Course schedule for the Information Systems Management Graduate Certificate Program, Northwestern University School of Professional Studies - Northwestern School of Professional Studies

Course Schedule

MSDS 475-DL : Project Management

Description

This course introduces best practices in project management, covering the full project life cycle with a focus on globally accepted standards. The course introduces traditional/waterfall, hybrid, and iterative/agile approaches to project management. Regarding traditional methods, the course reviews project integration management, portfolio and stakeholder management, chartering, scope definition, estimation, precedence diagrams, and the critical path method. It also reviews scheduling, risk analysis and management, resource loading and leveling, Gantt charts, earned value analysis and performance indices for project cost and schedule control. By applying methods discussed in this course, students will be able to execute information systems and data science projects more effectively.

Prerequisites: None.