Project Management for Business

This course provides students with an examination of project management techniques, tools and strategies. Through lectures, team-based exercises and simulations, students gain exposure to proven methodology used to manage projects from inception to implementation to monitoring and evaluation. Topics include: root cause analysis, project definition, lifecycles, planning, risk management, control and reporting. This course provides participants with valuable insights to more effectively and efficiently manage small to mid-sized projects.

Delivering effective projects requires organizational planning, team building, communication and human resources management. Participants examine how to assess, plan, implement, manage and monitor a project's human resource requirements, communications and leadership roles and responsibilities. Topics include identifying and managing project staffing requirements, leadership roles and responsibilities, personnel reporting and dynamics with two or more managers/supervisors, teamwork and team development, outsourcing, information dissemination, performance reporting, project information storage and retrieval, confidentiality and ethics and professional accountability/responsibility.

From project inception through implementation and analysis, this course explores basic concepts of structured project management, including scheduling, budgeting and risk management from both opportunity and threat perspectives. Topics include: risk identification and analysis, activity planning and sequencing, schedule development, cost estimating, budgeting and resource allocation.