This course guides students through fundamental project management concepts and behavioral skills needed to success-fully launch, lead, and realize benefits from projects in profit and nonprofit organizations. Successful project managers skillfully manage their resources, schedules, risks, and scope to produce a desired outcome. In this course, students explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through case studies and class exercises.

CILO-1: Use a structured and standards-based approach to prepare a project management plan to international standards, incorporating appropriate supporting plans, schedules, budget and specific outputs/deliverables for each step of the plan. CILO-2: Use the broad guidelines to project management provided in the international standard to manage projects. CILO-3: Collect requirements, define scope, and manage requests for scope changes. CILO-4: Develop a realistic schedule which meets the stakeholders' constraints. CILO-5: Develop project cost estimates and control project budgets. CILO-6: Determine the requirement of appropriate project resources. CILO-7: Describe the sources of project risks, and the management approach to control risks. CILO-8: Establish a project’s quality objectives and appropriate controls and measures to ensure quality outcomes are achieved. CILO-9: Manage project suppliers and external stakeholders. CILO-10: Build effective teams which are committed to the project goals.