Project_Managment 2022

1. ISY 386
Project
Management
Lecturer: Rand Albrahim

2. Instructor Info
Name: Rand Albrahim
Office Location: Female Campus Room D102 office number 1
Extension:
Email: r_albrahim@yu.edu.sa
Office hours: Sun, Tue, Thur 9:30-10:30

3. Course Info
Code: ISY 386
Title: Project Management
Credit hours: 3
Class schedule: Sun,Tue,Thur 10:30- 11:20 AM

4. What is project
management?
Project management is applying different
processes, methods, skills, knowledge and
experience to achieve the project’s objective
within the specific time and budget.

5. The benefits of good project management

6. 1. Save time and money
Determine Deadlines and efficiently allocate resources

7. 2. Improve internal communications
clearly distributing jobs to insure accountability

8. 3. Make better business decisions
by analyzing risks and opportunities

9. 4. Iterate on your successes
applying the lessons learned strategy

10. Better project planning = better projects

11. Course Description
This course examines the defining
characteristics of IT projects and introduces the
student to a variety of project management
techniques that can be applied in an IT project
context. Managing scope, time, cost, and quality
will be explored.
The course will cover management issues
associated with packaged software
implementation (e.g., ERP systems), in-house
developed systems, and outsourced projects.

12. Objectives
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
• Articulate similarities and differences between IT projects and other types of projects.
• Justify an IT project by establishing a business case
• Develop a project charter
• Develop a work breakdown structure for an IT project
• Estimate task durations and assign resources
• Establish task interdependencies
• Draw and analyze a network diagram
• Identify IT project risks and develop risk mitigation strategies
• Perform a post-project audit
• Identify and avoid IT project escalation
• De-escalate troubled IT projects

13. Textbooks
Kathy Schwalbe, Information Technology Project Management, Sixth
Edition, Course Technology, 2014.
Joseph Phillips, IT Project Management: On Track from Start to Finish,
Second Edition, 2004
Kabeil, M. Decision Making Programs, University of Sharjah, Sharjah,
UAE, 2008 (ISBN: 9948-10-058-1.)

14. GRADING AND EVALUATION CRITERIA
Class Assignments 10%
Quizzes 20%
Course Project 10%
Mid-Semester Exam 20%
Comprehensive Final Exam 40%

15. POLICY ON PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING
Cheating, which include plagiarism, is a form of misconduct that undermines academic
integrity. As such, YU condemns all forms of cheating and imposes stiff penalties on
offenders in order to build a no-cheating environment.
Cheating is a serious educational offence. Cheating occurs when a student:
• Uses or attempts to use unauthorized aids, assistance, materials or methods.
• Copies another student’s work and submits it as his/her own work.
• Allows another student to copy his/her work.
• Collaborates excessively with other students and decompiles sample solutions.
• Uses a mobile phone during a quiz or exam.

16. Important Dates
Assessment Date
Quiz 1 22/2/2022 Tue
Midterm 8/2/2022 Tue
Quiz 2 5/4/2022 Tue

17. Best Wishes!