13 courses with the subject PM-FPX, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PM-FPX1000Project Management Principles
Students build an understanding of the fundamental basics of project management and gain a broad overview of project management standards and their applicability to both business and IT projects. Students analyze management theories, concepts, tools and techniques defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) including the Process Groups and Knowledge Areas. Students also investigate other project management methodologies and frameworks, with an emphasis on Agile. Students who have received credit for PM-FPX3000 may not take PM-FPX1000.
PM-FPX4000Foundations of Project Management Domains
Students develop a strong grounding in the essential elements of project management and equip themselves with the foundational knowledge needed to navigate and excel in diverse project environments. Students delve into the Project Management Institute (PMI) performance domains, exploring each area critical to successful project management and combining theoretical concepts with practical applications to real-world scenarios. Students investigate the importance of people‐oriented skills, such as communications, team building and leadership. The course culminates in a final project where students apply the knowledge learned in the development and management of a project.
Students gain an understanding of integration management and scope management knowledge areas. Students identify and examine the processes, tools, and techniques used to integrate activities from execution to project completion, and manage the interdependencies among the project management knowledge areas. Students create the scope management plan component of the project management plan and emphasize a system solutions approach for gathering and defining business requirements and leveraging project change management for controlling project scope. Finally, students consider the importance of developing strategic business and leadership skills, such as listening, problem solving, team building, market awareness, and customer relationship skills.
PM-FPX4030Scheduling, Cost, and Quality Management
Students investigate project scheduling and cost and quality management in a business or information technology (IT) project context. Students analyze project scheduling, costs, and quality management processes, including quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control. Students also monitor project results to evaluate compliance with schedule, costs and quality standards and gain an understanding of the steps involved in planning, performing, and controlling a business or IT project. Students identify a variety of scheduling, cost and quality tools that can be used independently or conjunctively. Finally, students utilize project management software to help in developing a project schedule.
PM-FPX4040Human Resources and Motivation Management
Students sample strategies for improving creativity, teamwork, and job satisfaction within a project team by creating and developing a project and recruiting team members. Students analyze the theories on individual motivation and how it fits in the organizational structure. Students examine the strengths and weaknesses of organizational development supporting project team member development to gain knowledge of how to effectively motivate project team members. Students also gain understanding about virtual teams, how to effectively manage them, and evaluate the link between personality traits and resolving team conflicts and how to effectively communicate with your team to manage change.
PM-FPX4050Communication and Stakeholder Management
Students develop an understanding of project communication and stakeholder management knowledge areas. Students analyze the processes, tools, and techniques used to manage project communications and stakeholders across project management process groups and emphasize executive project sponsorship as a strategic tool for project success. Students also acquire skills in strategic business management and leadership: customer relationship and satisfaction, operational functions, conflict management, negotiation, listening, problem solving, and team building.
Students analyze project risk management and examine the processes, tools and techniques used to identify, analyze, prioritize, respond, and control risk on a project. Students gain an understanding of how a risk management process can be standardized. Students also acquire and demonstrate business management and leadership skills such as planning, environmental awareness and conditions, benefits management, brainstorming, listening, negotiation, problem solving, and team building.
PM-FPX4070Procurement Management in Project Management
Students examine procurement management and investigate the various types of contracts, their terms and conditions, and execution. Students develop contract specifications, find potential sources, and evaluate bids. Finally, students examine ethical standards and legal requirements in procurement within the global market.
Students are introduced to the concepts of Agile Project Management (APM). Students gain an understanding of APM's objectives, which are, in part, to deliver customer value earlier in repeated iterations, adapt to changes in a more flexible and timely manner to ultimately gain a result of higher customer satisfaction, and increased team morale, collaboration, and ownership. Students apply their skills and knowledge to a scenario that requires the development of an APM-based project plan.
In this cross-disciplinary course, students analyze the fundamentals of project management and gain an overview of project management standards and their applicability to managing projects, with an emphasis on management methodologies and frameworks, including those defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). Students have the opportunity to participate in experiential learning by bringing in a workplace project, or they may use the project provided in the course. Students cultivate effective project management leadership skills, including project politics and ethics and collaboration.
PM-FPX5332Project Management Planning, Execution, and Control
This course covers the components of project management within the project planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling process groups. Students identify project requirements and develop a project plan that considers project scope, time, and cost in managing competing project requirements. Students also demonstrate the application of various project management tools including activity estimation, resource assignment, work breakdown structure (WBS) creation and the development of a project management schedule.
PM-FPX5333Project Budgeting, Procurement, and Quality
Students investigate project cost, quality, and procurement in business or information technology (IT) project context. Students analyze the fundamental concepts and principles of the following project management knowledge areas: project cost management, project quality management, and project procurement management by demonstrating the application of tools, techniques, and methodologies within these areas of study. Students apply various tools and techniques, in an integrative manner, to manage interdependencies among project management process groups.
Students in this course examine and demonstrate their knowledge of the components of project risk management including assessing project risk identification and mitigation strategies; evaluation of risk impact analysis methods; and evaluation of risk analysis techniques to ensure project success. Students also assess project risk management certifications and professional development activities to identify future project risk management professional opportunities.
