Mgmt404
Project Management
Syllabus
Spring 2005
Prof. Crum
Room 200
E-mail: profkc@profkc.com
kcrum@kc.devry.edu
Web: www.profkc.com
Course Objectives
This course enhances students' ability to function in a project leadership role. While exploring the project life
cycle, they gain experience in budget and timeline management. Project management software is used to
design project schedules using methods such as bar charts, program evaluation review technique (PERT) and
critical path method (CPM) to produce project plans to apply to the solution of case studies.
(4 credit hours).
Textbooks and Materials
The textbooks are A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) by the
Project Management Institute and Project Management: The Managerial Process by Gray and Larson. The
software is Microsoft Project, available with your student software. You will need storage for saving your
project files.
Class Rules and Procedures
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Attendance is mandatory per DeVry standards. No food/drink, opened or unopened, will be allowed in the
classroom. All cellular phones and pages must be on non-audible signal. No student will be allowed to
use his or her computer in the classroom unless authorized by the instructor! Attendance is the
responsibility of the student. If you are absent, you are solely responsible for assessing class information
missed. There is no tardy policy for this class; you are either on
time or not.
Office Hours
Tuesday: 12 - 1 PM
Friday: 9 – 11 AM
**other times by appointment
Class Grading
Exams will cover any and all material, including lab material, previously discussed to that juncture.
Point total breakdown
Quizzes
30%
MS Project Assignments
30%
Group Project
20%
Final Exam
20%
100%
Grades will be assigned as follows: A=90%-100% points, B=80%-<90%, C=70%-<80%, D=60%-<70% and
F=less than 60%.
Ground Rules
** If you miss a quiz, there is NO make-up. Each student will be allowed one missed quiz and the
student’s score on the final will replace this missed quiz score. Any other missed quizzes will be recorded as
a zero. For those who take all the quizzes, your percentage score on the final will replace the lowest of your
regular quiz scores if your final is higher than that score.
** After week 2, MS PROJECT ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED LATE. For those who
care to work ahead, I will try to have posted on my web site and e-college all of the assignments.
** All assignments and exams are expected to be each student's own work. All students are expected to
abide by the published DeVry policy statement on academic honesty. The expectations placed on students
are: "Students are expected to submit their own work. Any attempt to circumvent or assist in the
circumvention of this expectation of academic honesty is subject to disciplinary action as specified in the
Student Code of Conduct." If you are in any way unclear about DeVry’s stringent policy, please review it
again in your Student Handbook. All work is expected to be your own unless the assignment is specifically
described as group.
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** Students should check my web site and e-college on a weekly basis for class information. I usually
update the sites by Monday morning, if not daily.
** Due to the nature of the assignments and group projects, no assignments will be accepted by e-mail.
Mgmt404 Group Project
Groups will consist of 2-4 students. Each group will be evaluated as a team and each individual member will be
evaluated separately to determine final points (grade). Evaluation sheets will be passed out at least twice
during the course of this project. Member participation is required to obtain points on all of these
assignments. It will be each team’s responsibility to work out a mutually acceptable schedule for team
assignments and to elect a project leader. There may be some class time available for these projects but they
will require additional time to complete – also known as HOMEWORK!!!!
The group project CANNOT be your senior project – no exceptions!! This is an assignment to setup a project –
not to actually complete a project. All projects will require professor approval BEFORE work may begin.
All assignments will be graded on specific requirements, as outlined below, AND on professional/business
appearance. Sloppy and incomplete work will heavily penalize each assignment. All printouts from
Microsoft Project should use proper headings and all information contained in columns should be visible.
The grading for this project will carry the same weight as your final exam and will be figured into the 20% portion
of your lecture grade.
Wk 2
Wk 3
Wk 6
Wk 9
1) Discuss group project assignment – organize into teams
1) Turn in team members, project manager, client information and project idea (5
points)
1) Develop project description to include: (45 points)
 Team members/Project Manager/Project Name
 Date
 Client Name
 Client Address
 Contact Name
 Contact Telephone #
 Project Description (Statement of Need/Objective(s)/Deliverable(s))
 WBS outline (in MS Word)
1) Enter data into MS Project as a plan including: (50 points)
 Break Summary tasks into detail tasks
 Add leveling to number tasks
 Set up dependencies as needed
 Do not assign resources!
2) Turn in the following printed reports:
 Print Task Sheet View (All Columns)
 Print Project Summary Report
 Print Gantt Chart View (w/Gantt)
Wk 11
Wk 14
1) Revise MS Project plan to include: (50 points)
 Assignment of Resources
 You may allow for overallocations
 Scheduling adjustments as necessary
2) Turn in the following printed reports:
 Print Project Summary Report
 Overallocated Resources
 Print Gantt Chart View (w/o Gantt)
 Print Who Does What
1) Final Version due (50 points)
 Complete project with no overallocations
 Turn in project on clean diskette
 Clearly label project name, team members
2) Team evaluations
Anticipated Class scope and schedule
Topic
Intro to Project Management
MS Project: Intro to MS Project
Project Life Cycle/Organization
MS Project: Sequencing
Integration Management
MS Project: Review
Scope Management
MS Project: Resources
Time Management
MS Project: Scheduling
Time Management
MS Project: Calendars
Cost Management
MS Project: Review
Quality Management
MS Project: Resource Leveling
Human Resource Management
MS Project: Task Constraints
Communication Management
MS Project: Review
Risk Management
MS Project: Tracking Progress
Text
PMBOK – Chap 1
Class events
Assignment
Lab #1
PMBOK – Chap 2
Group selection
Lab #2
PMBOK – Chap 4
Group project
request
Quiz #1
Lab #3
PMBOK – Chap 11
Week 14
Risk Management
MS Project: Filtering Data
Procurement Management
Request For Proposals
MS Project: Custom Reports
Procurement Management
Week 15
Final Exam
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
PMBOK – Chap 5
PMBOK – Chap 6
PMBOK – Chap 6
Lab #4
Lab #5
Group project
description
PMBOK – Chap 7
Lab #6
Lab #7
PMBOK – Chap 8
Quiz #2
Lab #8
PMBOK – Chap 9
Group project
development
Lab #9
PMBOK – Chap 10
PMBOK – Chap 11
Lab #10
Group project
revised
development
Lab #11
Lab #12
PMBOK – Chap 12
Example RFP
Quiz #3
PMBOK – Chap 12
Final Project
Team evaluations
Schedule subject to change!
Check web site/e-college for up-to-date assignments
Lab #13