Project Management Master's Courses

This foundation course covers key terminology, project management context, and the project management framework. This framework includes the project management knowledge areas and the project process groups.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Apply key project management terms
• Analyze the environment in which projects operate
• Describe a generalized view of how the various project management processes commonly interact
• Identify project integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communications, risk, procurement, stakeholder management process inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs
• Analyze stakeholder needs and expectations
• Interpret the role of the project manager
• Initiate a project by creating a project charter and analyzing stakeholder needs
• Apply citation and documentation carefully to all assignments

This course examines activities related to the predictive project management approach, including initiating, planning, estimating, and managing project integration, scope, schedule, resources, and cost.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Plan and estimate project scope, resources, schedule, and cost in a predictive project
• Evaluate the project environment and artifacts to determine which approach aligns and delivers value
• Prepare scope baseline, including requirements traceability matrix, scope statement, and work breakdown structure
• Prepare schedule baseline by developing a network diagram, estimating activities durations, and developing project schedule
• Prepare an integrated project schedule incorporating resources using automated scheduling tools
• Identify indicators and implement methods to tailor processes
• Apply and document integration processes throughout a predictive project

Prerequisite: PRM600

This course examines strategies used to effectively complete projects through people and stakeholder groups and the role of the project manager as leader in the agile and predictive approaches.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Identify, assign, and communicate project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships
• Synthesize in a balanced manner the individual, organizational, and systemic issues in conflicting situations and negotiations
• Develop strategies to identify, address, and manage the diverse expectations of the project team and other stakeholder groups
• Evaluate attributes that shape decisions on tailoring project approaches
• Demonstrate, select, and adapt communications styles critical to project environments and progress
• Adapt personal leadership style for alignment with the organization culture and project needs
• Develop facilitation skills for virtual and in-person interactions among teams and groups
• Close projects effectively, including staffing, finance, and archiving lessons learned and project documentation
• Direct and manage project work by applying project management principles

Prerequisites: PRM600, PRM601, PRM620

This course examines and applies methods used for planning, managing, and controlling quality. It explores statistical analysis of data for professional applications with an emphasis on quantitative methodologies.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Leverage performance domains, methods, and artifacts to plan, manage and control product and project quality
• Apply ethical considerations to project quality decisions
• Analyze dependencies between project requirements, specifications, and measurable quality standards on product and project performance
• Manage project lessons learned and retrospectives to integrate project knowledge with organizational knowledge base
• Apply identified strategies of quantitative problem solving in practical applications

Prerequisites: PRM600, PRM601, PRM611, PRM620

This course explores the principles and practices of risk management. Key concepts in managing uncertainty include developing a risk approach and identifying, analyzing, responding to, and monitoring risks in projects in predictive and agile management environments.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Determine the level of risk exposure that is acceptable in pursuit of project objectives and define a risk strategy for the project
• Identify and accurately describe potential uncertainty including threats and opportunities associated with a project
• Analyze the likelihood of individual threats or opportunities occurring and their potential impact on overall risk of meeting objectives
• Determine appropriate responses to significant risks, and evaluate implemented responses
• Evaluate uncertainty and risk considerations using adaptive approaches

Prerequisites: PRM600, PRM601, PRM611, PRM620

This course examines the full life cycle of project procurement, which includes both buyer and seller perspectives, and explores cost estimating techniques to develop proposals.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Determine project procurement requirements and schedule
• Develop a procurement plan
• Analyze contract types and rationale for use
• Develop proposal documentation from a buyer and seller perspective
• Develop appropriate selection criteria and evaluate bids
• Develop strategies to evaluate, manage, and close contract relationships with vendors
• Analyze ethics from a procurement perspective
• Conduct estimation to support proposal development

Prerequisite(s): PRM600, PRM601, PRM611, PRM620

This course examines project performance and how value is delivered in a predictive and agile approach. The course covers how performance is measured, analyzed, monitored, controlled, and reported for deliverables, baselines, resources, value, stakeholders, and forecasting.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Assess projects’ earned performance management strategies to manage and report project status
• Interpret and diagram earned value (EV) data to manage cost, and schedule performance of projects
• Evaluate and develop performance measurement baselines and matrices that integrates deliverables, baselines, resources, value, stakeholders, and forecasting
• Explain significant variances to appropriate audiences
• Analyze significant variances from the plan, and forecast impacts to prepare an estimate of completion based on performance to date and work to be performed
• Assess approaches to determine how project costs are estimated, budgeted, managed, monitored, and controlled
• Assess the impact of integrated change management on project baselines

Prerequisites: PRM600, PRM601, PRM611, PRM620

This course develops the skills, techniques, and mindset to build consensus, collaborate with stakeholders, and support self-managed teams in continuous testing of efficiency and effectiveness through Agile project management methods.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Apply key agile project management terms
• Distinguish among project methodologies based on project requirements
• Synthesize the core practices and philosophies behind agile methodologies
• Apply agile tools and techniques to efficiently deliver value
• Articulate the importance of value-driven delivery and continuous process improvement loops, ensuring that goals are met
• Apply university and workplace citation and documentation carefully to all assignments

Prerequisite: PRM 600 Foundations of Project Management

This course examines methods to strategically evaluate the environment, governance, and processes to determine and apply the appropriate approach and tailoring techniques that create value. The hybrid approach that combines the predictive and agile processes is explored. Program and portfolio management are also discussed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following.

• Analyze the environment and organizational strategies to define and evaluate project success and value
• Determine the management approach for predictive, agile, and hybrid
• Apply hybrid techniques and processes to achieve project value
• Identify and implement appropriate tailoring techniques
• Identify and apply program and portfolio management processes and techniques

Prerequisite(s): PRM600, PRM620, PRM601, PRM611. PRM613, PRM614, PRM616