2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Dec 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

BSA 360 - Project Management Essentials


Description: Core concepts of project management based on processes of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects. Topics include project proposals, project selection, scope definition, CPM and PERT scheduling, budgeting, control techniques, and project manager skills.

Prerequisites: Program Admission. ACC 131, BSA 131, CSA 110, ECN 232, and ECN 236.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Project management process 
  2. Project life cycle 
  3. Budgeting projects 
  4. Work breakdown structures 
  5. Network diagrams 
  6. Scope planning 
  7. Project scheduling 

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Analyze effective project management practices and skills for how projects should be properly managed. (1) 
  2. Compare the different phases of the project life cycle. (2) 
  3. Plan appropriate activities for each phase of the project life cycle. (2) 
  4. Examine project budgets. (3) 
  5. Prepare Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). (4) 
  6. Compare network techniques used for project scheduling. (5) 
  7. Formulate project scope. (6) 
  8. Prioritize project resources for project activities. (7) 
  9. Create a comprehensive project plan. (1-8)