BUS 340 - Project Management

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Explore both traditional project management with modern approaches adopted by lean and agile methods. Including determining the timeline, tasks, roles of the developer and other stakeholders, resources needed, cost calculations, risk analysis and mitigation, progress monitoring and quality assurance required to plan a project.

Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 with a C or higher; and CMST& 210 or CMST& 220 or CMST& 230 with a C or higher.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Compare and contrast project management using a Scrum team with Kanban.
Manage a software development project by conducting Scrum events, sprints and keeping a sustainable pace.
Assess the principles of the Agile manifesto as they relate to software development by implementing them in an application development project.
Apply agile team practices such as daily scrum meetings, creating Scrum artifacts, sprint planning, continuous integration, and Kanban while participating in software development.
Develop a client relationship with ongoing communication throughout the project life cycle by applying Agile principles and practices.

Course Contents

Project management using a Scrum team with Kanban.
A software development project conducting Scrum events, sprints and keeping a sustainable pace.
Principles of the Agile manifesto as they relate to software development by implementing them in an application development project.
Agile team practices such as daily scrum meetings, creating Scrum artifacts, sprint planning, continuous integration, and Kanban while participating in software development.
A client relationship with ongoing communication throughout the project life cycle by applying Agile principles and practices.

Instructional Units: 5