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MGMT 340 - Business Project Management

Credits: 5
Examines the theories and best practices for completing projects on time, on budget, and to specification. Students learn to apply knowledge and skills to effectively initiate, plan, execute, and complete projects. Software-based project management tools are discussed. Course aligns with current PMBOK Guide.

Prerequisite: Admission into the BAS in Applied Management program; and ENGL& 101 ; or instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

  1. Define a project and how it contrasts with ongoing operations. 
  2. Identify stakeholders.
  3. Write project charter, scope of work, communications plan, and responsibility matrix.
  4. Examine risks to a project and methods for mitigating those risks.
  5. Build a Work Breakdown Structure.
  6. Identify task relationships and schedule tasks based on available resources.
  7. Estimate project costs and timelines.
  8. Rebalance project schedule and understand impact to cost, schedule, and quality.
  9. Explain keys to building a strong project team and solving common project problems.
  10. Examine methods for monitoring project and closing out project.
  11. Utilize common project management softward tools to assist scheduling, estimating, and monitoring of project.

Program Outcomes
  1. Formulate effective business strategies by conducting thorough analysis of a given market and business environment.
  2. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to effectively and efficiently resolve business problems.
  3. Analyze financial data to explain organizational performance and identify business opportunities in a given market.
  4. Apply organizational behavior principles and human resources management practices to formulate a plan to effectively hire, retain, and develop a workforce.
  5. Plan and implement marketing and sales strategies to maximize long-term profitability of a firm.
  6. Construct operations and project plans that efficiently and effectively leverage organizational resources.
  7. Formulate strategies to increase ethical behavior and socially responsible decision making within an organization.


College-wide Outcomes
  • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
  • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.



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