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Project Management Overview (1.50 Units)
MGMT X402.2
This course is an introduction to project management, the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and project team, and project methodologies, including Traditional/Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid methodologies. Students will learn what happens at each stage of the project life cycle and will explore the importance of tailoring to fit their own project context.
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Project Initiation (1.50 Units)
MGMT X402.3
Have a project in mind for your organization? This course provides the information you need to get started on the right foot. Before any project work can begin, it’s important to do a bit of background research. Some critical elements to establish at the beginning of any project include creating a business case to justify the project for your organization, identifying your stakeholders and a plan to manage them, coming up with the project requirements that must be accounted for, and setting up a project team with the characteristics needed to support and complete this specific project.
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Project Planning and Risk (1.50 Units)
MGMT X402.4
This course covers key components of project planning and documentation. Students will learn about the project management plan, Work Breakdown Structures for waterfall, agile, and hybrid methods, and subsidiary management plans. The subsidiary plans will include scope and risk management strategies. Students will create all these components based upon a project of their choice.
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Project Schedule & Cost (1.50 Units)
MGMT X402.5
To meet stakeholder requirements and successfully complete a project, project managers need to be mindful of both schedule and cost. In this course, students will learn how to estimate a timeline and develop integrated schedules and milestones, calculate critical path, calculate approximate cost and establish a project budget, and track project performance and value delivery for benefit realization.
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Project Stakeholders & Change Management (1.50 Units)
MGMT X402.6
Projects involve multiple stakeholders and can require change management to see them through to successful completion. This course teaches participants how to identify and assess stakeholders, assess the impact of change, manage resistance and engage their organization in change, and communicate that change to others.
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Project Procurement (1.50 Units)
MGMT X402.7
Projects can require procurement of goods or services from parties outside your organization. This course educates students about the various types of contracts and associated risks that exist, the lifecycle of a typical contract, how to select vendors, and how to perform and make changes to a contract to ensure project success.
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Agile Project Management (2.00 Units)
MGMT X402.8
Agile project management is an iterative project methodology that works well for a wide variety of projects. This course teaches students what the agile methodology is and focuses on components of this methodology, including, developing product roadmaps, prioritization methods for a product backlog, managing/executing work through SCRUM and kanban practices, and measuring value delivery through agile reporting.
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Project Leadership & Communication (2.00 Units)
MGMT X402.9
The bulk of the work of a project manager is leading a project team and communicating with that team and project stakeholders. In this course, students will learn how to apply verbal and written communication, conflict management and problem solving, virtual team management, and team empowerment and motivation skills to serve as effective project leaders.
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