1 COURSE SYLLABUS
MANAGEMENT OF IT PROJECT
2014
Instructors: Class A Class B Asistants: Day/ Hour:
Description:
The course will focus on the standard body of knowledge required by the Project Management Institute (PMI), which is the world’s leading certification organization for professionals in all disciplines of Project Management. The course will also serve to expand knowledge and skills in enterprise-systems IT project management, and will engage students in opportunities to learn how practices and procedures used in organizations. Particular focus will be on the constraints placed upon project managers in terms of staff capacity, complex system release timelines, cost, effort estimation approaches and quality, how these constraints relate to PMI® concepts, and how they are best managed in the execution of projects of varying scales. Textbooks:
1. Required: Schwalbe, Kathy. Managing Information Technology Project - Sixth Edition. Boston, MA: Thomson Course Technology, 2010. ( SCH.)
2. Recommended: Project Management Institute, Inc. A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) 4th Edition. (2008) ( PMBOK)
Learning Outcomes:
Students who complete this course successfully will be able to do the following, as they relate to projects in information and communications technology (ICT):
2 2. Explain how project managers are credentialed by professional organizations, and how
project management careers develop in small and large organizations.
3. Articulate the sequence of activities in a typical ICT project, and distinguish the approaches of both Classic and Agile project methodologies regarding the deliverables suited to each method.
4. Describe the deliverables that are typical outcomes of project management activities, and recall differences between those of small vs. large-scale, global projects.
5. Recall specific challenges of managing projects, global environments across time zones, cultures and languages, specifically in the areas of communications, team management and motivation, meetings, cross-functional teams, matrixes management and virtual team environments.
Project Management Topic Areas Explored:
1. Overview of Projects and Project Management Theory and Concepts 2. The Project Management Institute’s Project Management Knowledge Areas
Project Management Approaches, Tools and Deliverables based upon examples from Small as well as Large-scale, Global Organizations
3. The Nature of Real-world Project Management in Small as well as Large-scale, Global Organizations
Learning Approaches:
1. Readings and supplemental examples will form the foundation for class lectures, discussions and student work submissions.
2. Lectures, Discussions and Case Studies will explain important theoretical concepts using practical examples and real-world situations drawn from organization.
3. Assignments will demonstrate the student’s understanding of the concepts and the student’s ability to construct or present the typical work products expected of real-world project managers. There will be three (3) assignments submitted during the semester. Course Evaluation (tentative):
1. Quizzes : 10%
2. Assignment 1 (Personal) : 10% 3. Asisgnment 2 (Personal) : 10% 4. Assignment 3 (Group) : 15%
2. Assignment 2 (PERSONAL): Create Gantt Chart based on a case study
3 student structures information about resources, time constraints, costs and detailed scheduling from the real organization. And how the student organizes the information about the case problem and creates the typical project management documents that explain to stakeholders how the project will be designed.
Detail description can be seen in the assignment announcement.
COURSE SYLLABUS
Week Topics Reading Note
Week 1
Review of Syllabus, Context of Course.
Introduction of Project Management
Ch 1
Week 2 The Project Management and IT
Context Ch 2 Assignment 1
Week 3 The Project Management Process
Groups: A Case Study Ch. 3
Week 4 Project Integration Management Ch. 4 Assignment 1 duedate
Week 5 Project Scope Management Ch. 5 Assignment 2
Week 6 Project Time Management Ch. 6 Quiz 1
Week 7 Project Cost Management Ch. 7
Week 8 MIDTEST Assignment 2 duedate
Week 9 Project Quality Management Ch. 8 Assignment 3
Week 10 Project Human Resource
Management Ch. 9
Week 11 Project Communication Management
Ch 10
Week 12 Project Risk Management Ch 11
Week 13 Project Procurement Management Ch 12 Assignment 3 duedate Quiz 2
Week 14 Group Presentation Week 15 Group Presentation
