PM - 501 Project Management Essentials

Credits: 3

Investigates the increasing use of projects to accomplish important organizational goals and the unique style of administration required to manage them. To illustrate and reinforce concepts, a variety of projects, organizational settings, and issues will be investigated through Harvard cases. Topics to be addressed include the selection and role of the project manager, organization and planning, budgeting and cost estimation, scheduling and resource allocation among multiple projects, monitoring, controlling, auditing, and terminating projects.