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Business Administration Project Management

Project Management | 3 Credits

Apply project management principles to organization’s projects.

Number Title Description Credit(s)
BALM 320x Project Planning, Requirements, and Stakeholder Management

Students will be provided with a business scenario and then required to arrive at a comprehensive project plan. Students need to complete a project charter, write a project scope statement, develop a cost benefit analysis, construct the work breakdown structure, identify dependencies among activities, estimate durations for activities, allocate resources, and construct a project schedule using a tool such as Microsoft Project. Students will also be required to apply requirements gathering techniques and develop the project requirements document. Students will need to apply techniques for managing and communicating with stakeholders.

Required text: Watt, Adrienne. Project Management. (2014). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

  • Create a comprehensive project plan.
  • Apply techniques and tools designed to manage team members and interact with stakeholders.

Students interested in earning the Project Management Certificate alongside their BS in Business Administration may substitute this course with PMGT 301x and PMGT 302x. Please discuss this option with your Success Coach.

Prerequisites

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BALM 321x Project Budget, Schedule, Quality and Risk Management

Students will be provided with a business scenario and then required to measure project time performance by applying the critical path analysis. Then students will be required to apply the earned value analysis to measure project cost performance. Students will also need to conduct a risk analysis and develop a risk management plan, completing the probability impact matrix for risks. Students will discuss the applicability of project quality management tools for the given project scenario, describe the importance of project management process groups and knowledge areas in the context of the given scenario, and explain how the five process groups and ten knowledge areas interact with each other.

Required text: Watt, Adrienne. Project Management. (2014). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

  • Explain the interrelationship among project management processes, process groups. and knowledge areas.
  • Plan and monitor a project budget and schedule.
  • Evaluate project quality and risk using the basic tools of project risk and quality management.

Students interested in earning their Project Management Certificate alongside their BS in Business Administration may substitute this course for PMGT 304x. Please discuss this option with your Success Coach.

Prerequisites

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