New Project Management course focuses on an increasingly holistic view of project success
A new course, first piloted in Fall, 2020 is being opened for full enrollment in Fall 2021. AD782 is now part of the Project Management program and it’s about a more holistic view of PM. The course, called Project Value Strategies, is in already fully aligned with the sweeping changes coming in the new edition of the PMBOK® Guide, in particular the focus on strategic project value.
In this course, you’ll be learning about Project Value – a unique perspective on classical Project Management that is focused on assuring that a project delivers in full alignment with the values of an organization. This increasingly popular framework with which to view our discipline strategically is derived from current research, standards, and thought leadership from PMI and other international bodies. Together with other students, you’ll learn how to take on this holistic view of projects, project management, and importantly, its expectations of project managers. It’s to your advantage – and that of your organization – to get on board now with this thinking, to be a thought leader amongst project leaders.
Students will (quite interactively!) learn how to create and measure value in projects even in today’s disruptive, turbulent, pandemic-prone environment, using recently-introduced schema, and with a focus on Benefits Realization Management. They work independently on proposing a transformation for an organization. In fact, during our pilot of the course, one of the students took their class project to their own company (a large pharmaceutical firm) as a formal proposal and received a monetary innovation award! In this case, the course truly had value!
To make the course more accessible not only to Project Management students, we have made the basic PM100 Laboratory badge the only pre-requisite for his course. AD782 has pertinence for students in Marketing, Finance, Innovation, and Analytics, all of which also are about adding value to their organizations.
Please consider this course as an elective for your learning. It’s a valuable choice.
The course is offered Thursdays from 6 to 8:45PM on campus, and will allow virtual/remote participation of students by arrangement. The description is here.