3.0

credits

Average Course Rating

Leaders manage projects and project teams every day. They form expectations, optimize stakeholder involvement, and integrate needed change into existing environments. They develop tasks, assign responsibilities, and track progress. Achieving intended, high quality outcomes through effective project management is both science and art. Students apply the seven-step project management life cycle – initiating, planning, organizing and staffing, implementing, measuring and assessing, controlling, and close-out – to routine, exceptional, unit, and agency-wide projects. They focus on essentials such as assessing capability to deliver, defining individual and team workload, budgeting, communicating, scheduling tasks, and monitoring progress. Students plan the role of managers, supervisors, and team members in a variety of projects. They have the opportunity to focus on projects they bring to the class from their own organization.