BUS 3400 - Project Management

• Employ PMBOK methodology to define, plan, implement, monitor and control, and close projects
• Create team norms, roles, meeting practices, communication protocols, and document controls 
• Assess barriers and drivers of change both organizational and personal; identify, prioritize, and manage stakeholders
• Develop network diagrams, timed-phased budgets, resources schedules, Gantt charts, and create risk plans with preventative and contingent actions
• Monitor and control project performance to meet triple constraint requirements including how to calculate earned value, cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index, schedule performance index, and other key metrics to make appropriate decisions

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• PMBOK methodologies 
• Project management and strategic planning 
• Assembling and leading the project team 
• Team norms, roles, meeting practices, communication protocols, document control  
• Defining the project: project charters and the triple constraints 
• Project advocacy 
• Stakeholder management plans 
• Project definition: scope documents, work breakdown structures 
• Estimating time, cost, resource requirements 
• Developing project schedules: predecessors, successors, lags, slack, critical path 
• Gantt charts and responsibility matrices 
• Time- and resource-constrained schedules 
• Time-phased budgets  
• Risk management plans with preventive and contingent actions; risk communication plans 
• Reducing project duration 
• Project metrics: planned value, earned value, cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index, schedule performance index 
• After Action Reviews and project retrospectives 
• MS Project overview & use in course