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INFOSYS 290: Effective Project Management

Spring 2006

Course Description

Two hours of lecture per week. Some Lab time. This course teaches the project management essentials that allow you to lead or function comfortably in a project environment. Case studies, personal experience and real-world projects will be used to demonstrate tools and techniques. Our approach emphasizes flexibility, communication and recognition of how external factors impact project management.

A sampling of topics covered:

• Understanding project lifecycles: waterfall, iterative, etc.
• Structuring a project to succeed
• How to know when you're in trouble
• Critical activities in all project phases
• Working with what you have and what they want

This course is appropriate for both 1st and 2nd-year MIMS students, and for students from other departments with an interest in understanding project dynamics or project leadership. This course satisfies the requirement for a project management course.

Prerequisites

None.