MBA572: Planning Projects to Manage Outcomes

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Overview

This course focuses on defining the shape and size of a project, establishing a project timeline, setting a budget, and ensuring the quality of the resulting product or service. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including:

Project scope and activity definition
Schedule development and resource planning
Cost budgeting and control
Quality planning and assurance

The course project is a Project Plan: Integrating Product Quality. The plan includes a project charter, scope statement, work breakdown structure, schedule, cost estimates, required staff, and tracking mechanisms for open issues or pending decisions related to the project.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Develop a realistic project timeline.
Estimate the costs of the resources needed to complete the project.
Establish criteria for periodically evaluating the quality of work in progress.

ENROLLMENT

To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Prerequisites

MBA 571

Required Texts
MBA572 texts are available from the JIU/Follett Bookstore