Technology Project Management

Winter Quarter 2009
January 5 - March 5, 2009

Course Description

Project management focuses on planning and organizing as well as directing and controlling resources for a relatively short-term project effort which is established to meet specific goals and objectives. Project management is simultaneously behavioral, and quantitative, and systematic. The course covers topics in planning, scheduling and controlling projects such as in new product development, technology installation, and construction. This course is aimed at both business and engineering students and combines reading and case-oriented activities.

Course Objectives

Given the specifics of a case description, the student will be able to correctly analyze the problems relevant to project management, and successfully defend the analyses of these PM problems to the class.

Instructors

Administrator

Sharon Cooper
Murdough 332
sharon.cooper@dartmouth.edu

Classes

Monday and Wednesday: 9:30-11:00am, MacLean B01

Text

Recommended but not required

(1) Meredith, J. and Mantel, S, "Project Management: A Managerial Approach", 7th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

Reference materials

(2) Moder, J. M., with Phillips, C. R. and Davis, E. W., "Project Management with CPM, PERT and Precedence Diagramming", van Nostrand Reinhold.

(3) Smith, P. G., and Reinertsen, D. G., "Developing Products in Half the Time", van Nostrand Reinhold.

Prerequisites

ENGM 184: Introduction to Optimization Methods (or equivalent)

Blackboard

More information about this course can be found on Blackboard. You can login to Blackboard using your DND username and password.