The program is designed to provide students with a specialized education that prepares them to pursue employment in the project management industry. By the end of the program, students will have developed skills in cost-benefit analysis, project selection, stakeholder identification, resource planning, quality management, risk management, and project team leadership, among other competencies.
Students pursue Information Systems Project Management education for employment in the project management industry. Target Industries include information systems, healthcare, construction, and development.
IS Project Managers earn an annual average salary of $105k. The project management industry exceeds $4 trillion in annual revenue and is expected to grow by 30% over the next decade, adding over 200,000 US jobs each year.
ISPM 610 IS Project Initiation
This graduate level course provides an introduction to information systems project management with specific attention to cost-benefit analysis, business case development, project selection, stakeholder identification, risk identification and the project charter.
ISPM 620 IS Project Planning
This graduate level course examines topics in information systems project management with specific attention to the work breakdown structure, resource planning, organizational charts in project planning, and the elements of project planning, communications planning, procurement planning, quality management planning, change management planning and risk management planning.
ISPM 630 IS Project Execution
This graduate level course examines topics in information systems project management with specific attention to obtaining and managing project resources, executing tasks in the project plan, implementing the quality management plan, change management, risk management, and leading the project team.
ISPM 640 IS Project Monitoring and Controlling
This graduate level course examines topics in information systems project management with specific attention to performance measurements, project control and performance metrics, cost analysis and variance trend techniques, risk identification and analysis.