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Software Project Management - Practicum

  • From the author of Information Technology Project Management, Kathy Schwalbe: The future of many organizations depends on their ability to harness the power of information technology, and good project managers are in high demand. Colleges are responding to this need by establishing courses in project management and marketing them as part of the information technology, management, or engineering curriculum. Corporations are inventing in continuing education to help develop information technology project mangers and effective project teams. This text provides a much-needed framework for teaching courses in information technology project management.
IT Project Management
    Software Engineering
  • By reading the book Information Technology Project Management, you should better understand what project management is, and how to manage complex projects. Kathy Schwalbe provides many good and bad examples of project management. You will learn not only what to do by reading about successful projects, but what caused the failure of other projects as well. By understanding what others have done wrong, it will help you not make to same mistakes as others have done in the past.
  • This text provides suggestion of what to do when projects begin to go wrong. It teaches you about new hardware and software that can aid in project management. The text starts with a general introduction to project management and a sample case to help you better understand the processes involved in project management. From there, you will read about managing specific project management knowledge areas.
  • While reading, you will also be applying what you have learned to a sample case provided in Appendix C. By taking what you learn, and applying it to this case, you will gain experience in what it takes to be a successful project manager.
Goals and Objectives

The objective is to understand the concepts of software project management as they apply to complex organization. Specifically, each student will be expected to:


  • Explain and discuss the concepts of software engineering project management.
  • Analyze and explain the specialized behavioral, organizational, and management methods used to deal with the problems encountered when managing software projects.
  • Use specialized techniques for software projects including project planning and control; cost estimating; network analysis; risk and tradeoff assessment
  • Analyze, synthesize, and communicate the basic approaches to managing software projects in complex organizations.
Methodology

The class will consist lecture and guided discussions. In class time will contain both best practices and development of software project plans. Models and techniques will be reinforced with discussion sessions and class projects. Outside class reading will also be required.

Learning Outcomes
  • Knowledge of Software Engineering Best Practices
  • Professional Certification Preparation. Professional certification is an important factor in recognizing and insuring quality in a profession. This course (lectures and text) is an excellent resource for studying for the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) exam.
  • Microsoft Project Professional Experience. We will be using Microsoft Project Professional to plan an Information Technology Software Engineering Project. We will complete the life cycle of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing of a software project.
The Instructor
Software Engineering
  • Dr. Griesser is Director of Software Engineering and Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Griesser has taught information system and management courses for universities in the greater Cleveland area since 1983.



  • His educational accomplishments include :
    • a D.B.A. from Nova-Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL;
    • M.B.A. and B.S. from Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio;
    • A.B. from Lorain Community College, Lorain, Ohio.
  • He has written several articles in the computer science and management field.
  • Dr. Griesser has presented findings to the I.E.E.E. Society, World congress on Expert Systems, Change Management and Motivation of Information System Professionals.
  • He currently is managing the implementation of a major Software Improvement effort for his organization, and has just completed an “Benchmark/Best Practices” effort.
  • Dr. Griesser is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Project Management Professional (PMP).
  • Dr. Griesser has over thirty years experience in the Information Systems Profession, serving all organization levels ranging from entry-level to senior management.
  • Dr. Griesser has consulted in the software-engineering and project management field. He has recently won the Kerzner award for leadership in project management. Dr. Griesser organization is a maturity level three as rated by the United States Software Engineering Institute.

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