600

This course introduces advanced topics regarding project schedule, risk and quality management, and cost control as well as providing essential knowledge of scheduling and other topics which include: advanced time, cost, risk, and quality estimating and planning; schedule estimation and management and earned schedule; risk management (identifying and quantifying risks, and risk-response plan); quality management (plan and quality analysis (control charts, Ishikawa diagram, audits)); and resource planning: estimating, balancing.

Many organizations’ projects are delivered through complex supply chains and networks. They have several suppliers, contractors, and customers. There is a substantial amount of project procurement involving these entities and a substantial amount of detailed planning and scheduling occurs. This course begins with an exploration of core principles of project procurement and expands to a consideration of how modern organizations expand their influence beyond simple contractual relationships by considering supply chains.  Additional course discussion will include the processes for planning procurements, foundational knowledge of supply chains and developing a strategy, identifying project procurement needs, including make-or-buy analysis, negotiating and ensuring due diligence and an equitable process when contracting, and determining contract types, risks, and incentives.

This is a capstone course that provides an opportunity to demonstrate the principles of project management. The course integrates learning from the courses in the PM major with other academic courses taken and may involve interdisciplinary partnerships among university departments and/or industry.Contemporary project management utilizes the project management techniques along with modern improvements such as the most current versions of Micro- soft® Project Professional 2016, the sixth edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), and many approaches derived from adaptive (Agile) project management. Contemporary project management also uses many tools and understandings that come from modern approaches to quality and communications, expanded role definitions, leadership principles, human strengths, and many other sources.Experiential learning is a key focus throughout this course.