Syllabus

Course:
ENMA 604-Project Management
Spring 2005
Tuesday 7:00-10:00
Professor:
Dr. Rafael Landaeta
Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Management
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Contact Information and Office Hours:
Phone: (757) 683-6224 / (757) 683-4558
Fax: (757) 683-5640
E-mail: [email protected]
Office: Kaufman Hall, Room 241-H
Office Hours: Tuesday from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Other days and time please e-mail
me for an appointment.
Textbook:
Title: Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and
Controlling
Edition: 9th
Author: Harold Kerzner
Year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey
ISBN: 0471741876
Additional materials: articles and other material will be provided by the professor.
Course Overview:
This course explores the systems approach to the selection, design, execution,
control, evaluation, and termination of projects to meet project objectives and
customer expectations within allocated performance and resources constraints in
technology-based organizations. Basic tools and techniques of project management
are explored. Special emphasis is placed on project engineering, the nature of
projects, the project management system, and learning in projects. Upon completion
of the course, the graduate engineering students will have knowledge to design,
analyze, and execute a project. The goal of this course is to facilitate the knowledge
that will aid an engineer to successfully manage projects.
Course Objectives:
1. Understand and apply the fundamental tools and methods of project
management.
2. Develop knowledge of concepts and methods in the leadership of projects
from a systems perspective.
3. Perform conceptual design, planning, and scheduling for a technical project.
4. Develop knowledge for understanding, assessing, and resolving human,
technical and administrative issues for deployed projects.
5. Demonstrate capability in design, analysis, and evaluation of project
management systems in a technical environment.

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Course Approach:
Class periods will include lectures based on text and handout materials, class
discussion, assignments, and project. Class discussion will be on lecture material,
deliverables, and projects presentation and report. The course will be administered
using Blackboard (www.blackboard.odu.edu) as the communication media between
the students and the professor.
Course Requirements and Expectations:
The following requirements are considered necessary to successfully complete the
course:
Course Administration: This course is paperless. Class materials and submission of
assignments will be executed electronically. The students are expected to have the
capabilities (knowledge, skills, and tools) to use: e-mail, an internet browser, and
the operating system Windows. All students must have an active Old Dominion
University e-mail account to have access to the class materials through
www.blackboard.odu.edu. The students can login into blackboard using the e-mail
name (e.g., for my e-mail [email protected], the e-mail name is rlandaet). The
password is the same that the student uses to open the ODU e-mail. To request an
e-mail account contact the OCCS. For technical help call customer service 1-877348-6503 or 757-683-3192 or e-mail: [email protected]. Students are encouraged
to read Blackboards manual. This manual will be provided by the professor in the
first class.
Course Communication: E-mail communication between the students and the
professor must follows the following format:

E-mail: The subject of each e-mail delivery to the professor is expected to

follow the format: ENMA604_Last name_First Name_Subject. Example:
ENMA604_Landaeta_Rafael_When is the first class? E-mails that do not follow
this format will not be responded promptly.
Files: Each file submitted to the professor is expected to follow the format:
ENMA604_Last Name_First Name_Deliverable Number. Example for individual
assignments: ENMA604_Landaeta_Rafael_Deliverable 1. Example for group
assignments: ENMA604_Group 1_Deliverable 2.
Delivery Confirmation: The professor will confirm students/groups that a file
was received. If you do not receive a confirmation from the professor within
the next 3 days after the submission you need to contact the professor in the
4th day. Only the files that have been confirmed as received by the professor
will be graded.
Only the files sent through E-mail to the professor will be graded. Please DO
NOT hand hard/soft copies to the professor in class.

Class Preparation: For each class there is an assigned set of readings. Reading
assignments must be completed prior to class for students to (a) fully gain an apply
insights developed from the content of the learning modules and (b) to be able to
participate in the class discussions.
Project: Students are required to complete a project during this course either in
group of individually. Only in exceptional cases, students will be allowed to do the
project individually. This must be communicated to the professor before the 2nd
class. A survey will be posted in blackboard in which the students will let the
professor know his/her choice within the following 48 hours after the first class.

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The purposes of the project are to demonstrate understanding of project

management tools, as well as, to promote the creation and application of collective
knowledge.
What is desired is to create a plan of a project that includes 20(3) activities with
milestones and relationships to allow the groups to analyze the network.
The topic of the project can be either related to students work or related to any
other engineering associated initiative. I recommend the students to select a project
from which the group has easy access to its information. This class focuses on the
management part of a project not on the technical part, consequently, we are not
going to design a product or service in our project/class.
The groups can be created by the professor or by the students. I recommend that
the students within the same site coordinate the creation of their groups. The roster
of each group must be provided to the professor as soon as possible. A Work group
will be set by the professor in blackboard. Blackboard will function as an enabler of
the interaction among the members of the group project (e.g., share files, chat,
discuss topics).
There are four stages in the project. For each phase a project manager must be
elected by the group. All the members of a group are expected to be project
managers of at least one phase.
At the end of each phase there is a short presentation of each group lessons learned
of the phase. The project manager of each phase is expected to conduct the
presentation. Members of a group are expected to present only once during the
semester. The presentation cannot be more than 5 minutes. An additional 5 minutes
will be allowed for questions and answers. The presentation should focus on
communicating the key lessons learned about project management collected
throughout the phase. Students executing projects individually will not be required to
do a presentation.
Each member of the group will evaluate the performance of his/her group mates at
the end of each phase. Students will recommend the professor to keep or dismiss
group mates based on their contribution to the phase deliverable. If a student is
dismissed he/she will be expected to execute individually an entire project (i.e., the
four phases). In this case the project topic will be assigned by the professor.
The project manager of the group will be responsible for collecting and discussing the
evaluation with each member of the group before he/she sends it to the professor by
e-mail. Within blackboard the students can find the peer review form, an example,
and an outline of the peer review process.
Format: all the project reports must be written using MS-Word, double space,
Arial 12 point font, and one inch margin all around. The reports need to be
submitted by e-mail in one file to the professor using the policies stated in the
Course Communication section of the syllabus. Examples of project reports will be
provided by the professor. The project reports must contain the following items:
1. Cover page: Old Dominion University, Engineering Management and Systems
Engineering Department, Case study name, Last name and first name, Course
ID, and Semester. All centered using Arial 16 point, Bold, and single space.
2. Table of Contents with List of EXHIBITS.
3. Page number
4. Note: Students will have to report tables and exhibits that will be better view
having a landscape page orientation, consequently the document must be
formatted appropriately. Here is my recommendation. When you have a table
that it is wider than the rest of the document you can make one
single/specific page landscape and the rest of the document portrait. Here are

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the instructions (1) set the cursor in the top-left of the page you want to
format, (2) go to the top menu of MS-Word, (3) select File, (4) select Page
Set up, (5) Select Landscape orientation is that is what you need, (6) Select
in preview This point forward, the result is that the whole document will
change to Landscape, (7) go to the next page and set the cursor in the topleft of the page, (8) go to the top menu of ms-word, (9) select File, (10)
select Page Set up, (11) Select Portrait orientation, (6) Select in preview This
point forward, the result is that the whole document will change to Portrait
and you will have a single page as Landscape in it
Class Participation: Students and groups are expected to be active participants in the
course. Active participation includes raising questions, relating class material to their
experience through contributing to class discussions, providing insights to class
discussion topics, and completing weekly class assessments (Plan, Do, Study, Act).
Students are expected to read the assigned material for each week. These materials
include reading from the textbooks, articles, and the power point presentations for
each class. Articles and power point presentation will be available within the course
documents section of blackboard.
Organizational and Self-Application Tasks (OSAT): Throughout the semester
Organizational and Self Application Tasks quizzes will be given. The purpose of
these exercises is to have the student understand the course concepts through a
short & quick quiz. The OSATs will be administered through Blackboard.
Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA): With the objectives of continuous improvement and to
promote class discussions, students are required to answer the following questions
after each lecture and 48 hours before the next class:
What was the most important thing you learned today?
How can you use the topic in better understanding your work area?
If there was one thing the instructor could have done better during this class,
what was it?
Red Team Review: The objective of this exercise is to help each other to learn about
project management. Each project group need to review other project groups
actions and provide feedback and recommendations. The reviews will take place in
class during a specific time provided by the professor. The reviews are reciprocal.
Groups are free to select the group(s) to which they will like to do the red team
review. The basic guidelines of the red team review are:

Each group/student will have 60 minutes to review one project while their
project is being reviewed.
The review must be based solely on the audit checklist sections of each
deliverable.
The reviewer will assess how well a student or a group has covered the
section(s). This will be done assigning percentages for each section of the
audit checklist of the deliverable. Scale: 0%=Nothing was done; 25%=Need a
major effort to complete; 50%=Need some effort to complete; 75%=Almost
completed; 100%=No more work is needed.
Besides the percentage assigned, the reviewers will provide feedback on how
the section(s) reviewed can be enhanced from a project management stand
point not from a technical stand point. The feedback can be organized using
bullets grouped by each section reviewed.

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The reviewers need to submit the audit checklist with the percentage
completed for each section by a single e-mail directed to both the professor
and the groups/students 48 hours before the next class (i.e., after the red
team review).
Students doing the project individually and groups that do not have other
groups to share with in a distant site need to be prepared to share their work
and review other students work following the same guidelines and deadlines
than the groups.
The professor will distribute the project to be reviewed to each group/student
between 48 to 24 hours before the red team review class. If a group/student
fails to submit the deliverable to the professor by the deadline, a penalty of 5
points over the project deliverables grade will be imposed to the
group/student.

Academic Integrity:
The Old Dominion University honor system is in effect for all student work submitted
during the course. In effect, this stipulates that lying, cheating, or plagiarism are
violations of the honor system and will be subject to disciplinary action.
Conflict Resolution:
Any type of conflict with the course delivery and assignments must be informed in
advance to the professor. It is important to acknowledge the absence of the student
to a class at least 2 hours prior the class. If a student is called for participation and
the student has not acknowledged his absence to the professor before the class
his/her participation grade will be negatively impacted.
Evaluation:
(1) OSATs (short quizzes)
15%
(2a)Project (If do it in a group)
Average of Individual Contribution to the Group Project 15%
Deliverables
40%
Presentation
5%
(2b)Project (If do it individually)
Deliverables
60%
(3)Individual Participation
PDSAs
5%
Class Participation
20%
Grades Conversion:
A=100-93; A- =92-90; B+ =89-87; B=86-83; B-= 82-80; C+ =79-77; C=76-73;
C- =72-70; F =69 or below.
Tentative Course Schedule:
The following is the tentative schedule for the semester. This schedule may vary
depending upon the pace of the class. Also, additional mandatory reading material
might be provided by the instructor. Optional readings are noted with an asterisk.

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Class

Date

Module
1

5/9

2
3

Performance Appraisal and

Teams

Leadership

5/16

5/23

5/30

Conflict

Motivation

Presentations of Project
Deliverable No.1

Culture

10

Organizational Structures

11

Introduction to Project
Selection

12

Non-numeric and Numeric

Project Selection Models

13

Project Definition and Planning

14

Projects Stakeholder

6/6

6/13

16
17

10

11

Course Introduction and

Design
Introduction to Project
Management
Project Teams

15

Educational Objective

Introduction to Network
Scheduling
Network Scheduling
Techniques
Red Team Review No.1

6/20

6/27

7/4

7/11

7/18

18

Presentations of Project
Deliverable No.2

19

Precedence Diagramming and

Network Scheduling

20

Duration Reduction and Issues

in Project Scheduling

Assigned Readings for Class

Syllabus
Blackboard tutorial

Kerzner: TBA
Article: Fear of feedback
PMBOK Chp. 9.3*
NASA-APPL*
Kerzner: TBA
Article: Leadership that
gets results
NASA-APPL*
Kerzner: TBA
Article: The Causes of
Management Conflict
Article: Motivating Teams
NASA-APPL *
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Article: Understanding
your project org. character
Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.2.3*
PMBOK Chp.5.1 *
Kerzner: TBA

Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.5.2-5.5*
NASA-APPL*
Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.2.2, 9.1.3*
NASA-APPL*
Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK 6.1-6.2 *
Kerzner: TBA

Syllabus
Syllabus

Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.6.3-6.4
NASA-APPL*
Kerzner: TBA

There is not class (but OSAT No.2 is due)

21

Managing Project Budgets

22

Project Risk Management

23

Communication in Projects

24

Knowledge Management

25

Red Team Review No.2

26

Presentations of Project
Deliverable No.3

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Deliverables
for Class

Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.7.3*
NASA-APPL*
Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.11*
NASA-APPL*
Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.10*
NASA-APPL*
Article: Org. Learning
Practices in PM
NASA-APPL*
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Syllabus

PDSA

PDSA
Project
Deliverable
No.1
PDSA
Groups peer
evaluations
No.1 are due
5/31
PDSA
OSAT No.1 will
be posted

OSAT No.1 is
due
PDSA
Project
Deliverable
No.2 is due

PDSA
Groups peer
evaluations
No.2 are due
6/21
Red Team
Reviews No.1
are due 6/25
PDSA
OSAT#2 will
be posted

OSAT#2 is
due
PDSA
Project
Deliverable
No.3 is due

PDSA
Groups peer
evaluations
No.3 are due
7/19
Red Team
Reviews No.2
are due 7/23

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13

7/25

8/1

27

Project Control

28

Project Quality

29

Earned Value Analysis

30

Red Team Review No.3

31

Project Audits/Reviews

32

Presentations of Project
Deliverable No.4

Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.4.3, 5.5, 6.5,
7.4, 10.3.2 *
Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp.8*
Kerzner: TBA
PMBOK Chp. 7.4*
Syllabus
Articles: Validating
Technical Project Plans;
The Project Management
Audit
NASA-APPL*
Syllabus
N.A.

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Wrap up

PDSA
OSAT#3 will
be posted
Project
Deliverable
No.4 is due
Red Team
Reviews No.3
are due 7/29
Final PDSA
OSAT#3 due
Groups peer
evaluations
No.3 are due
8/2
Submission of
consolidated
project
deliverables
1+2+3+4 is
due 8/6

Note: (*) These are optional readings to further knowledge on PM.

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