INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROJECT AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: LO1 – Analyse project management process; LO2 – Formulate project management plan; LO3 – Integrate organization change management into project management methodology; LO4 – Organising an organizational change and change management; LO5 – Develop strategies on managing organizational change and the principle of restricting and leading the organizational change.

Topics:

1. Overview IS/IT Project Management;
2. Enrichment Activity: Discussion – Academic Discussion on Recent Research on Project Management;
3. Enrichment Activity: Practical Focus Group Discussion;
4. Project Management Approaches: Predictive, Agile, and Hybrid Approaches;
5. Project Knowledge Areas: Scope, Schedule, and Cost;
6. Enrichment Activity: Guest Lecture;
7. Enrichment Activity: Discussion;
8. Project Knowledge Areas: Resource Procurement, Quality;
9. Project Knowledge Areas: Risk, Communication, Stakeholders;
10. Enrichment Activity: Practical Focus Group Discussion;
11. Enrichment Activity: Guest Lecture;
12. Project Management Principles and Performance Domain;
13. Implementation Process;
14. Why Organizations Change and What Changes in Organizations;
15. Diagnosis for Change;
16. Resistance to Change;
17. Communicating, Implementing and Sustaining Change.