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MGMT 270 - Project Management I: Project Scope/Requirements
Fall, 2012 - 5.0 Credits
Course Overview:
Learn the basics of working in a project team. Students create plans that identify project scope, constraints, stakeholders and risks, then explore customer needs and requirements. Includes an introduction to scheduling. Team and communication skills strongly emphasized.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the role of project management in a variety of contemporary organizational structures.
- Identify skills and attributes required to be a successful project manager.
- Initiate a project and manage it to successful completion, using concepts learned throughout the course .
- Create planning documents: write a scope statement, identify project constraints, determine customer requirements, evaluate stakeholders and identify risks.
- Demonstrate use of project management tools including work breakdown structure, action plan, linear responsibility diagram and a basic network diagram.
- Demonstrate ability to lead a project team and be a productive project team member.
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What I Learned:
Like the CSS class, this has been one of my favorite courses at EdCC. The instructor made the subject interesting and fun, and I've come to realize how central the Project Management skill set is to the successful progression and completion of a web development project.
I also had the opportunity to dramatically expand my Project Management skill set through the development of a 'hands on', real world project. I had previously led several small group projects as part of the coursework in some of my other classes. The project in this class was a class-wide project involving approximately 35 students, broken into five teams. The focus of the project was to generate a developmental proposal for the Edmonds Senior Center Thrift Shop.
I lead the 'Integration' Team that coordinated the project and I designed many of the critical components of this proposal. In this project, I essentially functioned as the Project Lead. This project built upon my prior experience leading small team projects, and I'm very proud of the fact that we were able to generate a professional 50-page document in less than six weeks for delivery to the ESC management. (The complete proposal is available via the link below.)