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Technology Project Management
Winter Quarter 2007
January 4-March 7, 2007
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.
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Classes
Monday and Wednesday: 11:15-12:45pm, MacLean B01
Text
Recommended but not required
(1) Kerzner, H., "Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling," includes 57 cases, 8th Edition, John Wiley and Sons.
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
ENGS 104: Introduction to Optimization Methods (or equivalent)
Blackboard
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