GEOG 584 - Geospatial Technology Project Management

Fall 2013, Section 201 - 3.0 Credits
Schedule Number 186994

Important Dates

Reg Period: 3/14/2013 - 10/14/2013
First Day of Class: 10/9/2013
End of Class: 12/19/2013

Course Description

Principles of effective project management applied to the design and implementation of geospatial information systems.

Strong writing skills are recommended for this course. If English is not your native language, it is important that you read additional information regarding English language proficiency before registering for this course.

Prerequisites

GEOG 583

Sample Course Syllabus

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Costs and Fees

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Remarks

By the end of this course, students will have devised a project plan from a scenario built upon a Philadelphia pole and pole attachment geodatabase project. The students will work through each of these components of the project plan in an organized and logical manner over the ten weeks of the course. Most weeks, students will complete some component that will be incorporated into their final project plan. Some weeks, however, students will do exercises or create documents outside of the project plan. There are five quizzes during the course, each worth ten points. These quizzes tend to be quantitative, and are applications of techniques covered in detail in the textbook.

The prerequisite for this course is waived.

 

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Material Requirements

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Material Title	Edition	Author	ISBN	Source
Information Technology Project Management	7th	Schwalbe, Kathy	9781133526858	MBS

Technical Requirements

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Software Requirements

Requires: There are no requirements to use a particular software package in this course. As you work on your course projects, you may choose to use Microsoft Project software, a package commonly used by project managers. A 120-day evaluation copy is included with a textbook for the course, Schwalbe's Information Technology Project Management. Appendix A of her book also offers a guide to using Microsoft Project. Additionally, the textbook's companion Web site (http://www.course.com/downloads/mis/schwalbe/appendixC.cfm) offers templates for project management documents in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project formats. The instructor will let you know what software packages students found most useful for completing particular assignments, but again the choice is entirely yours.

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