MAN 4885 - Complex and Advanced Projects

College of Business

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Spring 2020 (570)

Requisites

(Prerequisite MAN 4583 and
Pre- or Co-requisite MAN 4741 and
Pre- or Co-requisite MAN 4881) and
(Admission to Management and Organizational Leadership (Bachelor of Applied Science) (MGTORG-BAS) or
Admission to Business Administration (Bachelor of Science) (BUS-BS) or
Admission to Technology Development and Management (Bachelor of Applied Science) (TMGT-BAS) or
Admission to Paralegal Studies (Bachelor of Applied Science) (LEGAL-BAS) or
Admission to Project Management (Certificate with Financial Aid Eligibility) (PRJMGT-CT))

Course Description

This course intends to build on a thorough project management foundation to include a detailed insight into large projects, projects with diversified stakeholders, multi-location, and international projects. Topics include the related insights such as portfolio theory and information economics that are required to enhance previous learning to extend to project portfolio management and project management office functions.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will develop successful project initiation processes and linkages for complex and advanced projects by:
    1. identifying appropriate evaluation methods for projects to establish feasibility and optimizing organizational objectives for large, complex, and distributed projects.
    2. defining the elements of complex products and services with multiple and conflicting constraints and assumptions.
    3. identifying multiple solutions to maximize stakeholder satisfaction while limiting risk.
    4. utilizing effective communication and documentation techniques to establish formal approval and review by stakeholders.
  2. The student will devise appropriate plans within complex and advanced project scenarios by:
    1. analyzing project constraints, requirements, assumptions and project linkages to be included in a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
    2. planning and confirming the availability of appropriate project resources including human resources to enable time, cost, and risk estimates leading to budgets, minimum levels, and formal scheduling.
    3. integrating change, communication, quality, organizational implications and procurement management into the project preparations.
    4. preparing appropriate documentation for acceptance by the relevant stakeholders and external links.
  3. The student will manage and control the successful execution of complex and advanced projects, while limiting risks and integrating internal and external linkages by:
    1. executing the project plan with appropriate measurements and controls to enable management, corrective actions, and reassessment for improved outcomes.
    2. identifying risks and resulting interactions to optimize mitigation.
    3. interrelating the implications and solutions of complex arrangements for performance, resource owners, teams, scope changes, the implications of distance, culture, currency, and time differences.
  4. The student will formulate an effective closure for complex and advanced projects by:
    1. preparing the documentation and gaining approvals across multiple boundaries.
    2. determining the proper compliance with laws and regulations and reporting to external parties.
    3. transitioning project outcomes to production or standard processes.
  5. The student will demonstrate appropriate ethical, professional, and environmental choices for complex and advanced projects by:
    1. supporting ethical, legal, professional, and sustainable processes throughout all project steps.
    2. applying sound cultural, ethnic, religious, socially responsible, and fair resolution of competing demands while fostering continuous improvement of processes and persons.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I 5/24/2011, BOT 6/21/2011, Effective 20111(0445). Submitted as 4XX1, SCNS approved as 4885. C&I 9/16/2011, BOT 10/2011, C&I 1/20/2012, BOT 2/21/2012, Effective 20121(0460). C&I 7/12/2012, BOT 8/21/2012, Effective 20122(465). C&I Approval: 11/30/2012, BOT Approval: 01/15/2013, Effective Term: Fall 2013 (475).
C&I Approval: 09/05/2019, BOT Approval: 09/24/2019, Effective Term: Spring 2020 (570)

Related Programs

  1. Management and Organizational Leadership (MGTORG-BAS) (645) (Active)
  2. Project Management (PRJMGT-CT) (510) (Active)
  3. Technology Development and Management (TMGT-BAS) (625) (Active)