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The use of projects and project management is becoming more and more important for all kinds of organizations. Businesses regularly use project management to accomplish unique outcomes under the constraints of resources, and project management turn to be one of essential ways of achieving an organization's strategy.
This course addresses the basic nature of managing general projects, not specially focuses on one type of project, no matter construction projects or R&D projects. The course uses the project life cycle as the organizational guideline, and contents will cover the whole process of project management, including project initiation, project planning, project implementation and project termination. We will study the characteristics of project and project management, look at how to define a project, how to organize a project, how to plan a project, and how to implement, trace and control a project. Topics will include: basic concepts of project and project management, project selection, project definition, project organization structure, team building, communication and conflict management, project planning methods and techniques, resource allocation, project monitoring and control, project termination. The course will be taught in the way of lecturing, discussing, case analyzing, and class exercising
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