BUS402: Introduction to Project Management
Explore the steps and processes businesses follow to complete tasks and meet deadlines by focusing on the role project managers play in initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects.
BUS402
BUS402: Project Management (2023.A.01)
Explore the steps and processes businesses follow to complete tasks and meet deadlines by focusing on the role project managers play in initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and terminating projects.
BUS402 (2023.A.01)
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BUS402 (2023.A.01)
Overview of Project Planning
After the project has been defined and the project team has been appointed, you are ready to enter the second phase in the project management life cycle: the detailed project planning phase. Project planning is at the heart of the project life cycle, and tells everyone involved where you're going and how you're going to get there. The planning phase is when the project plans are documented, the project deliverables and requirements are defined, and the project schedule is created. It involves...
Abstract
Conflict resolution is a key issue to manage when dealing with diverse stakeholders. By analysing in depth the most relevant and implicit aspects of the construct "conflict", this study focuses on examining how the five main strategies in solving common disagreements are adopted by considering different conflict sources. Hypotheses are tested using data collected from both the academic and business world. Perceptions of project managers and team members allows the authors not only to find sig...
Course Syllabus
WELCOME TO BUS402: PROJECT MANAGEMENT Specific information about this course and its requirements can be found below. For more general information about taking Saylor Academy courses, including information about Community and Academic Codes of Conduct, please read the Student Handbook. COURSE DESCRIPTION Explore the steps and processes businesses follow to complete tasks and meet deadlines by focusing on the role project managers play in initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and termi...
What Is a Project?
The starting point in discussing how projects should be properly managed is to first understand what a project is and just as importantly what it is not. People have been undertaking projects since the earliest days of organized human activity. The hunting parties of our prehistoric ancestors were projects for example: they were temporary undertakings directed at the goal of obtaining meat for the community. Large complex projects have also been with us for a long time. The pyramids and the G...
Read this introduction, which will help you understand what actually constitutes a formal project. What goes into the making of a project? How many times have you been involved in a project that followed these parameters?
History of Project Management
Could the Great Wall of China, the pyramids, or Stonehenge (Figure 1) have been built without project management? It is possible to say that the concept of project management has been around since the beginning of history. It has enabled leaders to plan bold and massive projects and manage funding, materials and labor within a designated time frame. [Figure 1: Stonehenge was erected between 3,000 BC and 1,600 BC by no lets than three different cultures and its orientation o] FIGURE 1: Stonehe...
Read this chapter on the history of project management. Why does the history of project management matter to you? What can learning about the history of project management teach you about your future as a project manager?
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