Course Description
This course discusses the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations use to manage their information systems projects. The course covers a systematic methodology for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects. This course assumes that project management in the modern organization is a complex team-based activity, where various types of technologies (including project management software as well as software to support group collaboration) are an inherent part of the project management process. This course also acknowledges that project management involves both the use of resources from within the firm, as well as contracted from outside the organization.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, the teacher trainee should be able to:
- Initiate, specify, and prioritize information systems projects and to determine various aspects of feasibility of these projects.
- Understand the foundations of project management, including its definition, scope, and the need for project management in the modern organization.
- Understand the phases of the project management life-cycle.
- Manager project schedules with appropriate techniques and tools.
- Manage project risk; including the identification of project risk,
and the techniques for ensuring project risk is controlled.
- Teacher: Godfrey Musaazi