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Course Name	Turkish	Mühendisler için Proje Yönetimi
	English	Project Management in Eng.
Course Code	BLG 448E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Selin Metin Doğu Selin Metin Doğu
Course Objectives		-This course is aimed to help the student to learn the competencies and skills for planning and controlling projects and how it relates to business operations. The course introduces the fundamental procedures, tools and techniques and focuses on project management life cycle and the role of a project manager. Students will explore project management with a practical, hands-on approach through business examples and class assignments. Topics will include schedules, risks, resources, as well as project stakeholders. The course will also mention the behavioral skills of a project manager and show hints to resolve interpersonal issues encountered during a project schedule. A special emphasis will be given to software projects management using Waterfall and Agile methodologies. The course will explore Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and its impacts on project success. Another bonus topic which is essential for software engineers will be software configuration management (and its relationship with Dev-Ops fundamentals). Examples from real-life projects will be presented and discussions on the rising trends will provide insight to the students.
Course Description		-
Course Outcomes		This course focuses on project management methodology. At the end of this course, students will be able to • Understand concepts of project management design, development, and deployment • Define project scope, schedule budget and typical project phases • Use project management tools, techniques, and skills • Understand how to manage project cost, quality, and delivery • Optimize critical resources in case of conflicting interests or tight schedules • Understand the implications, challenges, and opportunities of organizational dynamics in project management • Recognize and mitigate risks and challenges throughout project life cycle • Define communication strategy with stakeholders • Understand most used software project management methodologies • Gain familiarity with processes and maturity models • Understand the importance configuration management and see examples and its relationship with Dev-Ops models.
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Textbook		Wysocki,Robert K., (2009).“Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme”, Wiley Publishing, Indiana Project Management Institute (2021). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) – Seventh Edition. Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania, USA. Project Management Institute (2013). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) – Fifth Edition. Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania, USA. McConnell, Steve (1998) – Software Project Survival Guide, Microsoft Press Biafore B. (2010) Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual , O'REILLY DevOps Foundations, By Ernest Mueller and James Wickett – LinkedIn Learning (though this is not a free course, I highly recommend it if you have the means for membership) https://www.atlassian.com/project-management https://www.scrum.org https://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/ https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSH27 https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
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