BUS 3400 - Project Management

• Explain PMI’s project management framework including the five process groups and ten knowledge areas.
• Use key project management tools and techniques such as Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Gantt charts, Critical Path Method (CPM), stakeholder analysis, and risk registers.
• Develop a comprehensive project plan that includes scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management components.
• Assess project performance using Earned Value Management (EVM), KPIs, and variance analysis to monitor and control progress.
• Demonstrate effective leadership and communication skills to manage teams, engage stakeholders, and navigate organizational dynamics in a project environment.
• Analyze and respond to risks and changes using structured change control and risk management processes.
• Reflect on professional and ethical responsibilities of project managers according to PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
• Distinguish between traditional project planning methods and AI-assisted approaches

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• Communication and stakeholder management
• Cost management and resource planning
• Executing and monitoring and controlling process groups
• Introduction to project management and PMP Framework
• Procurement management
• Project closing and lessons learned
• Project integration management and initiating process group
• Quality management and midterm project review
• Risk management
• Activity definition and sequencing
• Estimating and critical path
• Scope management
• Scope decomposition and the work breakdown schedule
• The environment in which projects operate
• Schedule management
• MS Project Management to plan, execute, and monitor a project