XM 769 - Project Management

(1.50 cr.)

This course complements XM 768 by developing and presenting additional tools aimed at successfully designing, implementing, and completing projects in modern, often global, organizations. Students examine decision science tools, software, and global communications technologies related to episodic, time-constrained, complex, cross-functional, and enterprise-critical endeavors in areas such as the design of services and goods, major production process redesign, facility construction, and research. Topics include project alignment with regular operations; organizational structure options for projects; characteristics of good project leaders; team formation and management; control and delegation; CPM/PERT methods and latest software implementations; time-cost models; milestones; handling change orders and replanning; managing resources; communication with superiors; use of simulation and prototypes in design projects and case studies.