Project Management of Information Systems

This course focuses on the concepts, frameworks and tools for managing IS projects in the corporate context.

Topics covered in the class include:

• IS project management challenges, frameworks, approaches and methodologies
• Project lifecycle management
• Project identification and selection; project scope management; project initiation and planning; network and earned value analysis techniques; project execution and control
• Project quality management; project process maturity assessment
• Project communications management
• Project change and  risk management
• Agile project management.

Student progress in this course is evaluated through a set of individual project management software tool assignments, case analyses write ups, and a team project. Individual project management software tool assignments provide the students with the opportunity to obtain hands-on knowledge and skills with project management tools, and learn basic project management lifecycle stages and issues. Case analysis write ups provide students the opportunity to apply key concepts and frameworks learned in class to understand and develop insights from a concrete business context. In the team project, the students apply concepts and frameworks to analyze an IS project in a real-world business context. The team projects are evaluated based on the quality of a team project proposal, a statement of work report, a tracking report, a final project report and a project presentation.

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