Course Description
The Project+ course is designed to help students master the skills needed to be a successful project manager. Students can expect to gain knowledge on recognized practices of project management, a project’s life cycle, roles, and skills necessary to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control and close a project. The course focus point is learning the ability to initiate, manage, and support a project or business initiative. Working through case studies with real-world scenarios, you will interact with fellow students to learn and apply the methodologies and good practices of formal project management.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following:
- Identify the fundamentals of project management
- Initiate a project
- Create project plans, stakeholder strategies, and scope statement
- Develop a Work Breakdown Structure and activity lists
- Develop project schedule and identify the critical path
- Plan project costs
- Create project staffing and quality management plans
- Create an effective communication plan
- Create a risk management plan, perform risk analysis, and develop a risk response plan
- Plan project procurements
- Develop change management and transition plans
- Assemble and launch the project team to execute the plan
- Execute the project procurement plan
- Monitor and control project performance
- Monitor and control project constraints
- Monitor and control project risks
- Monitor and control procurements
- Perform project closure activities