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| Credit- Degree applicable | | Effective Quarter: Fall 2020 | I. Catalog Information
| CIS 95B | Project Planning and Control - A Practicum | 4 Unit(s) |
| | Requisites: Advisory: EWRT 211 and READ 211, or ESL 272 and 273; CIS 95A or equivalent. Hours: Lec Hrs: 48.00
Out of Class Hrs: 96.00
Total Student Learning Hrs: 144.00 Description: Create a project scope statement that will act as a basis for creating a project plan. Build a project plan that integrates time, resources and communication with cost and quality of work. Plan controls to proactively mitigate risks. |
| Student Learning Outcome Statements (SLO)
| | | • Student Learning Outcome: Create a detailed project plan complete with schedule, budget, risk mitigation plan, data and communication management plan for medium to large size projects. |
| | | • Student Learning Outcome: Create a detailed plan to control budget, scope, quality, schedule and team risks. |
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II. Course Objectives | A. | Apply project management basics and integrate aspects of a project to create a consistent, coherent project plan document. |
| B. | Implement the project scope process to ensure that project includes only the required work. |
| C. | Employ time management techniques to ensure timely completion of project. |
| D. | Implement cost management techniques to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. |
| E. | Evaluate project plan and utilize quality management process to ensure that project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. |
| F. | Implement controls in project plan to reduce the possibility of risks. |
III. Essential Student Materials IV. Essential College Facilities V. Expanded Description: Content and Form | A. | Apply project management basics and integrate aspects of a project to create a consistent, coherent project plan document. |
| 1. | Document Project planning assumptions. |
| 2. | Document project planning decisions regarding alternatives chosen |
| 3. | Facilitate communication among stakeholders. |
| 4. | Define key management reviews as to content, extent, and timing. |
| 5. | Provide a baseline for progress measurement and project control. |
| 6. | Understand basics for managing projects using Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) theory keeping scope, schedule, budget and quality in balance. |
| 7. | Learn five phases of implementing a project life cycle. |
| 8. | Learn how to mitigate and control risk. |
| 9. | Understand basics of procurement planning and contract management. |
| B. | Implement the project scope process to ensure that project includes only the required work. |
| 1. | Authorizing the project or phase. |
| 2. | Developing a written scope statement as the basis for future project decisions. |
| 3. | Subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. |
| 4. | Formalizing acceptance of the project scope. |
| 5. | Controlling changes to project scope. |
| C. | Employ time management techniques to ensure timely completion of project. |
| 1. | Identifying the specific activities that must be performed to produce the various project deliverables. |
| 2. | Identifying and documenting interactivity dependencies. |
| 3. | Estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual activities. |
| 4. | Analyzing activity sequences, activity durations, and resource requirements to create the project schedule. |
| 5. | Controlling changes to the project schedule. |
| D. | Implement cost management techniques to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. |
| 1. | Determining what resources (people, equipment, materials) and what quantities of each should be used to perform project activities. |
| 2. | Developing an approximation (estimate) of the costs of the resources needed to complete project activities. |
| 3. | Allocating the overall cost estimate to individual work activities. |
| 4. | Controlling changes to the project budget. |
| E. | Evaluate project plan and utilize quality management process to ensure that project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. |
| 1. | Identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them. |
| 2. | Evaluating overall project performance on a regular basis to provide confidence that the project will satisfy the relevant quality standards. |
| 3. | Monitoring specific project results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards and identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory performance. |
| F. | Implement controls in project plan to reduce the possibility of risks. |
| 1. | In context of project plan implement scope change, schedule, cost and quality controls. |
| 2. | In context of project plan prepare templates to show how the stated controls would be enacted. |
VI. Assignments | A. | Document Project Charter using the templates provided for a large project. |
| B. | Document project approach, deliverables, program and project structure. |
| C. | Develop a project schedule that includes a Work Breakdown Structure, Activity Definition, Activity Sequencing, resource and duration estimation. |
| D. | Develop a project budget based on project schedule. |
| E. | Create project controls to manage risks at time of planning. |
VII. Methods of Instruction | | Lecture and visual aids
Discussion of assigned reading
Discussion and problem solving performed in class
Guest speakers
Collaborative learning and small group exercises
Collaborative projects
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VIII. Methods of Evaluating Objectives | A. | Students will be presented with scenarios to solve that require successful creation of a project plan incorporating project planning techniques taught in class. |
| B. | Evaluation of oral and written assignments demonstrating progressive proficiency in project planning concepts, half completed in the class, half completed as homework. |
| C. | A final exam or project in which students demonstrate the ability to integrate and critically analyze concepts examined throughout the course, half completed in the class, half completed as homework. |
IX. Texts and Supporting References | A. | Examples of Primary Texts and References |
| 1. | "Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control : The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in On Time and On Budget", by James Lewis, Oct 20th 2010, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill Publishing (ISBN - 9780071746526) |
| B. | Examples of Supporting Texts and References |
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