MBA 675: Project Planning & Management

Project management as a discipline is applicable to business projects of all types and required balancing the demands for time, quality, scope, and cost inherent in any project. This course is designed to provide the project management knowledge necessary for a business executive, manager, consultant, or entrepreneur to successfully initiate, plan and execute projects. It is structured to provide principles, methodology, and practical information through a combination of lectures, assignments, group collaboration, and hands-on exercises. Some of the topics include project, program, and portfolio management; project selection, and project plan development; Work Breakdown Structures, Change Control, Gantt Charts; project and product life-cycle methodologies, communications, and stakeholder management; and management tools.