C-ID Descriptor
IT Project Management

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Business Information Systems/Computer Information Systems (C-ID ITIS 120)

1. Project Initiation
2. Project Planning
3. Working with Management
4. Managing the Project Scope
5. Creating the Budget
6. Building a Project Plan
7. Organizing a Project Team
8. Managing Project Teams
9. Project Plan Implementation
10. Revising a Project Plan
11. Enforcing Quality
12. Project Completion

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Explain what a project is, what project management means, and how it improves the success of information technology projects.
2. List the skills and attributes of a good project manager both in general and more specifically in the information technology field.
3. List and describe the ten project management knowledge areas – project, integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, and procurement and stakeholder management.
4. Apply the project management processes of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing by working on a group project as a project manager or active team member.
5. Implement good project management by sharing examples of good and bad project management, keeping a journal throughout the course for personal reflection, and using knowledge and skills developed in this class in other settings.
6. Articulate the types of business needs that can be addressed using information technology-based solutions.

Evaluation will include hands-on projects and a combination of examinations, presentations, discussions, or problem-solving assignments.

• Schwalbe, K., Information Technology Project Management, Cengage
• Phillips, J., Project Management with CompTIA Project+: On Track from Start to Finish, McGraw-Hill