International and Advanced Project Management
MET AD 645
This capstone course provides an opportunity to integrate skills and knowledge, review state-of-the-art issues, and produce deliverables required for successful project management. Students learn advanced simulation tools and techniques that can reinforce project planning and control skills, and enrich leadership skills as they pertain to change-control and decision-making. A key focus of this course is on the development and delivery of project quality management and applying a quality framework to ensure customer satisfaction. Within this topic students learn: quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control. Students also master state-of-the art topics such as: Outsourcing and virtual project management'including global project management practices to overcome national boundaries, geographic distances, and cultural diversity'project portfolio management, and aligning projects to business strategy for optimized enterprise success and PMBOK practices applied in the organization.

