nichetek project management course syllabus
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Nichetek Project Management Course Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction
Introduction to the Class and Project Management in Contemporary Organizations
Project Management & Strategic Planning
Project Selection Criteria, Models, Understanding Risks, Alignment
The Project Manager
The role of the project manager; characteristics and attributes of Successful project managers;
challenges of managing projects in a multicultural, global environment
Assignment: Each Student has to propose a project that can be executed within the next 4 weeks.
Prepare a scope statement and define requirements.
Week 2
Project Organization and the Project Teams
Understanding the various types of organizations and how project teams fit into the
organization? Discovering structure, nature of the team environment, success factors and
problems with project teams; Developing definition of team member roles and the organization
of project teams
Project Planning
Initial Project Coordination through Integration Management;
Conflict and Negotiation
The project planning systems, work breakdown structure analysis, negotiation and conflict
resolution to facilitate planning.
Assignment: 1. Prepare list of Project dependencies, Project Teams and Organization Chart.
Week 3
Scheduling
The process and guidelines for developing a schedule; the construction of Gantt Charts
The process and guidelines for developing a resource plan, resource loading
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Risk Management
Discussion of how risks are identified and determined in a plan, the process for optimizing a
plan, the risk management process and methodologies
Assignment: Build project schedules for your projects; Define resources, Timelines and take risks into
consideration for the schedule. Produce a document that outlines the risks, dependencies and
assumptions that you have made.
Week 4
Resource Allocation
Discussing the process of allocation scarce and non-existent resources
Project Monitoring
The guidelines and methods to control a project
Project Control
The types and characteristics of project control systems, variance analysis, and corrective
actions.
Project Reporting and Termination
The project reporting methods, project termination rationale, lessons learned. Preparing the
final project report
Assignment: Expand on your project schedule
Week 5: Time to prepare final projects and presentations
Project Integration
Bringing the Project together; Team Project Hard Copies are due before class.
Each Student identifies their work in Project.
Project Presentations: Present your project to the class.
Everyone presents their portion of their Project. 4 minutes each. Students report remotely, like
all good project mangers do.