Doctoral Research.

This is a survey course introducing project management as a profession and an academic field of study. It provides the foundation for more advanced project management courses. It is a prerequisite to other courses in the degree program unless permission is granted. The student is introduced to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK Guide), as well as other international standards. Students will examine key tools and methodologies in use to manage large, complex projects and explore how these tools and techniques can be used to assess the project's overall status, its variance from the project plan and evaluate alternative recovery scenarios. Students will be introduced to the roles of project and program managers in today's enterprise and the tradeoffs they make among triple constraints of scope, time and cost.

This course provides students insight into the techniques and tools that can be applied to evaluate a project and the project's true status. Students will apply the earned value methodology to determine a project's true status for both schedule and cost in terms of the dollar value of work performed. Students will explore risk management and other techniques used to ensure project success. Within this course, students will have the opportunity to apply the various methods and tools used in a successful project to classroom assignments, in preparation for doing the same within their capstone projects. Students consider how projects can be accomplished within an agile or adaptive project management methodology.

This course addresses the processes and techniques used in the strategic management of project portfolios. Students examine the decision-making tools, techniques, and rationale used to reach consensus for funding specific programs and projects and to bring them into the tactical layer for execution. Students will study various objective methodologies, benefit measurement techniques as well as market analytics, competitive analysis, and market driven approaches. Strategic planning and management, and its link to Project Portfolio Management, will also be discussed during this course. Students identify their capstone project and create the associated Proposal/Business Case and Project Charter.