Master Syllabus: MGT 44602

TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

MGT 4460
Introduction to Project Management

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB MISSION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business (SCOB) prepares a diverse student body, drawn primarily from Alabama and surrounding states, to become successful, ethical and engaged business professionals with the knowledge to compete in the global business environment.

To achieve this our faculty, staff, and administration will:

Provide quality undergraduate and graduate education in global business through high-quality teaching;

Serve the university and engage with business and professional communities in our primary service area through individual involvement and our centers for research and outreach;

Grow and enhance the longstanding “culture of caring” for our traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students; and

Contribute to the creation of knowledge, with a focus on the scholarship of application and integration, and teaching and learning, complemented by basic and discovery scholarship in select disciplines.

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB VISION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business strives to be a renowned teaching-focused business college graduating GEEKS ready to succeed in business and life.

Prerequisites

Pre-Business Core, MGT 3300 and QM 3345.

Description

This course provides an introduction to essential principles governing effective project management and an application of tools and techniques that can be applied to defining projects, establishing task structure, planning and budgeting, managing of resources to achieve the project objectives, and post-project evaluation.

Objectives

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Locate project opportunities and prepare winning proposals.
  2. Organize task structure and allocate resources.
  3. Develop a project network diagram.
  4. Manage a project, budget, and schedule using project software.
  5. Communicate effectively with the customer regarding project status.

Purpose

To prepare for opportunities in the rapidly growing field of project management. This course provides the managerial concepts and quantitative tools needed to manage a project successfully and to achieve the end objective of customer satisfaction.

Required Activity

This course must contain a student engagement activity with the community that relates to course content. The activity may include guest speakers, site visits, projects for the community/industry, etc…

Approved Texts

Gido, J., & Clements, J. P. (2012 or current). Successful project management with DVD (5th ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson/South-Western.

Gray, Clifford and Erik, Larson (2006). Project Management: The Managerial Process (third edition). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Pinto, Jeffery K. (2007). Project management: Achieving competitive advantage. Pearson: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

Supplements

As deemed appropriate.

Troy University Faculty Handbook(2016): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):

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