Syllabus

Book:

1. Introduction to Project Management
   ISBN 1-4188-3559-5
2. Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development
   ISBN 1-57851-489-9

Course Description:
This course is designed to help you learn to use project management knowledge, tools, and techniques to solve real life business problems. The class consists of a series of business cases to help you learn how to do this. You will need to think about the business situation presented in each case in order to solve the problem in the case. You will use a series of tools, including Microsoft Project Professional, to accomplish this.
Course Content and Topics:

• The project managers role and responsibilities
• Envisioning, creating, and useing Gantt and PERT charts

Labs:
The best way to work in this class is with your own laptop. If this is not possible, you can use the computers in SMI 476. The lab assistants found there are not to help you solve your case. They may be able to assist you with some of the tools that you will need to use.
Grading:
Your grade is based on two major components for each assignment:

1. (25%)The quality and quantity of your participation in class and group discussions for each assignment.
2. (75%)The quality, accuracy and professionalism, of the work done to solve each case.

For each case you will:

1. Read the assigned case and the information from the text that is associated with it
2. Discuss the case and the information from the text with your cohort and the entire class
3. Solve the case and propose a solution as a cohort
4. Create, as a cohort, a case that is similar to the one you are currently working on. It must cover the same project management principles as the current case but be a different situation with a different solution.
5. Complete the evaluation case on your own.

It is expected that you will share ideas with your cohort as well as others however you may not share portions of deliverables or complete deliverables with other cohorts. You may not share your evaluation case work with you classmates, students in other sections, or those who may take the class after you. To do so will be considered cheating and will result in a failing grade for all of the people involved
Share ideas. Share cohort work. Do your evaluation work by yourself.

While you are completing your evaluation case you may not speak to anyone nor lookup anything. This case is to determine what you know and can do. If you choose to talk with others or use other cases or other information not included in the evaluation case it is cheating and will results in a failing grade for the class.
Cases:

There area 8 cases throughout the course. In each case new concepts and ideas await your discovery. You must do research prior to the cohort and classroom discussions for each case. References within the text and from other locations will be given to you that will help you start your research.

Homework:

Home work consists of whatever may be necessary for you to complete all of the cases. This may included working with your cohort on a cases, meeting with your cohort to discuss the new project management concepts, meeting with your cohort, or other items.

Harassment:

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination against any participant in an education program or activity that receives federal funds, including Federal loans and grants. Title IX also covers student-to-student sexual harassment. If you encounter unlawful sexual harassment or gender based discrimination, please contact the Personnel Office at 496-1130.

Disability:
Brigham Young University-Idaho is committed to providing a working and learning atmosphere which reasonably accommodates qualified persons with disabilities. If you have any disability which may impair your ability to complete this course successfully, please contact the Services for Students with Disabilities Office, 496-1158. Reasonable academic accommodations are reviewed for all students who have qualified documented disabilities. Services are coordinated with the student and instructor by this office. If you need assistance or if you feel you have been unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of disability, you may seek resolution through established grievance policy and procedures. You should contact the Personnel Office at 496-1130.

Counsel from President Hinckley:

This is the great day of decision for each of us. For many it is the time of beginning something that will go on for as long as you live. I plead with you: don’t be a scrub! Rise to the high ground of spiritual, mental, and physical excellence. You can do it. You may not be a genius. You may be lacking in some skills. But so many of us can do better than we are now doing. We are members of this great Church whose influence is now felt over the world. We are people with a present and with a future. Don’t muff your opportunities. Be excellent.

And finally, in all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured