Foundations of Project Management
PMAN 634 | 3 Credits
Course Desc: An overview of the theory and practice of managing projects in any organization or industry using traditional, agile, and hybrid methodologies. All three skill sets of the Project Management Institute Talent Triangle are addressed: Technical Project Management, Leadership, and Strategic and Business Management and provide a foundational project management knowledge and skill base that is highly relevant to workplace project challenges. Emphasis is on blending hard and soft skills to realize superior project outcomes. Skills associated with harnessing diversity, building, leading, and motivating project teams, communications, conflict management, and emotional intelligence are intertwined with tools and techniques drawn from all ten of the project management knowledge areas: integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder with emphasis on Integration Management and Scope Management. These skills and techniques are contextualized to predictive (traditional) and adaptive (agile) life cycles and to the initiation, planning, executing, monitoring/control, and closure of a project. Emphasis is on the need to constantly align projects with value creation using practices and approaches that are tailored to mission, vision, and strategy of an organization, to the needs and priorities of stakeholders, and to organizational culture and mores.
