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Berkeley Global
This course focuses primarily on pre-project planning activities—the process of identifying and translating business needs into project requirements. You learn how to launch project initiation, develop stakeholder management plans and conduct requirements analysis. You also learn to justify projects through ROI analysis, feasibility studies and a comprehensive business case. As a result, you gain an understanding of the project charter as the output of comprehensive initiation processes that then guide project planning and delivery.
The course ends with an examination of how to launch project planning, with a look at team building, developing project infrastructure and project-kickoff activities.
Prerequisites:
To succeed in this course, it is recommended that students first complete a foundational course in project management, such as Project Management BUS ADM X470, or have professional experience in the field of project management.
Learner Outcomes
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
- Produce portfolio-quality project initiation deliverables
- Define projects in terms of their business value and the importance of satisfying user requirements
- Lead project initiation efforts and business case development that culminate in a project charter
- Conduct a thorough stakeholder analysis that produces a stakeholder map, stakeholder register, RACI matrix, and a stakeholder management plan
- Conduct a requirements analysis that explores a wide range of elicitation techniques, especially a SWOT and gap analysis
- Create a requirements traceability matrix and project scope statement
- Demonstrate project feasibility in terms of technical requirements, ROI, legal or regulatory compliance, operational capacity, and schedule
- Define project governance
- Create a business case
- Produce a project charter
- Launch project planning activities
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Spring 2025 enrollment opens on October 21!