Credits
Prerequisites: PM131 Project Management Framework Essentials & Business Domain
This course provides the student with an understanding of the principles of the project management people domain in alignment with standards accepted by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
The project management people domain consists of the soft skills required to successfully manage projects. These skills include processes, tasks, and tools embedded in the project communications management, project stakeholder management, and project resource management knowledge areas that are employed to:
•Lead project teams
•Create and develop teams
•Lead project teams in an Agile/Adaptive project life cycle
•Manage project resources
•Communicate effectively as a project manager in Traditional/Predictive project life cycles
•Effectively engage with team members and other project stakeholders as a project manager in Traditional/Predictive project life cycles
•Effectively engage and communicate with team members and other project stakeholders as a project manager in Adaptive/Agile project life cycles
PM133 Project Management Process Domain I 3 Credits
Prerequisites: PM131 Project Management Framework Essentials & Business Domain and PM132 Project Management People Domain
The project management process domain consists of the technical skills required to successfully manage projects. This course addresses the processes, tasks, and tools embedded in the project integration management, and project scope management knowledge areas that are employed to:
•Understand the ongoing interactions between project management knowledge area processes during project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing
•Integrate accepted change requests into the project management plan
•Document project activities
•Manage the project through its phases
•Communicate project deliverables to project stakeholders effectively as a Project Manager in Traditional/Predictive and Agile/Adaptive project life cycles
•Maintain project artifacts
•Determine major project stakeholders
•Gather project requirements in Traditional/Predictive and Agile/Adaptive project life cycles
•Define the project scope in Traditional/Predictive and Agile/Adaptive project life cycles
•Manage project Scope requirements in Traditional/Predictive and Agile/Adaptive project life cycles
PM134 Project Management Process Domain II 3 Credits
Prerequisites: PM131 Project Management Framework Essentials & Business Domain, PM132 Project Management People Domain, and PM133 Project Management Process Domain I
The project management process domain consists of the technical skills required to successfully manage projects. This course addresses the processes, tasks, and tools embedded in the project schedule management knowledge area that are employed to:
•Plan a schedule in Traditional/Predictive life cycles
•Define activities in Traditional/Predictive life cycles
•Create project schedules in Traditional/Predictive life cycles
•Optimize schedule networks in Traditional/Predictive project life cycles
•Monitor and control the project schedule during the project in Traditional/Predictive project life cycles
•Plan and track work in Agile/Adaptive project life cycles
PM135 Project Management Process Domain III 3 Credits
Prerequisites: PM131 Project Management Framework Essentials & Business Domain, PM132 Project Management People Domain, PM133 Project Management Process Domain I, and PM134 Project Management Process Domain II
The project management process domain consists of the technical skills required to successfully manage projects. This course addresses the processes, tasks, and tools embedded in the project cost management and project quality management knowledge areas that are employed to:
•Plan a budget in Traditional/Predictive life cycles
•Estimate activity costs in Traditional/Predictive life cycles
•Create project budgets in Traditional/Predictive life cycles
•Optimize schedule networks in Traditional/Predictive project life cycles
•Monitor and control the project budget during the project in Traditional/Predictive project life cycles
•Control the project budget using earned value management (EVM) calculations
•Plan and track work costs in Agile/Adaptive project life cycles
•Create a project quality plan
•Establish project quality standards
•Implement project quality assurance
•Implement project quality control
•Delivery project products, services, and results per the project quality standards
•Delivering project quality in Agile/Adaptive project life cycles
PM136 Project Management Process Domain IV 3 Credits
Prerequisites: PM131 Project Management Framework Essentials & Business Domain, PM132 Project Management People Domain, PM133 Project Management Process Domain I, PM134 Project Management Process Domain II, and PM135 Project Management Process Domain III
The project management process domain consists of the technical skills required to successfully manage projects. This course addresses the processes, tasks, and tools embedded in the project risk management and project procurement management knowledge areas that are employed to:
•Define and identify potential project risk events
•Perform project risk analysis
•Manage and control project risk
•Implement project procurement strategies
•Perform vendor selection
•Manage and control selected vendors