Course

Objective:

Learning Outcomes:

• Create a project by diagramming business cases, project feasibility studies, and calculations of opportunity cost
• Analyze the steps involved in project planning, such as resource management, work breakdown structure, and contingencies
• Outline the creation and evaluation of project proposals
• Assess management of time and cost on a project, risk management, procurement and resource leveling, and the creation of status reports
• Formulate the metrics of project management, the procedure for closing a project and the compilation of a report, and post-project customer review
• Estimate the cost of a project, the value of work, cost variance, efficiency, and cost control
• Compare the variables in, and types of, supplier contracts and vendors
• Evaluate team goals, objectives, and conflicts while comparing the benefits of virtual teams and methods of effective communication
• Consider contemporary organizational designs, the functional structure, and the matrix structure
• Appraise the methods and tools of system development, life cycles, development of a graphical user interface, application development, and project roles for system development
• Analyze project management skills and ethical beliefs, including the evaluation of the organizational culture as described by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

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