21 courses with the subject PPM, 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.
PPM 100Selected Topics1-6
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
Everyone is a project manager on some level. This course will identify best practices to manage projects, both large and small. Students will apply those practices while implementing a project to enhance their expertise.
This course builds on PPM 301¿Foundations of Project Management.¿ In this class, students will explore how to affect project outcomes by analyzing project leadership styles and different team organization approaches and techniques. Students will evaluate their leadership style and, during in-class exercises and assignments, will practice skills to enhance team dynamics and project performance.
Introduces and compares Agile, Scaled Agile, hybrid methodologies, theory of constraints and critical chain, and emerging trends in project management. Includes considerations for organizations moving to value or product-based focus its impact on traditional project management planning, executing and reporting.
This course builds on PPM 301 ¿Foundations of Project Management¿ by introducing advanced topics in project controls including: scope identification, estimating, resource management, scheduling, risk and quality management, and cost control. Project Control Information Management Systems, including Earned Value Management, will also be introduced in this course.
PPM 325Project Communications and Stakeholder Management3
Introduces the criticality of proper communication to project success. Covers how to effectively create and execute Communication and Stakeholder Management Plans. Explores how effective communication can be performed considering stakeholder management, project management methodologies, structure, culture, knowledge and skill sets.
This course integrates learning from the pre-requisite courses in the Project Management suite and enables the student to see the connections between theory and practice of project management.
Project Management Fundamentals prepares participants for hands-on, real world project management activities. Participants will acquire knowledge necessary for applying project management skills and tasks related to planning, scheduling, budgeting, communications, risk management and project closure.
This course will outline the steps taken to complete the planning process and to create the components of the project management plan that will serve as the guide to project execution.
Provides an understanding of how new Agile principles and practices are changing the landscape of project management. Designed to give project managers fresh new insight to successfully blend Agile and traditional project management principles and practices to fit any business and project situation.
This course addresses the risk management knowledge area with an approach that provides the project management professional the ability to minimize the threats of risk while maximizing the positive impacts of opportunities.
Examine traditional and contemporary leadership theories and styles, gain an understanding of approaches that can provide direction and motivation to project teams.
This course will equip the project manager to achieve the goal of getting the right people, the right information, at the right time and ensuring that the key stakeholders are kept updated.
PPM 646Global Projects and Virtual Project Management3
This course examines approaches to effectively manage large-scale projects which are primarily comprised of virtual teams that have the additional challenges of being multi-cultural, overcoming language barriers, and collaborating across different time zones.
Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
Making use of case study examples, students will develop a comprehensive project management plan demonstrating expertise in the (10) knowledge areas across the (5) phases of the project lifecycle.
