Management Science (MGSC) 419

Information Technology Project Management (Revision 1)

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Delivery Mode: Individualized study online or grouped study**

Credits: 3

Area of Study: Applied Studies
(Business and Administrative Studies)

Prerequisite: CMIS 351

Centre: Faculty of Business

MGSC 419 has a Challenge for Credit option.

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**Note:Students registering in grouped study, or grouped study international mode are advised that there may be some differences in the evaluation and course materials information indicated below. To obtain the most up-to-date information, contact the Faculty of Business Student Support Centre at 1-800-468-6531.

Overview

This course aims to achieve the following objectives.

  • Provide an overview of project management concepts, characteristics, and environments.
  • Discuss the importance of project definition and help students learn about important project definition tools such as the project overview statement (POS), requirements definition, and use cases.
  • Teach fundamental planning and scheduling techniques useful for project managers such as work breakdown structures (WBS), critical path method (CPM), and Gantt charts.
  • Introduce the importance of risk assessment within project management.
  • Examine important monitoring and control tools and techniques such as earned value analysis and milestone trend charts.
  • Discuss the importance of change control in traditional project management.
  • Examine different project management approaches applied in different contexts.
  • Discuss the importance of post-implementation audits.

Outline

MGSC 419 consists of 10 lessons, as outlined below:

Lesson 1: Studying Project Management

Lesson 2: Projects

Lesson 3: Introduction to Project Management and the System Development Life Cycle

Lesson 4: Defining the Project

Lesson 5: Work Breakdown Structures and Estimating

Lesson 6: Project Planning and Timelines

Lesson 7: Monitoring, Reporting, and Closing

Lesson 8: Adaptive Project Framework (Introduction, Version Scope, and Cycle Plan)

Lesson 9: Adaptive Project Framework (Build, Checkpoint, and Post-version Review)

Lesson 10: Extreme Project Management

Evaluation

To receive credit in MGSC 419, you must receive a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on the Final Examination. The weighting of each component is as follows:

Assignment 1 Assignment 2 Assignment 3 Online Discussion Final Exam Total
10% 15% 20% 15% 40% 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Note: Examinations for this course are taken online, and must be taken at an invigilated location. It is your responsibility to ensure a computer with an Internet connection and a current web browser is available for your use at the invigilation centre.

Course Materials

Textbook

Wysocki, R. K. (2007). Effective project management: Traditional, adaptive, extreme (4th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley. ISBN: 978-0-470-04261-8

Other materials

All other materials are available online from the course Web site and the Digital Reading Room.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the MGSC 419 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on the examination.

Online Exam

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

Opened in Revision 1, October 10, 2008.