Management (MGMT)
This course provides a comprehensive perspective on leadership and management, from both an historical and current practices perspective. The link between management and leadership is examined and the application of leadership theory is explored.
Offered: Online
Description: This course provides an analysis of effective team-based leadership practices in a project environment. Topical coverage includes creating high-performance teams, managing team conflict, motivating teams, and empowering teams for the successful completion of projects. Key principles of effective team leadership are cross-referenced with PMBOK concepts.
Offered: Online
Leaders of nonprofit organizations must understand their role in the diverse political, social and economic contexts in which they will lead. This course provides a comprehensive understanding of how to lead a nonprofit organization. Students will examine governance, key concepts and the stakeholders involved in nonprofit management.
Offered: Online
This course explores the area of risk management in project management contexts, and is cross-referenced with PMBOK concepts. Topical coverage includes: principles and concepts of risk management, the processes of risk management, planning risk management, critical success factors for effective risk management, and performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: BUSI 681
In this course students will have the opportunity to learn to plan, design, implement, assess and report project performance. Project management will be examined from the perspective of project funding and support, project supervision, and participatory evaluation methods. Examines stakeholder analysis and techniques for reporting performance results.
Offered: Online
This course explores the area of project planning and scheduling, and is cross-referenced with PM BOK concepts. Topical coverage includes: defining the work breakdown structure, addressing work breakdown structure quality, and key considerations when creating the work breakdown structures. Coverage also includes principles and concepts of the scheduling model, best practices for scheduling, developing a project schedule, and the components of a schedule.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: BUSI 680 or BUSI 681 or ENGR 500 or Admission to MBA/DBA Six Sigma with a score of 5
This course explores the area of quality management, and is cross-referenced with PMBOK concepts. Topical coverage includes: foundations of quality, the contemporary application of quality concepts, quality paradigms, tools for managing project quality, and quality in practice. Current best practices in quality management will also be discussed.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: BUSI 681 or Admission to MBA/DBA Six Sigma with a score of 5
This course explores the core values and principles of agile project management. Topical coverage includes: agile methodologies, the relationship between defined and empirical processes, best practices and latest agile approaches.
Offered: Online
The course will examine Six Sigma methodology, including process improvement, decreasing defects, waste identification, variables, process performance and roles of team members.
Offered: Online
In this course, students integrate the concepts, techniques, and knowledge of the principal components of project management in a comprehensive, applied case study exercise. Course topics include project planning, project scope management, risk management, project scheduling and estimation, and project assessment.
Offered: Resident and Online