Project Management
From IS Curriculum
The core knowledge units and topics within Project Management are as follows:
- Project Management Terminology
- Program Management and Governance
- Project management office
- Prioritization
- Project phases
- Managing Project Teams
- Project Team Planning
- Managing cultural diversity
- Working on virtual teams
- Managing globally distributed project teams
- Sourcing relationships
- User/client relationships
- Motivating team members
- Leadership, power, and conflict
- Negotiation
- Collaboration
- Managing Project Communication
- Key issues in project communication
- Enhancing team communication
- Using collaboration technologies
- Project Initiation and Planning
- Project Scope
- Project Scheduling
- Common problems in project scheduling
- Techniques for project scheduling
- Project Resources
- Types of resources
- Human resources
- Financial resources
- Time resources
- Techniques for managing project resources
- Types of resources
- Project Quality
- Measurement of project quality
- Threats to project quality
- Tools for managing project quality
- Project Risk
- Types of project risk
- Tools for managing project risk
- Procurement
- Ways to procure IT resources
- Managing the procurement process
- Project Execution & Control
- Managing project execution
- Monitoring progress and managing change
- Documentation and communication
- Common problems in project execution
- Obtaining information regarding progress
- Cost control
- Change control
- Project closure
- Administrative closure
- Personnel closure
- Contractual closure
- Project auditing
- Project Management Standards
- Project Management Body of Knowledge
- PMI standards
- IEEE standards
